Spencer Greenberg

For many years, I’ve thrown social experiments as part of a group I founded, called Ergo.

This piece was first written in 2017, and first appeared on my website on July 1, 2026 This is an attempt to find out.

We often talk as though we are in direct contact with reality – as though our eyes show us the world, and our minds read off the facts.

I was disheartened to discover how many people either never learned the basic mental models or learned garbled versions of them.

An issue I have with some claims about “nondual” meditation: some meditators say that they achieve a state of non-duality where they see through the “illusion of the self” and then claim something like “there is no self”.

We seem to be living in an age of gurus.

I think that people tend to have a lot of misconceptions about the legal system (in the US, at least).

Correlations provide a very useful, quick way to summarize the relationship between two things (as a single number between -1 and 1).

It’s fascinating how, with a slight adjustment to our focus and perspective, we can enjoy a positive moment more, which means more enjoyment in our lives at essentially no cost (other than the effort of learning and practice).

A lot of psychological terms don’t mean what people think they mean (at least, not according to psychologists).