No one ever thinks inside a vacuum, untainted by cultural and cognitive biases. Our beliefs and values are shaped by our life experiences and the thinking we do to make sense of these experiences. This thinking follows a finite set of possibilities, limited by experience and ignorance. Our upbringing plays a major role in how […]
Author Archives: Haider
The Biased Burden
I remember watching a Kuwaiti comedy sketch a long, long time ago that went something like this… A male employer was interviewing two women for a secretary job: one was a hopeless bimbo and the other was the closest human approximation to a troll. He desperately wanted to hire the bimbo, and so made the […]
The beginning…
Once upon a time, I was reading a wonderful book called Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, which introduced me to the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition. Reading about the Dreyfus model made me feel like a doofus, because I had thought of a very similar learning model a year earlier, but didn’t pursue the idea because I didn’t […]