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  • Clever chess tactics that were not what they seemed · Pittsburgh Chess Clubchesspsychology · Nov 30, 2015
  • What unexpected life lessons have you learned from your father? · fatherpsychology · Jun 11, 2015
  • Why I have never considered using a treadmill desk · treadmillexercisepsychologymultitasking · Jun 10, 2015
  • Yes, I want my writing to be dated! · writinghistoryDisquscommentsblogpermalinksredirectpsychologyHaskell · May 31, 2015
  • Report on my second day of Stoic Week 2014: mindfulness · philosophyStoicismStoic WeekexercisemeditationmindfulnesspsychologychessPittsburgh Chess Club · Nov 25, 2014
  • Ransoms, hypocrisy, and bourgeois virtues · philosophyethicspsychologyhypocrisytruth · Nov 14, 2014
  • My predictions after Carlsen and Anand are tied after round 4 of the World Chess Championship · chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan Anandpsychology · Nov 12, 2014
  • SorryWatch: good and bad apologies · psychologyapologies · Nov 12, 2014
  • Understand and use motivation contagion: everyone matters · psychology · Nov 9, 2014
  • Smart versus unpredictable people: whom do you prefer? · psychologyTwitterindependence · Nov 8, 2014
  • My predictions and hopes for the 2014 Carlsen-Anand world chess championship rematch · chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan Anandpsychology · Nov 6, 2014
  • Some good science-based reading for Election Day, whether or not you voted · politicsvotingpsychologysociologyeconomics · Nov 4, 2014
  • How I avoid demotivating myself away from voting · politicsvotingPittsburghpsychology · Nov 1, 2014
  • Win ugly or lose pretty: do you agree? · politicspsychologycognitive bias · Oct 31, 2014
  • What does it mean that I've never liked the "Mona Lisa" painting? · Leonardo da VinciMona LisaartpsychologyVincent van GoghexpressionismEmil Nolde · May 9, 2014
  • Stop limiting yourself by labeling yourself left or right brained · psychology · Dec 12, 2013
  • Geeking out at the annual CMU psychology holiday party: beauty and selling out · Carnegie Mellon Universitypsychologymathematics · Dec 2, 2013
  • Power and the AOL public firing · psychology · Aug 13, 2013
  • Back to what running is really about for me · runningexercisePittsburgh MarathonPittsburghFrick Parkpsychology · May 9, 2013
  • Pittsburgh Chess Club Championship 2013, Round 2: surviving time trouble · chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubpsychologySicilian Defense · Jan 23, 2013
  • How the best player won the last Pittsburgh Chess Club Tuesday night tournament · chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess Clubpsychology · Jan 15, 2013
  • Round 6 of Pittsburgh Chess Club tournament: playing pragmatically · chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubpsychologyNimzo-Indian Defensesick · Dec 18, 2012
  • Round 5 of Pittsburgh Chess Club Tournament: psychology of losing another won game · chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubpsychologySicilian Defense · Dec 11, 2012
  • Déja vu in chess: recognize this Sicilian pattern? · chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubSicilian Defensepsychology · Sep 15, 2012
  • Ignoring branding: the double-blind test · psychologymarketingmusicwineviolin · Jan 3, 2012
  • The real reason for the CoffeeScript/JavaScript flame war · CoffeeScriptJavaScriptprogrammingsyntaxpsychology · Nov 6, 2011
  • When is something overpriced? 36 examples · economicspsychology · Oct 28, 2011
  • Success Always Starts With Failure · bookspsychology · Oct 9, 2011