The neuroscience of dopamine and social media dependence and how to overcome it

by Ross Dawson | Feb 1, 2023 | Insights

Anna Lembke is a Professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of Dopamine Nation. This book explores “new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain.” The video below is an enlightening...

Applying Bayesian thinking for filtering information, deeper insight, and better decisions

by Ross Dawson | Jan 23, 2023 | Insights

Through our lives we build mental models of the world that we apply in all our interactions and decisions. There are three major problems with this: No mental models are right, some are just more useful than others. This means that however good our mental models are,...

Future scenarios: 3 examples to help you filter information and make sense of the world today

by Ross Dawson | Jan 19, 2023 | Insights

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Eileen Clegg on visual journalism, archetypal languages of shapes, learning visual language, ancient symbols, and shared frameworks (Ep41)

by Ross Dawson | Nov 30, 2022 | Podcast

“I think the research will tell us now that the ancient people probably used art and symbols before language. It is something that we all know instinctually because of the world around us. It’s visual. If you situate ideas in something physical, it stays...

Greg Satell on writing daily, building your own ideas, seeking different perspectives, and conceptual models (Ep40)

by Ross Dawson | Nov 23, 2022 | Podcast

“There’s the experience, what it is we take in the information, and then there’s the output, which can come in many forms just in talking, thinking or writing, and so on. The writing is crystallizing the ideas, which can be a process and come out...