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How the Mind Decides What to Notice
Attention is a competition. What gives your message a clear advantage?
Mar 18
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Lee LeFever
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The Science of Attention (Video + Text)
How does the mind select what gets our attention?
Mar 11
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Lee LeFever
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The Limits of Attention at the Doctor's Office
Gauntlet Part 1: Why does some advice lead to change while other advice fades away?
Mar 4
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Lee LeFever
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Introducing: The Gauntlet
A new series that unravels why ideas live and die while moving through the mind
Feb 25
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Lee LeFever
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How the Mind Translates What You Experience
A brief explanation of the limits of the human mind and how it processes information from the world around you.
Feb 17
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Lee LeFever
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Inside the Sensory Bubble
An essential way to think about crafting explanations for others
Feb 4
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Lee LeFever
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The Baseline Problem
Explanations require a shared understanding of what is real. And that's the problem.
Jan 28
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Lee LeFever
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What Happens in the Mind When We Explain
Understand a big idea from cognitive science on the mind's role in explanation.
Jan 21
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Lee LeFever
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I Now See What Was Missing
How brain science changed how I think about the skill of explanation
Jan 14
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Lee LeFever
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The Science of Explanation
Notes on the future of this newsletter and my professional life (2 minute read)
Jan 6
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Lee LeFever
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Where this is Going
An epiphany that led to new directions (and results from the poll)
Dec 9, 2025
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Lee LeFever
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Which Dinner Party Person Are You?
An analysis of each party attendee and a quick and anonymous poll.
Nov 26, 2025
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Lee LeFever
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The Science of Explanation
Why explanations succeed or fail, and what science reveals about how minds process ideas. By Lee LeFever, author of The Art of Explanation.
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