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Dec 29, 2022

Books [|||] 2022

What reads changed your perspective this year? What reads were refreshing or sobering? …

Books

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Books [|||] 2022
Books [|||] 2022
Books

23 min read


Nov 26, 2022

Challenge *is* the Adventure

Have you noticed that the best stories and the most interesting memories usually come from the situations that involved some unexpected challenge that was overcome? …

Travel

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Travel

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Nov 2, 2022

Falsifiability of Your Views

A key piece of scientific revolution is the idea that theories need to be falsifiable to be scientific. …

Philosophy

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Philosophy

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Oct 21, 2022

Why I Hate American Four-Star Hotels

I pretty much always stay at Airbnbs when traveling in USA. You get the novelty, uniqueness… and you avoid the nasty American hotels. I have nothing against cheap 2–3 star hotels in US — perfect for a roadtrip-cheap and convenient, gets the job done. The four-start hotels though drive me…

Travel

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Travel

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Oct 18, 2022

Intellectual Honesty

Here is one of the most valuable bettering mechanisms you can use in your professional and (to a some degree) personal life: think twice as hard about the position you don’t (currently, immediately) agree with. I don’t recall where I learned about it, but I have been using it intuitively…

Thinking

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Thinking

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Sep 25, 2022

Ulu L

Four days in, and I’ve learned that the Surfline forecast is not very specific to Uluwatu — it’s only regional, and spots are based on very crude models. The 4–6ft day was overhead waves with double overhead on select sets. The 2–3+ ft days ended up being head to slightly…

Surfing

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Ulu L
Ulu L
Surfing

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Sep 10, 2022

Uluwatu Storytime

First morning, woke up — still dark, looked at the watch — 4:30am — perfect? Drove to Uluwatu, first one to arrive, starting to break the light. Another surfer parks his scooter. “Can I tailgate you to find my way in? Sure, I’m Brandon”, replies the aussie. Brandon showed me…

Surfing

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Uluwatu Storytime
Uluwatu Storytime
Surfing

4 min read


Aug 20, 2022

Stop Patting Yourself on the Back for Recycling Plastic

It just does not work. The reality is, with some negligible caveats, recycling plastic just does not work. There is no real benefit for your sorting it and putting it in the right bin. Fear not though because the problem has an obvious solution — and it was in place…

Ecology

2 min read

Ecology

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Aug 2, 2022

Balancing Act of Life

It is often in life that we need to balance conflicting directions. How do you balance right? What to optimize for? Nobody wants to be poor, so one is wise to save money. On the other hand, it does not make any sense to die rich without having taking advantage…

Philosophy

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Philosophy

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Jul 25, 2022

Measuring the Magnitude is Harder than Identifying the Direction

Recently I’ve been thinking noticing that people (including me!) often get swayed into one side or another based on a factual argument that while correct does not really poses the magnitude objectively necessary. Let me explain. Let’s say you have an issue with two arguing sides. Abortions, guns, homelessness —…

Critical Thinking

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Critical Thinking

2 min read

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