Hacker News with Generative AI: Thinking

The Compound Interest of Small Ideas (chrbutler.com)
When it comes to thinking, we’ve been sold a high-risk investment strategy. Our cultural narratives around innovation celebrate the breakthrough, the paradigm shift, the disruptive, revolutionary * concept that changes everything overnight.

Innovation, Ideas, Thinking, Creativity

5 points by delaugust 12 days ago | 0 comments

On thinkers and doers (2022) (strangeloopcanon.com)
Why we might need something like tenure for many more people, to cultivate more thinkers in a doer's world

Academia, Work Culture, Thinking, Innovation

55 points by andrewrn 12 days ago | 44 comments

Ask HN: Best books written on “How to think”? (ycombinator.com)
I feel like talking about how to think is going to be a bigger topic of discussion going forward now that we have AI, and dependence on software is really going to the next level — so since I've always gotten such amazing recommendations on HN, I had to ask this here

Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, Books, Recommendations

17 points by r_singh 50 days ago | 17 comments

Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking (2020) (psyche.co)
Talking out loud to oneself is a technology for thinking that allows us to clarify and sharpen our approach to a problem

Cognitive Science, Psychology, Thinking, Problem Solving

26 points by yamrzou 95 days ago | 0 comments

Fake thinking and real thinking (joecarlsmith.com)
“There comes a moment when the children who have been playing at burglars hush suddenly: was that a real footstep in the hall?”

Thinking, Philosophy, Cognition, Psychology

88 points by surprisetalk 114 days ago | 18 comments

Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking (quantamagazine.org)
David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.

Mathematics, Education, Thinking

669 points by sonabinu 184 days ago | 402 comments

Mathematical Thinking Isn't What You Think It Is (quantamagazine.org)
The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.

Mathematics, Education, Thinking, Psychology

66 points by isaacfrond 186 days ago | 13 comments

Writing is not the same as thinking (greyenlightenment.com)
The reason so many people have trouble writing is that it’s fundamentally difficult. To write well you have to think clearly, and thinking clearly is hard.

Writing, Thinking, Cognition

5 points by paulpauper 200 days ago | 0 comments

Associative tools, thinking, and creativity: On augmenting creativity (thelastwave.substack.com)

Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, Tools, Thinking

96 points by johanam 291 days ago | 4 comments

How to Make Better Decisions with Second-Level Thinking (nesslabs.com)

Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, Thinking, Psychology

4 points by pmzy 295 days ago | 1 comments

It's too quiet here – I can't think. (2008) (tau.ac.il)

Quietness, Thinking, 2008

6 points by yamrzou 313 days ago | 0 comments

Tools for Better Thinking (untools.co)