Levi Kavan

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Levi Kavan writes about economics, labor, and technology for readers who want real answers instead of slogans. His work draws on political economy, labor history, and the experiences of workers navigating systems designed to keep them too busy to ask uncomfortable questions.

Before writing full-time, Levi spent years in workplaces where he saw firsthand the gap between what economics textbooks promised and what actually showed up in people's paychecks. That experience convinced him the most important political ideas were being explained badly, or not at all.

He's the author of How To Be a Democratic Socialist, Democratic Socialism, Explained, and Managed by Machine. His writing has been called "rigorous but actually readable" by people who ex
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Why We Mistake Confidence for Competence

David Dunning and Justin Kruger’s research on metacognition revealed something counterintuitive: people who know the least about a subject are often the most confident in their assessments. They lack the knowledge to recognize what they don’t know. This phenomenon, now known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, explains a wide range of human behavior, from pol…

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