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A Dirty Dozen (Thinking Principles)

How I process information: a dozen principles. This piece builds on the NY Times Disinformation article and expands the principles I apply when processing information.

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"Any Figure That Looks Interesting or Different Is Usually Wrong"

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"If Evidence Against a Hypothesis Cannot Exist, Then It's Not a Hypothesis but a Belief"

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"Dogma Is the Enemy of Learning and Curiosity Is the Defence"