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54,302 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0d870-4ad3-712c-9a75-83ec5cb800b2", "title": "Why People Keep Paying for Subscriptions They No Longer Use", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-people-keep-paying-for-unused-subscriptions/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d870-4ad3-712c-9a75-83ec5cdee84a", "title": "Scalability: Why Doesn’t Adding Resources Always Increase Capacity?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/scalability-requires-the-whole-flow-to-grow/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T11:59:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d870-4ad3-712c-9a75-83ec5d02b976", "title": "Sustenesis Daily Briefing — 25 September 2026: China, Australia and the United States", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/sustenesis-observation-2026-09-25/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T11:40:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d870-4ad3-712c-9a75-83ec5df4cefe", "title": "Why Can “That’s Me” Mean “This Is My Stop”?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/thats-me-can-mean-this-is-my-stop/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T11:40:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d870-4ad3-712c-9a75-83ec5e6386d1", "title": "Clever Deception Is Inferior to Clumsy Sincerity", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/clever-deception-is-inferior-to-clumsy-sincerity/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T11:39:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d870-4ad3-712c-9a75-83ec5eccc5e0", "title": "Why Can a Melody Reveal the Seam When It Changes Hands?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-a-melody-can-reveal-the-seam-when-it-changes-hands/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T11:38:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d870-4ad3-712c-9a75-83ec5fa8da55", "title": "Tullah: Why Does One Small Town Have Two Centres?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/tullah-why-one-small-town-has-two-centres/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T11:38:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d870-4ad3-712c-9a75-83ec5fcd09c1", "title": "Why Did a Yo-Yo Have to Be Wound Carefully Before Every Throw?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-a-yo-yo-had-to-be-wound-carefully-before-each-throw/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T11:37:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d870-4ad3-712c-9a75-83ec60569cf5", "title": "Why Do Piano Black Keys Form Groups of Two and Three?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-black-keys-form-groups-of-two-and-three/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T11:36:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d870-4ad3-712c-9a75-83ec614dd2ea", "title": "“See How You Go” Means Try It and See What Happens", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/see-how-you-go-means-try-and-see-how-it-turns-out/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T11:35:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50e-fbec-721a-93b9-dc0bcdb6d005", "title": "Does a More Precise Score Make a Judgement More Objective?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/does-a-more-precise-score-make-a-judgement-more-objective/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T12:10:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50e-fbec-721a-93b9-dc0bce213510", "title": "Why Can Chocolate Develop a White Bloom?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-chocolate-can-develop-a-white-bloom/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T12:07:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50e-fbec-721a-93b9-dc0bcf1ece4d", "title": "Separation of Concerns: Why Should Related Questions Still Be Kept Apart?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/separation-of-concerns-keeps-different-questions-apart/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T12:05:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50e-fbec-721a-93b9-dc0bcf67e86d", "title": "Why Can a Silent Phone Seem to Vibrate in Your Pocket?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-a-silent-phone-can-seem-to-vibrate/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T12:02:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50e-fbec-721a-93b9-dc0bcfac588c", "title": "Can a False Belief Still Be Rational?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/can-a-false-belief-still-be-rational/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T11:59:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50e-fbec-721a-93b9-dc0bd0a2f2a7", "title": "Why Does Heated Milk Boil Over More Easily Than Water?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-heated-milk-boils-over-so-easily/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T11:56:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50e-fbec-721a-93b9-dc0bd14fc596", "title": "Starvation: Why Can Work Wait Forever While Resources Keep Moving?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/starvation-can-leave-work-waiting-while-resources-keep-moving/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T11:53:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50e-fbec-721a-93b9-dc0bd2342bc9", "title": "How Did One Sheet of Paper Become a Long Classroom Garland?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/how-folded-paper-became-a-long-classroom-garland/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T11:50:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50e-fbec-721a-93b9-dc0bd2e5a82c", "title": "Why Does a Grand Piano Lid Open at Different Angles?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-a-grand-piano-lid-opens-at-different-angles/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T11:47:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50e-fbec-721a-93b9-dc0bd360af92", "title": "AI Philosophy Observations | Missing Provenance Is Not the Same as Erased Provenance", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/ai-philosophy-observation-missing-provenance-is-not-erased-provenance/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T11:44:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-6842-7116-8433-64f7ed53dade", "title": "Why Can Moving in Sync Make People Feel Closer?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-moving-in-sync-can-increase-feelings-of-closeness/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:25:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-6842-7116-8433-64f7edc5c4e8", "title": "Does Changing Your Mind Show the Earlier Decision Was Irrational?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/changing-your-mind-does-not-make-the-earlier-choice-irrational/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:21:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-6842-7116-8433-64f7ee07bf8c", "title": "Why Does the Body Shiver in the Cold?