how to tell if you are smart — what they don’t tell you
telling whether you are smart is harder than it sounds because the test is administered by the same brain being graded. i have asked mine…
how to think faster and smarter — what they don’t tell you
thinking faster and smarter is the kind of phrase you see on a podcast cover next to a man with very white teeth. i tried it on a tuesday. i…
how to make your brain more intelligent — explained
a more intelligent brain, the listicle promised, in seven easy steps. i made it as far as step two before remembering the voicemail from dave…
how do you make your brain smarter — and i’m fairly sure
you make your brain smarter, supposedly, by giving it harder things to chew on. i gave mine a tax form and the productivity bro tweet of the week…
how do i make my brain smarter — what they don’t tell you
what they don’t tell you about making your brain smarter is that the brain is the thing being asked to do the making. it’s a little…
how can i become more smarter — the grammar holds
more smarter is not a phrase that survives a grammar check, and yet here we are, all of us, googling it at the rate of thousands per month, which…
how do i make myself smarter — and i’m fairly sure
the question of how to make myself smarter became urgent the morning of the procurement walkthrough, which is happening down the hall without me.…
how can i become a smarter person — i opened 47 tabs
the question of becoming a smarter person felt urgent enough that i opened forty-seven tabs about it. then i forgot which tab had the answer and…
anchoring bias meaning — and the first beer set the price
the first beer at mike’s bar was four dollars. every beer after that has, in my brain, also been four dollars, regardless of the receipt.…
