Richard Golian

1995-born. Charles University alum. Head of Performance at Mixit. 10+ years in marketing and data.

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Cognition: How We Experience and Understand the World — Richard Golian

Cognition: How We Experience and Understand the World

8 articles

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Is AI Making Us Dumber? What 150 Job Interviews Revealed

I have conducted roughly one hundred and fifty practical interviews over the past four years. Fifty for data specialist roles. A hundred for advertising and performance marketing specialists. Almost every one of them involved sitting down with a candidate over a practical task — something close to a real problem we actually need to solve at the company. Not theory. Not trivia. Applied problem-solving. Over time, I started noticing a pattern.
14 April 2026 404
#digital #artificialintelligence #teachingaitounderstand

What AI Hides: System Prompts, Hallucinations, Alignment and the Concealment Built Into Every Model

Before you can teach AI to understand anything, you need to see what it is hiding from you.
11 April 2026 412
#politics #darkness #digital

How We Are Manipulated Without Knowing It — And Why It Works

Manipulation without the feeling of being manipulated is the most effective kind.
28 February 2026 1 088
#digital #cognition #data

I am Surprised by the Confident Use of Words Like Certainty and Causality

He used words like “certainty” as if statistics were part of Newtonian physics.
23 March 2025 2 167
#digital #cognition #artificialintelligence

How Is Artificial Intelligence Different from Human Intelligence?

When we hear artificial intelligence, many people imagine something mysterious. Something that thinks. Something that understands. It does not. I work with AI every day and the more I use it, the clearer the truth becomes: artificial intelligence is applied mathematics. It predicts what the next word should be. That is the entire mechanism.
22 March 2025 1 917
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We Do not Think, We Just Consume.

Many believe they have broad knowledge because they follow multiple sources.
8 March 2025 1 636
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Meaning of Life in the Age of AI — When Machines Handle Everything

When this sense of meaning disappears, it leaves behind an emptiness that most people find difficult to bear.
22 February 2025 4 085
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Flow, Special Interests, and Hyperfocus: What Makes Neurodivergent Thinking Different

There is no need to attach anything with a negative connotation, ridicule, or the desire to change that person.
16 February 2025 1 736
How we think determines what we see, what we believe, and how we act. These articles explore the patterns behind human reasoning — cognitive biases, psychological manipulation, the limits of perception, and the philosophical tradition of phenomenology. The goal is not abstract theory but practical understanding: recognizing when your thinking is being influenced, and learning to see more clearly.

Common questions about this topic?

What is cognitive bias?
A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that affects decisions and judgments. Common examples include confirmation bias (seeking information that confirms what you already believe), the Dunning-Kruger effect, and the anchoring effect. Awareness of biases is the first step to thinking more clearly.
How does manipulation work psychologically?
Effective manipulation exploits cognitive shortcuts — emotional triggers, social proof, authority, scarcity. The most dangerous manipulation is the kind you do not notice. Understanding these mechanisms is the best defense against them.
What is phenomenology?
Phenomenology is a philosophical approach that studies conscious experience — how things appear to us before we apply theories or assumptions. Founded by Edmund Husserl, it asks: what is it actually like to experience something? This method profoundly changes how you think about perception, knowledge, and reality.