Fyre Festival: A Mentalist’s Perspective

Fyre Festival: A Mentalist’s Perspective

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard of the now infamous Fyre Festival. A joint venture with Ja Rule and delusional serial entrepreneur Billy McFarland, the music festival was created as PR for the Fyre music app, but quickly went up in flames through a variety of frauds and deceptions.  Promised luxury oceanfront…

Confirmation Bias: Do All Those People Really Agree With Me?

Confirmation Bias: Do All Those People Really Agree With Me?

As a college student, my writing 39C professor taught us to always question the source of our information. In a world where Facebook and Google know more about us than we know about ourselves (each company has a small book’s worth of information on our habits, desires, interests, and friends), it’s easy to make incorrect…

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