Bias

You met someone and disliked them on sight, for no reason you could name. Elsie Lincoln Benedict has a name for it, and it is not a flattering one. In How to Get Anything You Want she lays out three kinds of stored feeling that fire your reactions before logic arrives. Fixed fears, the scars from old pain. Fixed faiths, the wins that still warm you. And fixed fancies — the instant, inexplicable likes and dislikes that arrive whole, with no argument attached. ...

Your brain is a terrible time traveler. The Exponential Individuals Playbook names the bug: temporal discounting. We shrink the future down to almost nothing so the present can have what it wants right now. Tomorrow's version of you is a stranger, and we are not in the habit of doing favors for strangers. You can watch it run in real time. The snooze button. The cart at checkout. The "I'll start Monday" that has now been said about forty Mondays. Each one is the present striking a deal at the future's expense, and the future is not in the room to object. ...