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Podcast: Modern Wisdom
Episode: #486 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 14 Mental Models To Understand Human Nature
Description: Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written another monstrous thread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's one of the best things I've read this year, so I just had to bring him on.Expect to learn why stupidity is more dangerous than evil, why most content has to appeal to midwits, why political debates are essentially mass-scaled ventriloquizism, how lower stakes lead to more vicious arguments, why the word retard is a strange choice as...