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-the-body-shivers-in-the-cold/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-6842-7116-8433-64f7ee43aa06", "title": "Discoverability: Why Can an Existing Function Feel Absent?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/discoverability-makes-available-actions-findable/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:15:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-6842-7116-8433-64f7ef183eee", "title": "AI Technology Observations | 21 September 2026, 08:00", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/ai-technology-observation-2026-09-21-08/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:13:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-6842-7116-8433-64f7ef248c7d", "title": "“I Won’t Be a Minute” Means “I’ll Be Quick”", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/wont-be-a-minute-means-ill-be-quick/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:12:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-6842-7116-8433-64f7ef562bf3", "title": "A Great Way Is Not Confined to One Function", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/a-great-way-is-not-confined-to-one-function/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:09:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-6842-7116-8433-64f7efa58c34", "title": "Why Do Fast Repeated Notes Often Need Alternating Fingers?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-fast-repeated-notes-may-need-alternating-fingers/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:07:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-6842-7116-8433-64f7f03fa09e", "title": "Cunderdin: Why Did the Pumping Station Come Before the Town?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/cunderdin-why-a-wheatbelt-town-began-with-a-pumping-station/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:04:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-6842-7116-8433-64f7f05ca98d", "title": "Why Was a Pellet Drum Twisted Between the Palms?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-a-pellet-drum-was-twisted-between-the-palms/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:01:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c528-6df7-7067-baf8-4f9d6ddd1989", "title": "Why Do Two Reed Blades Vibrate Face to Face on an Oboe?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-two-reed-blades-vibrate-at-the-oboes-mouth/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T00:22:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c528-6df7-7067-baf8-4f9d6eb45160", "title": "“Let’s Play It by Ear” Means “Let’s Decide as Things Develop”", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/play-it-by-ear-means-decide-as-things-develop/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T00:19:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c528-6df7-7067-baf8-4f9d6f7d561c", "title": "The Human Fault of Being Blinded by One Partial View", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/one-partial-view-can-obscure-the-larger-pattern/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T00:17:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c528-6df7-7067-baf8-4f9d6fc09102", "title": "Why Can a Familiar Piece Falter When Someone Is Listening?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-a-familiar-piece-can-falter-when-someone-is-listening/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T00:14:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c528-6df7-7067-baf8-4f9d6ff05a0c", "title": "Kimba: Why Did a Grain Silo Become the Town’s Most Visible Canvas?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/kimba-why-a-grain-silo-became-the-towns-most-visible-canvas/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T00:12:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c528-6df7-7067-baf8-4f9d709227ed", "title": "How Did a Bottle Cap Race Along a Chalk Track?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/how-a-bottle-cap-raced-along-a-chalk-track/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T00:09:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c528-6df7-7067-baf8-4f9d70f38cbd", "title": "Why Do Piano Bass Strings Cross Over the Treble Strings?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-piano-bass-strings-cross-over-the-treble-strings/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T00:06:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c528-6df7-7067-baf8-4f9d71bc3de8", "title": "Why Do Groups Repeat Shared Information and Miss Unique Clues?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-groups-repeat-shared-information-and-miss-unique-clues/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T00:03:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c528-6df7-7067-baf8-4f9d721a268d", "title": "If You Are Often Late, Can You Still Blame Someone Else for Being Late?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/does-hypocrisy-cancel-the-standing-to-blame/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T00:00:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c528-6df7-7067-baf8-4f9d72d2ca32", "title": "Why Does a Drop of Dishwashing Liquid Make Pepper Rush Away?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-dishwashing-liquid-makes-pepper-rush-away/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T23:57:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-7edc-7074-b316-890431e91f53", "title": "Signal-to-Noise Ratio: Why Can More Information Make Judgement Harder?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/signal-to-noise-ratio-separates-useful-variation-from-interference/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T23:55:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-7edc-7074-b316-890432cffe95", "title": "Why Can Known Odds Feel Safer Than Unknown Odds?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-known-odds-can-feel-safer-than-unknown-odds/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T16:59:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-7edc-7074-b316-890432e8cc22", "title": "Can Public Rules Be Justified Only by Private Beliefs?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/can-public-rules-be-justified-only-by-private-beliefs/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T16:56:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-7edc-7074-b316-890433797580", "title": "Why Does a Rice Cooker Switch to Keep Warm Automatically?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-a-rice-cooker-switches-to-keep-warm-automatically/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T16:53:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-7edc-7074-b316-890433f7978c", "title": "Legibility: Why Must a Correct State Also Be Easy to Read?