- Baader–Meinhof phenomenon: tendency to notice something more often after becoming aware of it
- Cobra effect: an incentive to fix a problem makes it worse
- Dunning–Kruger effect: illusion of cognitive superiority
- Leidenfrost effect: droplets of water float on hot surface
- Mandela effect: false memories shared by multiple people
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I constantly forget which is which out of most of these.
- Betteridge’s law of headlines: headlines with a question can be answered “no”
- Brandolini’s law: the energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it
- Brooks’s law: adding people to a software project makes it take longer
- Conway’s law: system design tends to mirror the organisation’s communication structure
- Cunningham’s law: the best way to get the right answer is to post the wrong one
- Goodhart’s law: a metric that becomes a target is no longer a good metric
- Hanlon’s razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
- Poe’s law: satire can always be treated as sincere
- Sturgeon’s law: 90% of everything is crap
- Braess’s paradox: adding capacity to a road network can slow traffic flow
- Peter principle: employees are promoted to a level of incompetence
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