Reminder for Hacker News readers to step outside more than once a month so you can realize this naturally instead of applying your booksmart brains to reinvent things that most people not glued to their screens already know.
We want to isolate a small chunk of a phenomenon and understand it really well, but in the process divorce it from its context.
We analyse cognitive performance in terms of a few isolated carefully selected variables rather than acknowledge that it is dependent many other variables present in its environment - physical, emotional, social
Good for developing expertise in a narrow domain, but perhaps not so good for developing a balanced worldview
It’s always valuable to reassess common knowledge. That is the heart of human progress.