Think clearly, learn faster, defend your mind.
ClearMind Atlas is a practical field guide to rational thought: how to form beliefs responsibly, how to learn effectively, and how to resist manipulation — from others and from your own cognitive blind spots.
Start Here
A small path that produces real gains fast.
- Define the claim. Make it precise enough to be wrong.
- Ask what would change your mind. Precommit to evidence.
- Separate feeling from inference. Emotions are signals, not proofs.
- Check base rates & incentives. Many “mysteries” vanish.
- Steelman. Attack the best version, not the easiest.
Quick Triage
Figure out what you’re looking at — bias, fallacy, or a tool.
Razors
Heuristics for pruning explanations and staying testable.
Occam, Hanlon, Chesterton’s Fence, Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword, and more.
Fallacies
Argument errors and manipulation patterns in the wild.
Strawman, Motte-and-Bailey, equivocation, moving goalposts, gish gallop…
Cognitive Biases
Predictable ways the brain misleads itself.
Confirmation, availability, anchoring, sunk cost, attribution errors, and more.
Thinking Tools
Techniques for truth-seeking, learning, and decision quality.
Steelman, pre-mortem, Fermi estimates, calibration, red teaming, and more.