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Informal Fallacies: 11 Argumentative Errors Worth Avoiding

A collection of informal fallacies, argumentative errors that put appearance over substance. Know thy true Scotsman and avoid the Pooh-Pooh.

A deep dive into the Feynman Technique, a method designed to learn through teaching. How can we upgrade it with a few teaching principles?

A collection of some of the most thought-provoking fables, parables and other stories with a moral. What do they mean to you?

A comprehensive guide on test-taking strategies. Succeed in assessments by seeing the world through your teacher’s eyes.

A reflection on the narrative technique known as Stream of Consciousness. How can the concept help us to make use of our messy thoughts?

I took the liberty of curating 21 handpicked aphorisms about life for you. How would you feel about becoming a budding aphorist yourself?

A listicle of nine linguistic oddities. Brain teasers that bend the rules of language for our entertainment – or confusion?

Join me in revisiting Paul Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement. Can it help us survive Twitter? And is name-calling ever okay?

A reflection on Yak Shaving, the process of doing a seemingly useless task that is nonetheless still connected to achieving your big goal.

A reflection on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a metaphor for an event that will in all likelihood definitely maybe happen.

Sometimes dramatic principles are most powerful when we ignore them. We find out how by looking down the barrel of Chekhov’s Gun.