Need for Cognition: Understanding Thought Preferences When Notes Fly An explainer of need for cognition, the stable individual difference in how much people seek out and enjoy effortful thinking, tracing from Cohen, Stotland, and Wolfe's 1955 concept to Cacioppo and P… EBEmir Baycan
Monte Carlo Method: How Randomness Solves Complex Problems When Notes Fly An explainer of the Monte Carlo method, which solves hard problems by running many random simulations and observing the distribution of outcomes rather than computing an exact answer, opening with St… EBEmir Baycan
Mobile UX Principles: Designing User-Friendly Apps When Notes Fly An explainer of mobile UX principles, the discipline of designing touch apps for people who are in motion, multitasking, and frequently interrupted. It covers the fundamental constraints (small scree… MSMelik Can Sariyer
Mobile App Development: Tools and Best Practices When Notes Fly An explainer of mobile app development, opening with Instagram's two-person 2010 launch on a single EC2 instance. It covers the iOS and Android ecosystems and the numbers that matter for decisions, t… MSMelik Can Sariyer
Understanding Microaggressions: Definitions and Impact When Notes Fly An explainer of microaggressions, tracing the concept from Chester Pierce's coinage through Derald Wing Sue's taxonomy of microassaults, microinsults, and microinvalidations. It reviews the research… EBEmir Baycan
Mental Accounting: Why a Dollar Is Not Always a Dollar When Notes Fly An explainer of mental accounting, Richard Thaler's finding that people treat money differently depending on subjective categories rather than as fungible, opening with the blizzard-and-basketball-ti… EBEmir Baycan
Effective Learning Techniques Based on Science When Notes Fly A comprehensive guide to applying learning science in practice, built on how memory encodes, stores, and retrieves and the forgetting curve. It covers the evidence-based techniques, spaced repetition… EBEmir Baycan
What Is The Long Tail: How the Internet Changed What Sells When Notes Fly An explainer of the long tail, Chris Anderson's 2004 Wired thesis that the internet made it viable to profit by selling small quantities of many niche products rather than only hits, because distribu… EBEmir Baycan
The Lindy Effect: Aging and Robustness Explained When Notes Fly An explainer of the Lindy Effect, the principle that for non-perishable things like books, ideas, and technologies, life expectancy increases with age because survival is evidence of robustness, name… EBEmir Baycan
Learning Projects for Critical Thinking When Notes Fly A set of hands-on projects for developing critical thinking, opening with the 1998 CIA failure to predict India's nuclear tests, which stemmed from unexamined assumptions rather than missing informat… EBEmir Baycan