On Breadwinning, Caregiving, and Purpose
Homebuilding is nominally composed of two activities: Caregiving, and Breadwinning. But are both just as important?
A random collection of back-of-the-envelope calculations, short stories, half-baked theories, bad poems, and more.
Many of these relate to the idea of normalcy what it entails and what it does not.
We are fortunate to live in a time where right and wrong, traditions, and norms are being renegotiated.
Yet, only through exploring what is normal can we see the depth of the clash and be earnest with our hopes.
Homebuilding is nominally composed of two activities: Caregiving, and Breadwinning. But are both just as important?
Comparing suffering is like dividing by zero. You might get a result you like but not everyone will see it that way.
It might be childish but I have a favorite word. This word encompasses a big part of my cosmogony, my values, and my views of the word....
This wrinkle is what Karl Popper called the Paradox of Tolerance. In short, it explains that a society that values tolerance can be so...
The market segment composed of these three sets of acronyms describes one of the most coveted market segments. That is wrong.
Many a eager beaver CEO has laid awake at now hashing plans to disrupt their industries. Some have succeeded. Many more have failed. This...
When star scientist explode and fall from the sky, how are we all affected?
As housework becomes shared by both partners how should our organizations adapt?
A major flaw in our brains makes us forget how bad the past was. Most infants died. We lacked food and warmth. Yet some flaw makes us forget
Train stations are confusing. But few are as much so as Munster's central station in Westfalen, Germany.
The revelation principle of mechanism design is an amazing piece of work. It feels like magic to me, a kind of magic, I cannot perform.
How often do you feel people need you to be exceptionally great? It's tiring, no? Here I equate exceptionally to luck and give some thoughts
During the last year, we have direct evidence that four million people have died while infected with the SARS COV2 virus. This is a lot...
Climate change, hunger, poverty, and inequality are very hard problems to solve and their solutions suck. But what can we do? Sit and wail?
Religion encompasses every aspect of our life. In this post, I present different types of religions and their architectural monuments.
One can have knowledge that is false, right? Philosophers say no, scientists laugh in disbelief. Rephrasing of: https://youtu.be/gzPF9VajS
A direct plagiarism of John Green's Kentucky Bluegrass chapter of "The Anthropocene Reviewed" applied to daily Costarican life.
The 2nd law of thermodynamic explains that as a whole the universe becomes less structured with time. We see the opposite in society. Why?
Costa Rica is the land of Pura Vida. Germany the land of Verantwortung. As national of one and resident of the other I discuss some tensions
As we grow up we learned biased ideas that we assume are normal. This is the mediocrity principle a foundation of science.