Posts tagged: philosophy

A while ago I wrote about my values at work, and that if I had a choice, what would I choose. It is not often that I have that choice, but it is good to aim idealistic and expect realistic. So, in...

When gpt3 came out, I half-jokingly wrote:

I'm often interested in understanding why people believe the things they believe and why they behave the way they behave. Usually the former is a reason for the latter. Pondering these, I've realized...

Last night Ehssan sent me a post from a math professor that has been making the rounds. The professor loves research and hates grading. Who doesn't? But lately, he wrote, his research has started to...

Every once in a while I have to revisit this question and this time I took a bit longer to answer it, trying to inform it based on multiple blog posts by Chip Huyen and Eugene Yan. As Maleknaz says I...

I asked Hadi, half-jokingly, whether Bach was the Justin Bieber of his time. Are we just listening to the most "popular" artists of the 1700s and calling it high culture? And the flip side: will...

You're at the lake with your 3-year-old. You want to fish. He wants to play with you. You brought toys, snacks, a little chair for him. He should be able to entertain himself for a bit. You set him...

Imagine you own a company. One day, you ask a senior manager how they decided to spend a million dollars of the company's budget. They look you in the eye and say: "I'm not going to tell you. If you...

I've been writing a series of thoughts recently in order to clarify a point of view of mine. These are the original posts:

There's a mathematical insight that explains why some people consistently end up with better outcomes than others, and it has nothing to do with talent, luck, or even the quality of their choices.

After writing about how companies get distracted by competitive dynamics, I got some great feedback that helped me work through some deeper thoughts.

There's this pattern that keeps showing up in tech and beyond: companies get so caught up in matching what their competitors are doing that they lose sight of actually solving the underlying problem....

There are people who view everyone around them through a single lens of accomplishment. In professional circles, it's salary or publication count. In religious communities, it might be how many...

In a world flooded with information and competing claims, we like to think we evaluate ideas based on evidence and reasoned analysis. But beneath our conscious reasoning lie powerful psychological...

> Mathematics has a reputation for objectivity. But without real-world infinite objects upon which to base abstractions, mathematical truth becomes, to some extent, a matter of opinion. The choice...