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Best Decision Ever.
What’s your best decision ever? Some things we don’t really decide for ourselves- reading extensively as a child was great for me, but I didn’t really feel like I consciously decided to do it- I just played along. I got … Continue reading
What do you do if you are a self-fulfilling prophet?
What is the pragmatic course of action to take when you are aware that your prediction about the future (to simplify it) is going to influence it? If there was a single chief economist in the world (again, simplifying it) … Continue reading
On regrets, fragility, certainty and forks in the road
Do you have any regrets? It’s one of those questions that’s thrown around so often that we don’t really think about it very much- we tend to develop stock responses and leave it at that. What does it mean, anyway, … Continue reading
The remarkable philosophy of Wendy Cheng, aka Xiaxue
I’ve always been a fan of Xiaxue. There, I said it. I think she’s a genius, and not just because she scored 269 for her PSLE and qualified for Mensa. For one, she’s figured out how to make a living … Continue reading
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Tagged decision-making, Nassim Taleb, philosophy, uncertainty, Xiaxue
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7 Lessons Smokers Can Teach Us About Getting Shit Done
Smokers do something that’s quite remarkable that nobody really talks about: they smoke a lot of cigarettes. A heavy smoker can finish a pack a day. That’s 7,300 cigarettes a year. At 4 minutes a cigarette, that’s about 486 hours … Continue reading
To be rich and hate your job, or to be poor and love it?
Would you rather be very very rich but working something you don’t like, or very very poor but doing something you love? That’s a bit of a false dilemma, because how much money you have is dependent not just on … Continue reading
