How to use AI to generate diverse and useful perspectives

by Ross Dawson | Jan 4, 2024 | Insights

One of the most powerful ways to improve our thinking is to bring in different and diverse perspectives. Ideally we can get that input from a range of people with varying demographic, experiential, and cognitive viewpoints. However that is not always possible. While...

Creating custom GPTs for news and information scanning

by Ross Dawson | Dec 3, 2023 | Insights

I find it incredible that well into the 2020s the news filtering services available are really not particularly good. Generative AI is very promising in helping us with information scanning and filtering, especially in tailoring our feeds to precisely what we want and...

The neuroscience of dopamine and social media dependence and how to overcome it

by Ross Dawson | Feb 1, 2023 | Insights

Anna Lembke is a Professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of Dopamine Nation. This book explores “new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain.” The video below is an enlightening...

Applying Bayesian thinking for filtering information, deeper insight, and better decisions

by Ross Dawson | Jan 23, 2023 | Insights

Through our lives we build mental models of the world that we apply in all our interactions and decisions. There are three major problems with this: No mental models are right, some are just more useful than others. This means that however good our mental models are,...

Future scenarios: 3 examples to help you filter information and make sense of the world today

by Ross Dawson | Jan 19, 2023 | Insights

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