The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.