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The Spotlight Effect
A stain on your shirt at 8am. By noon you have replayed every conversation wondering who saw it.
Apr 30 • Assim
Goodhart’s Law
The metric improved. The thing it was supposed to measure did not.
Apr 23 • Assim
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
He was the most certain person in the room. He was also the least qualified to be.
Apr 16 • Assim
The Sunk Cost Fallacy
Why do you keep going when you already know it is not working?
Apr 9 • Assim
The Broken Windows Theory
It never starts with something big. It starts with one window.
Apr 2 • Assim

March 2026

This is 1400
Weekly reads on human behaviour, and how Islam addressed the same patterns centuries before science gave them names.
Mar 26 • Assim
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