What is Mind In Beta?

Mind in Beta is a home for curious minds under construction.

It’s a place where psychology, AI, neuroscience, and personal growth intersect not in polished form, but in messy, evolving drafts. The kind where questions matter more than credentials, and self-experiments are fair game.

Whether you're into analyzing your habits, decoding leadership theory, or figuring out how large language models (artificial intelligence) might replace your job, this blog is for you. It's part learning journal, part philosophy café, part science lab.

Welcome to the beta.

Meet the author

My name is Cristian Cevallos, and I am the underqualified writer of all the content on this blog. I'm also a graduate student at ECU, currently studying I/O Psychology and Computer Science. In my free time, I take what I've learned through my studies in university and on my own and write about it here, in hopes that I'll flesh out my thoughts and help others grow along the way.

My promise to you as the author is to always remain authentic by saying what I believe to be true - and to back that up with evidence when claims are made. This means in any article where science is involved, you can expect citations to the studies at the bottom. With the rapid improvement of artificial intelligence, it also means absolutely no use of AI in the writing of this blog. Using it as a substitute for my own imagination would be a disservice to myself and you, the reader. (Plus, have you ever read an AI paper? It's incredibly cookie-cutter and boring.)