Cognitive Consistency Theory: The Need for Belief Alignment When Notes Fly An explainer of cognitive consistency theory, the family of theories holding that people are driven to keep their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors aligned, opening with Festinger and Carlsmith's 195… EBEmir Baycan
Cognitive Biases Everyone Falls For When Notes Fly A field guide to fifteen cognitive biases that predictably distort judgment, framed by Tversky and Kahneman's 1974 heuristics-and-biases work and the point that biases are the cost of processing info… EBEmir Baycan
Cognitive Appraisal Theory: Emotions Decoded When Notes Fly An explainer of cognitive appraisal theory, Richard Lazarus's framework holding that emotions arise not from events themselves but from the meanings people assign to them relative to their goals and… EBEmir Baycan
Fundamentals of Cloud Security Practices When Notes Fly An introduction to cloud security fundamentals, opening with the 2019 Capital One breach caused by a misconfiguration rather than an AWS flaw. Built around the shared-responsibility model, it covers… MSMelik Can Sariyer
Cloud Computing: Technologies and Operations Explained When Notes Fly An explainer of cloud computing, opening with the origin of AWS from Amazon's underutilized internal infrastructure. It defines the model and its characteristics, the three service models (IaaS, PaaS… MSMelik Can Sariyer
Principles of Clear Writing for Effective Communication When Notes Fly A guide to the principles of clear writing, explaining why clarity is hard (the curse of knowledge, the reader's limited cognitive budget) and why brevity is not the same as clarity, with Warren Buff… EBEmir Baycan
Choice Overload: When More Options Produce Fewer Decisions When Notes Fly An explainer of choice overload, the finding that too many options can reduce decisions and satisfaction, anchored in Iyengar and Lepper's 2000 jam study where a 6-variety display produced far more p… EBEmir Baycan
Career Risk Management When Notes Fly A guide to career risk management, opening with Silicon Valley Bank's 48-hour collapse and the concentration risk it exposed for employees who had staked their identity, network, and savings on one i… EBEmir Baycan
Choice Architecture: Designing Decisions for Impact When Notes Fly An explainer of choice architecture, the practice of designing how options are presented to influence decisions without restricting freedom, opening with Thaler and Wansink's cafeteria experiment whe… EBEmir Baycan
Chesterton's Fence: Importance of Understanding Change When Notes Fly An explainer of Chesterton's Fence, the principle that you should not remove a constraint until you understand why it was put there, illustrated by Mao's Four Pests Campaign in which eradicating spar… EBEmir Baycan