Critical-Thinking

My uncle is intelligent, educated, and successful. He runs a business, reads extensively, and can hold sophisticated conversations about history, economics, and technology. He also believes: COVID-19 was created in a lab as a bioweapon The 2020 election was stolen A global elite controls world events through secret organizations Vaccines contain tracking microchips Climate change is a hoax to implement global government When I try to discuss evidence, he responds with: ...

I was reading a psychology paper that promised to change how I thought about willpower. The study claimed that ego depletion—the idea that willpower is a limited resource that gets exhausted—had been proven through rigorous experiments. Hundreds of studies supported it. It was taught in psychology courses. It was in textbooks. I built my productivity system around this concept. I scheduled important decisions for the morning. I avoided making choices when I was tired. I believed willpower worked like a muscle that could be depleted. ...

“I’m an INTJ, so I prefer working alone. That’s just how my brain is wired.” I’ve heard variations of this hundreds of times. In job interviews. In team retrospectives. In dating profiles. In therapy sessions. Myers-Briggs (MBTI), Enneagram, DiSC, StrengthsFinder—personality tests are everywhere. Companies use them for hiring. Therapists use them for counseling. People use them to explain their behavior, predict compatibility, and justify their preferences. But here’s the uncomfortable truth I’ve discovered after diving deep into the research: ...

I used to think Tailwind CSS was terrible. Not because I’d used it extensively. I’d tried it for maybe an hour, felt uncomfortable, and decided it was “just inline styles with extra steps.” Then I spent the next six months seeing only evidence that confirmed my belief: Blog posts criticizing Tailwind? Bookmarked and shared. Tweets praising Tailwind? Scrolled past or found reasons to dismiss them. Projects struggling with Tailwind? “See, I knew it was problematic!” Projects thriving with Tailwind? “They would’ve been fine with CSS modules.” I wasn’t evaluating Tailwind objectively. I was collecting ammunition to defend a conclusion I’d already made. ...