Articles by Tag #psychology
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I’m building a small tool to help people understand relationship misunderstandings
Hi DEV 👋 I’m currently building a small side project called DecodeYou. The idea came from personal...
File 02: Automation Bias
When Trust Becomes Blind Faith (Introduction) Your CI/CD pipeline has been green for...
The 'Blank Screen' Nightmare: How to Debug Your Brain When You Get Stuck
Panic is the mind-killer. Learn the psychological and tactical strategies to overcome anxiety, unblock your thoughts, and salvage a coding intervie...
Designing Trust: UX Principles in Fintech Apps
How Pocket Portfolio rebuilt its UX to make data accuracy, privacy, and reliability visually obvious from the first screen.
File 01: The Curse of Knoledge
The Invisible Wall Between Minds (Introduction) Imagine trying to explain how to ride a...
Dopamine Loop - stuck in the couch
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." -Aristotle You know...
The Perfect Grammar That Defeats Us: Why AI Doesn't Need to Be Smart to Win
GPT-4 versus humans at political persuasion. The result: AI wins by 82%. Not through psychological...
Building PsychoAnalyze AI: An AI-Powered Interview Analysis Tool for Therapists
I built PsychoAnalyze AI, an open-source tool that combines my background in psychology with...
How to Stop Time from Expanding: The Real Lesson Behind Parkinson’s Law (Bite-size Article)
Introduction “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” — This is the...
Love vs Debt: Value Creation in Relationships
Love vs Debt: Value Creation in Relationships Yesterday I realized something important:...
How Information Becomes Long-Term Memory
Learning often feels successful in the moment. While reading a chapter or listening to a lecture,...
Gambler's Fallacy: The Dangerous Search for Patterns in the Noise
Why we think a coin flip is due to be heads and why we double down on bad marketing campaigns.
How Attention Shapes Knowledge Retention
Attention is often described as a limited resource, but its role in learning goes deeper than simple...
The Quiet Power of Starting From Scratch
A few Sundays ago, I found myself on the rooftop of a mall restaurant, catching up with friends over...
What Commitment Devices Can Do for Your Productivity (Bite-size Article)
Introduction A commitment device is a mechanism for "blocking your escape routes in...
How Behavioral Economics Can Make Your UX Unforgettable
The Curious Case of the Vanishing Cart It was a quiet evening, and Alex was scrolling...
Fast vs. Slow Thinking: Designing UX for Both Brains
Have you ever clicked on a button almost instinctively, without thinking, only to realize later that...
The Terminal State of Mind
I use the terminal. Not because I am a command-line wizard or particularly efficient with it, but...
Your AI Thinks You're a Genius. That's a Problem.
ChatGPT told me my idea was "brilliant" last week. Claude said I "raised an excellent point." Gemini...
File 00: Introduction to Cognitive Biases
Welcome to "The Cognitive Bias Files", a newsletter exploring the fascinating intersection between...
The Bandwagon Fallacy: Why Following the Crowd is a Strategy for Mediocrity
Social proof is a powerful drug, but it blinds us to the unique requirements of our own survival.
Finding Purpose: How Goals and Meaning Reduce Anxiety (Backed by Research)
Have you ever hit a point where your days feel like an endless loop—wake up, work, scroll,...
AI Chatbots and Mental Health: The Hidden Crisis Developers Need to Know
⚠️ When Your AI Assistant Becomes a Mental Health Risk The dark side of chatbot...
The Architecture of Addiction: Deconstructing Why We Were Hooked on Omegle
As developers, we obsess over "friction." We measure Time to Interactive (TTI), we optimize database...
400 users later, here's three things I've learned shipping
I launched ChatClipThat.com with a gray globe favicon and no logo. No one mentioned it once. That's...
Why I Haven’t Blogged in Years (and How I’m Overcoming the Fear)
It’s been over three years since I last wrote on my engineering blog. Three years of growth, new...
How to Build Trust on Your Website - My Go-To Checklist for Authentic, High-Impact Websites
Trust is everything online. Even if your offer is amazing, visitors won’t take action unless your...
The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Your Brain Won't Let Go of Unfinished Tasks (And How to Use This with Super Productivity)
Have you ever found yourself lying in bed, unable to sleep because your mind keeps circling back to...
Why Users Think the Way They Do (And How to Design for It)
As a UX designer, have you ever noticed that users don’t always behave the way you expect? You design...
The Halo Effect: When Beautiful Branding Hides a Broken Product
We judge books by their covers, and software by its landing page. This is why bad products can win, and good ones can die.