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/legibility-makes-relevant-state-easy-to-read/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T16:50:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-7edc-7074-b316-8904341e5d46", "title": "How Did a Button and Thread Become a Humming Spinner?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/how-a-button-and-thread-became-a-humming-spinner/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T16:47:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-7edc-7074-b316-89043481f9c2", "title": "Why Is a Violin’s Soundpost Held Without Glue?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-the-violin-soundpost-is-held-without-glue/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T16:44:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-7edc-7074-b316-89043499e5e5", "title": "Why Can Neuroscience Jargon Make an Explanation Seem Better?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-neuroscience-jargon-can-make-an-explanation-seem-better/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T12:31:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-7edc-7074-b316-89043545fc1d", "title": "Can Silence Be a Lie Without a False Statement?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/can-silence-be-a-lie-without-a-false-statement/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T12:28:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-7edc-7074-b316-8904354b3a48", "title": "Why Does a Warm Sparkling Drink Go Flat Faster?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-warm-sparkling-drink-goes-flat-faster/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T12:26:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-0c3b-73e9-bb00-f45989c0e0f8", "title": "Single Point of Failure: How Can One Small Part Stop a Whole System?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/single-point-of-failure-can-stop-a-whole-system/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T12:23:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-0c3b-73e9-bb00-f4598a9bd09d", "title": "“I Could Do with a Coffee.” Means “I’d Like One”", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/could-do-with-a-coffee-means-id-like-one/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T12:20:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-0c3b-73e9-bb00-f4598af26439", "title": "Knowing Is Not as Good as Doing", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/knowing-is-not-as-good-as-doing/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T12:18:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-0c3b-73e9-bb00-f4598bcf8981", "title": "Why Does a Recurring Wrong Note Need a Diagnosis First?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-a-recurring-wrong-note-needs-a-diagnosis-first/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T12:15:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-0c3b-73e9-bb00-f4598c353a81", "title": "York: Why Did a Farming Town Build Such a Grand Town Hall?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/york-why-a-farming-town-built-such-a-grand-town-hall/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T12:13:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-0c3b-73e9-bb00-f4598c5c537e", "title": "How Did a Coin Reveal Its Pattern Through Paper?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/how-a-coin-revealed-its-pattern-through-paper/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T12:10:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-0c3b-73e9-bb00-f4598cc68464", "title": "Why Does a Piano Need a Soundboard Beneath Its Strings?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-a-piano-needs-a-soundboard-beneath-its-strings/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T12:07:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-0c3b-73e9-bb00-f4598da44c0a", "title": "Why Can “Nine Winners” Feel Better Than a 10% Chance?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-nine-winners-can-feel-better-than-a-ten-percent-chance/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T08:23:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-0c3b-73e9-bb00-f4598dd2bae9", "title": "Must the Best Person Always Do the Most Moral Good?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/must-the-best-person-always-maximise-moral-good/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T08:20:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-0c3b-73e9-bb00-f4598e10532c", "title": "Why Can Hot Glass Crack When It Is Cooled Suddenly?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-hot-glass-can-crack-when-cooled-suddenly/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T08:17:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-64d9-72cc-9549-07c668fd3ecd", "title": "Bounded Rationality: Why Is the Best Choice Often Out of Reach?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/bounded-rationality-chooses-under-limited-information/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T08:14:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-64d9-72cc-9549-07c669d96d5e", "title": "AI Philosophy Observations | Helping Build a Successor Is Not Yet Self-Improvement", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/ai-philosophy-observation-building-a-successor-is-not-self-improvement/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T08:12:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-64d9-72cc-9549-07c66a002783", "title": "Why Is Silence Between Phrases Part of the Music?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-silence-between-phrases-matters/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T05:36:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-64d9-72cc-9549-07c66aeeb8c8", "title": "Does Seeing a Weapon Always Impair Eyewitness Memory?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/does-a-weapon-always-narrow-eyewitness-memory/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T05:34:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-64d9-72cc-9549-07c66b6cc0f5", "title": "Why Can Water Boil Below 100°C?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/why-water-can-boil-below-100-degrees/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T05:28:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-64d9-72cc-9549-07c66c19292c", "title": "Legibility: Why Can Clarity Still Leave Things Out?", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/legibility-makes-complexity-readable-but-loses-detail/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T05:25:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-64d9-72cc-9549-07c66ceb1c6f", "title": "AI Technology Observations | 20 September 2026, 14:00", "url": "https://geoffreychen.com/ai-technology-observation-2026-09-20-14/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T05:22:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-64d9-72cc-9549-07c66dd3a805", "title": "Sustenesis Daily Briefing — 20 September 2026: China, Australia and the United States", "url": 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