Self-concordant goals
October 20, 2026
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Someone signs up for a professional qualification because it fits work they care about. A colleague signs up for the same course mainly to avoid…
Research-led explanations of human capacity, learning and technological change. Start with the foundations, then follow the evidence and related ideas as the Learning Hub grows.
Someone signs up for a professional qualification because it fits work they care about. A colleague signs up for the same course mainly to avoid…
A critical guide to the OECD’s 2025 screen-time poll, its well-being associations and causal limits.
A critical guide to the 1974 heuristics-and-biases paper, the conditions of its experiments and limits of judging real-world decisions from them.
A person wants to finish a report but keeps opening a distracting site. Another wants to eat differently and passes a tempting bakery on the way home.…
Human-centred technology is not technology that merely feels friendly. It is a development approach in which human needs, rights, capabilities, contexts, and consequences remain part of the system from problem definition through deployment and correction.
Verification can be treated as a repeatable sequence rather than a last-minute correction: pause, identify the claim and stakes, trace provenance, seek independent evidence, calibrate confidence, then decide what to believe or do. The sequence is an evidence-aware application, not a validated named protocol.
Michael Posner’s attention-network framework and the boundaries of its alerting, orienting and executive-control distinctions.
A 2025 CHI study of 319 knowledge workers found that confidence in generative AI was associated with less self-reported critical-thinking enactment and lower perceived effort, while workers described a shift from producing work to verifying, integrating and stewarding AI output. The study is important, but it is a survey of perceived practice, not a causal test of whether generative AI erodes critical-thinking ability.
A researcher records a large rise in high-frequency heart-rate variability during a calming exercise. The participant also breathes more slowly and…
Knowledge is what a person can understand, remember or explain. Capacity concerns what they can reliably perceive, select, regulate and do with that knowledge in the conditions where it matters. The distinction is useful, but the two are interdependent rather than opposing categories.