Learning Inefficiency Problems When Notes Fly An explainer of learning inefficiency, opening with a professional who consumed three books, forty podcasts, and two courses in a quarter yet retained almost nothing applicable, and the roughly 370 b… EBEmir Baycan
Knowledge Management Project Ideas When Notes Fly A set of knowledge-management project ideas addressing the gap between information accumulated and knowledge actually used, opening with a researcher who had thousands of bookmarks but a retrieval pr… EBEmir Baycan
Software Engineering Career Outlook in 2026 When Notes Fly An honest assessment of whether software engineering is still a good career in 2026, arguing it remains among the highest-paying and most in-demand paths despite the 2022-2024 layoffs, which it frame… EBEmir Baycan
Is a College Degree Still Valuable in 2026? When Notes Fly Examine the return on investment of a college degree in 2026, considering earnings against student debt. EBEmir Baycan
Data Interpretation: Avoiding Common Pitfalls When Notes Fly A guide to interpreting data correctly, the reasoning layer that determines whether a finding is real and actionable rather than an artifact, distinct from analysis and visualization, opening with Jo… MSMelik Can Sariyer
Influence Without Manipulation When Notes Fly A guide to building influence without manipulation, opening with the gap in LinkedIn's data between the 78% of B2B buyers who want trusted-advisor salespeople and the 3% who find them trustworthy. It… EBEmir Baycan
Imposter Syndrome: Understanding Its Roots and Impact When Notes Fly An explainer of how genuine expertise develops, opening with Benjamin Bloom's five-year study of 120 world-class performers who were mostly unremarkable children, distinguishing experience from exper… EBEmir Baycan
Implicit Bias: Exploring Unconscious Prejudices When Notes Fly An explainer of implicit bias, attitudes operating largely outside conscious awareness that can diverge from explicitly held beliefs, opening with Greenwald's card-sorting insight that led to the Imp… EBEmir Baycan
The IKEA Effect: Why We Overvalue What We Build Ourselves When Notes Fly An explainer of the IKEA effect, the cognitive bias by which people overvalue objects they helped assemble or create regardless of actual quality, formally documented by Norton, Mochon, and Ariely in… EBEmir Baycan
How Vaccines Work: Immune Response Explained When Notes Fly An explainer of how vaccines work, opening with Jenner's 1796 cowpox inoculation and the principle that exposing the immune system to a harmless version of a pathogen prepares it to defeat the real o… EBEmir Baycan