Tip-Off #84 - What do you expect?
"'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)." - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Maslow's hammer, also known as the law of the instrument, is a cognitive bias characterized by an over-reliance on a well-known tool. The phrase comes from Abraham Maslow's observation: "I suppose it is tempting if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
The story of Naaman in the Old Testam…
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