Let me illustrate using three stories describing what actually happened over the last month. My friend D. told me that he went to have an in-person 1:1 with his director, and D. noticed a nice BMW in the garage and asked if by any chance the director person wanted to…

Fun books this year! Hope you find something you like too! Below I copied over my reviews in chronological order from Goodreads so they are easy to see in one place. Two 10/10s this year — one about drugs and another about capitalism xD Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David…

For the last eight years, while reading anything non-fiction, from books to news, I’ve been using the tool that my professor of macroeconomics taught us, though it really should be taught in school during the language classes. It’s very simple. The idea is to always split the text into the…

Just about everyone has heard that history of coin tosses does not change the odds of the next toss (though, understandably, some have a hard time trusting it). Yet in just about any behavioral psychology book, you will find a “regression to the mean” phenomena, which with its “given an…

The cognitive dissonance from these two contradictory rules was teasing me ever since I could remember because each rule individually makes so much sense. Finally the dots connected. Curious? Read on! Like many, I easily fall into the trap of treading around to improve ever so slightly something that is…

Today I felt an immense feeling of happiness from… the fact that I was able to limp! Sprained my mid foot four days earlier I could not put any weight on it until today, which meant I was just hopping around to get stuff. Turns out four days is enough…

As we were driving down the beautiful four lane CA85 highway back home from Santa Cruz last Saturday night I could not help but wonder: what an incredible insight people had back in the mid 20th century that it should become a commodity, a right even, for a regular person…

Time is scarce, books are many, what do I read? Here is my list of 2019, I hope you can find something you like! 1. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 10 out of 10 Illuminating! This should be taught in schools, as it affects everyone in so many ways…

Our freshmen year math professor told us on the first lecture: in university, you are not going to focus on learning the practical skills — there are trade schools for that — you are going to learn how to learn (meta learning!), …