#38 Ali Almossawi: Thinking in Algorithms

Hello and welcome, I'm Shane Parish, and this is The Knowledge Project, this show that explores the ideas, methods, and mental models that help you expand your mind. Discover your curiosity and master the best of what other people have already figured out. Today's episode is a bit different than what we normally do. We're in the middle of summer, so I thought I'd experiment with a short version of our podcast. Normally our podcast ranges from anywhere 45 minutes all the way up into two hours. Today's show is gonna be a bit different. We're gonna cut it down to 15 minutes. A full unedited version is available for members of our learning community. If you're not a member, you can sign up at fs.blog slash tribe. Today's guest is Ali Almosai, the San Francisco based author of an illustrated guide to bad arguments and bad choices.

He's going to help us better understand our logical fallacies. Okay. Let's dive in. Mm. What ideas would you say you've kind of changed your mind on in the last few years that you maybe used to believe and you've updated or you you've significantly changed your algorithm for how you approach them? You know, I didn't re I uh when I first got into um uh publishing, I kind of fell into it because I I'd produced this um put together this website, uh Bad Arguments and and then we talked about how it might work as a

uh as a book and then I went ahead and printed it as a book. And I didn't realize that by shifting the medium uh from uh an a website to a uh uh a a book That the audience would change for that project and the expectations would change, and all of a sudden the the connections with people would would were different.

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