What's happening people? Welcome back to the show, my guest today is Gwynda Bogle. He's a programmer and a writer.

Gwynda is one of my favorite Twitter follows. He's written yet another mega thread exploring human nature cognitive biases

mental models status games crowd behavior and social media and it's fantastic and

today we get to go through some of my favorites

expect to learn why our mental model of the world assumes that people are just like us, why narcissists

tend to inject themselves into every story, no matter how unrelated or tenuous, the role of post-journalism in a world of fake news, why we navigate

the world through stories and not statistics or facts, why people specialize in things that

they are actually bad at and much more. These are some of my

favorite episodes they absolutely fly by they're so much fun for me and the

guests to do and Gwynder just right and thinks all the time and then I grab

him and I drag him in front of a camera and I force him to speak to me for two hours and

then he runs away for another four months and then we do it again and that's kind of his sort of

hibernation cycle thing and it's great and I'm not going to stop and I really hope

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