I read Morgan Housel’s “The Psychology of Money” towards the end of last year. I found it an insightful book that took a more personal and nuanced look at money and building wealth. It is not a “how to get rich quick book.” Its core advice is to take advantage…

Lessons from Maria Konnikova’s The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself and Win Maria Konnikova is a journalist, writer, and professional poker player. I came across her an interview with her on the excellent Knowledge Project podcast. …

Introduction I recently read David Epstein’s book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. The book focuses on how to cultivate broad thinking strategies to learn effectively. Epstein’s focus is on individuals. …

I love playing video games. My favourite game series is called Mass Effect made by a game studio called BioWare. I am a huge fan of BioWare’s games and I was looking forward to trying out their new game Anthem. Anthem came out in early 2019 to universally poor reviews…

I can’t open a newspaper or visit my friendly local bookstore without coming across a think piece about why AI is a *BIG DEAL* and how it changes everything. The tone of most of the material that I have come across is aptly summed up in this classic xkcd panel. …

A contributor on GitHub finds an abandoned, but popular JS library and commits code that targets a Bitcoin wallet made by a particular company. Hundreds of other libraries use this library making this vulnerability affect thousands of applications since it is a transitive dependency. NPM (and npmjs.com) provide a valuable…

Everyone has dealt with a “Computer Says No” situation. You call up a customer services agent hoping for a quick resolution to a perfectly reasonable query. But “computer says no”. You go through a convoluted questionnaire, answer the questions as best you can, but “computer says no”. The customer service…

I had come across the term “mental model” before, but I could never really articulate or understand clearly what that term met. Today, while listening to an excellent podcast on Farnam Street with Venkatesh Rao (RibbonFarm, Breaking Smart), I came across this passage which made a lot of sense: I…

Jared Diamond’s book “Collapse” made a deep impression on me when I read it ten years ago. The book explored the reasons why societies fail. I thought of Collapse when I read Jordan Greenhall’s article. He talks about the concepts of “habit”, “exploratory thinking” and “simulated thinking”. He says: “Simulated…