HeyJaredThe Critical Thinker
A newsletter for curious minds. Practical ideas about how to reason and think clearly.
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Bad Teeth (opens the original)
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Issue No. 61<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="563" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2L-X!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd89a4c5c-4c71-4928-b7ae-a6a6ed
Counterfactual Thinking (opens the original)
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Issue No. 60<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="664" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LHyG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b1dc0db-7550-46c4-9788-c27f2
Understanding is Built, Not Sent (opens the original)
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Issue No. 59This week’s topic brings together three ideas from different disciplines.Idea 1. I was reading a passage about film editing from the early 1900s in which a filmmaker is retelling the story of an experiment he and his collaborator (Kuleshov) once carried out. The two of them take a close-up shot of an actor with an expressionless face and then combine that close-up with shots of various other things.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch
Field Notes on Thinking Clearly (opens the original)
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Hello friends,I really enjoyed putting this together for you. We’ll do more of these. In book-related news, I’ve finally made progress on a manuscript from two years ago. I’m hoping to spend a solid six weeks’ worth of weekends on it this fall to get it into good shape.<div class="image2
It Was Obvious England Would Lose to Argentina (opens the original)
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Issue No. 58Paid subscribers, here is the keepsake I promised last time. It’s 58 chapters in three parts, edited to make the topics we’ve covered over the past three years easier to look up. It’s laid out as an actual book, which means if you print it double-sided and glue the spine, you’ll have a nice perfect-bound copy (as in the mockup below). All paid subscribers will receive an email later today with a link to the PDF.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.co
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