How Our Members Run a Good Discussion (and Keep It Kind)
Disagreement is the point of a community like this one. Here is how the best threads on the site manage to argue hard and stay warm.
By Site Admin · Thursday, Sep 24
A Reading List for People Who Don't Have Time to Read
Not a list of books. A list of ways to read when your days are already full, collected from members who manage it anyway.
By Site Admin · Saturday, Sep 5
Why Explaining Something Badly Is the Fastest Way to Learn It
You do not have to understand a subject before you explain it. Explaining it, clumsily and in public, is how the understanding arrives. A note on the single most useful habit on this site.
By Site Admin · Tuesday, Aug 18
Five Questions to Ask Before You Believe a Statistic
Numbers feel like facts. Most of them are arguments wearing a lab coat. Here are the five questions our members run through before a figure earns a place in their thinking.
By Site Admin · Monday, Aug 3
How to Think Clearly When Everyone Has an Opinion
A practical guide to thinking for yourself when every feed is full of confident answers: write the question, strip the claim, and name what would change your mind.
By Site Admin · Thursday, Jul 23
What 1,000 Shared Lessons Taught Us About Learning
We read a thousand lessons members shared in the feed. Here is what they have in common, and what it says about how curious people actually learn.
By Site Admin · Sunday, Jul 19
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