The experience of time’s passage often feels subjective, colored by expectation and engagement, as articulated in the familiar phrase, “A watched pot never boils.” While common sense suggests that keeping a close eye on progress can distort our perception of its pace, recent scientific...
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Watching progress unfold, especially in modern workplaces driven by metrics and surveillance, can have unexpected psychological consequences—a fact illuminated by a phenomenon now known as the "monitoring frequency effect." This effect, rooted in decades-old folk wisdom like the adage “A watched...
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Amara’s Law claims we wildly overestimate technology’s impacts in the short term and epicly underestimate them in the long term—AI is currently doing its best to validate both sides of this paradox. On one hand, hype-mongers assure us that prompt engineering will soon be a more marketable skill...
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