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Tag: thinking-fast-and-slow

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The Background Brain: Why Boredom Makes Ideas

📅 July 13, 2026 ⏱️ 8 min read

Some of my best ideas came from stopping work, not doing more of it. Learning How to Learn's diffuse mode, Kahneman's System 1, and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity all describe the same mechanism: the mind does its best creative work in the background, so past a point more hours make creative output worse, not better.

The Bicycle of the Mind: Fast, Slow, and Automatic Thinking About Agents

📅 July 03, 2026 ⏱️ 6 min read

Kahneman's two modes of thinking (fast System 1 and slow System 2) map onto learning to ride a bicycle. Attention gives way to automaticity, and that same arc is a methodology for thinking about agents, leverage, and engineering systems.