As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by Russian programmer Alexey ...

Carol was deeply disappointed. She had hired someone she thought would be a superstar for her team—the peanut butter to her jelly—only to face one difficult interaction after another. It ...

The types of problems you want to attack with AI are the opposite. The naive way you would use AI is to feed it the most difficult problem that we have in mathematics.

Then we get to Pessiland, where many problems are hard, but most puzzles aren’t. Almost any problem that I make up where I know the solution, you’re going to be able to solve it too. All of these ...

Start with trust and end with speed.May 22, 2024 When it comes to solving complicated problems, the default for many organizational leaders is to take their time to work through the issues at hand ...

Solving hard problems changes the way you think and look at the world. Pattern recognition: Make the gears mesh. I’ll take an analogy and compareproblem solving to a system.

The hard problem of consciousness has framed consciousness studies for a generation. This blog explains what the hard problem is and why it needs to be split into two very different problems.