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Robert Hamill

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    How We Think: Live on Substack

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    Trump Escapes until November
    Government

    Trump Escapes until November

    Robert Hamill 14 Jul 202030 May 2022Leave a comment

    Trump fires opponents, pardons acolytes, and buys favors.

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    Walk on the Wild Side
    Craft

    Walk on the Wild Side

    Robert Hamill 4 Jul 202028 Nov 20232 Comments

    A journey into a mysterious world. Boulders that moved became deer.

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    Covid-19 MD and GA new cases
    Society

    Covid-19 MD and GA new cases

    Robert Hamill 23 Jun 202030 May 2022Leave a comment

    States may not accept mask and distancing guidelines until their hospital systems are nearly overwhelmed.

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    First Home
    Sci Fi

    First Home

    Robert Hamill 21 Jun 202029 May 2022Leave a comment

    They would follow tracks in the snow as soon as the Sun God lightened the morning sky.

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    Virtual Reality during Lockdown
    Home-Non Non-Fiction

    Virtual Reality during Lockdown

    Robert Hamill 17 Jun 202030 Dec 2022Leave a comment

    VR provides an escape route when lockdown has deadened my senses.

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    Gabby
    Patapsco Days

    Gabby

    Robert Hamill 15 Jun 202011 Aug 2023Leave a comment

    Gabby, you shouldn’t worry about things you can’t control.

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    Complicated Logic
    Tales of Cubicle and Home

    Complicated Logic

    Robert Hamill 8 Jun 20206 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    I'll buy whatever I want. Stop using complicated logic against me. It's unfair.

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    Non-Logical Influences
    Mental Aspects Society & Culture Thought Modes

    Non-Logical Influences

    Robert Hamill 7 Jun 202028 Nov 20231 Comment

    The shadow of the leader is not a logical force, but social force.

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    Fundamental Attribution Error and Impact
    Mental Aspects Thought Modes

    Fundamental Attribution Error and Impact

    Robert Hamill 4 Jun 202022 Sep 20251 Comment

    For ourselves, we consider non-personal causes. For others, we know nothing of their daily life, so we blame their character.

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    Lockdown GDP Decline & Steps for Reopening
    Economics

    Lockdown GDP Decline & Steps for Reopening

    Robert Hamill 6 May 202030 May 2022Leave a comment

    Lockdown costs 50% of our GDP, we are using our savings and borrowing from the future. The state governments need to further pick up the…

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    The brain works with almost matches, not exact matches.

    • Dare We Change?
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      Dare We Change?

    • Boomer…Sees the Light
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      Boomer…Sees the Light

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    Measure of Daily Life
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    Measure of Daily Life

    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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      Sneaking a Cig

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      Vacancy

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      Unexpected

    How Do We Think

    Visit Substack to Delve into How We Think

    We explore how biological needs give rise to emotion, emotion forms associative patterns, and language both reflects and reshapes our outlook. Discover how the mind weighs emotion against logic in shaping behavior.
    Each step rests on the brain’s All-or-Nothing firing, where near matches are treated as exact— and abstraction gives rise to emergent insight.

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    War Powers Act
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    War Powers Act

    Updated Jun 25, 2025 President Trump’s recent decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities—without congressional authorization or approval—has once again stirred the unresolved tension at the…

    • Failure of Old Economic Solutions
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      Failure of Old Economic Solutions

    • The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street
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      The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street

    • Morality. Absolute or Relative
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      Morality. Absolute or Relative

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      Electricity’s Dark Side: Lessons from the Past

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)