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When Notes Fly publishes source-backed guides on how people think, learn, and work, written to be clear without dumbing down.

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The Anchoring Effect: How the First Number Shapes the Rest The anchoring effect explained through Tversky and Kahneman's wheel experiment, selective accessibility, courtroom and pricing examples, and how to fight it. Jul 9, 2026 Satisficing vs Maximizing Explained Satisficing settles for good enough while maximizing chases the best. Learn the costs of each, when to use them, and how to decide how to decide. Jul 6, 2026 Hick's Law: Why More Choices Slow You Down Hick's Law explained: how decision time grows logarithmically with the number of choices, its information-theory roots, design uses, and where it breaks down. Jul 3, 2026 The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach The curse of knowledge explained through Newton's tapper experiment, chunking, the expert blind spot, and practical ways to recover the beginner's perspective. Jul 1, 2026 Goodhart's Law: When a Measure Becomes a Target Goodhart's Law explained through its origin in monetary policy, Strathern's famous phrasing, the four flavors of Goodhart, surrogation, reward hacking, and how to defend against it. Jun 22, 2026 The Spacing Effect: Why Cramming Fails and Spaced Practice Wins The spacing effect explained through Ebbinghaus's original work, the Cepeda meta-analysis, and Bjork's desirable difficulties, with a practical guide to spaced study. Jun 22, 2026

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