The Hotstove Effect in the COVID Forest
How do we reassess risk after being hurt once? This pandemic might give us a chance to learn in the COVID forest.
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.
How do we reassess risk after being hurt once? This pandemic might give us a chance to learn in the COVID forest.
Exceptionalism is intrinsically exclusionary. But it is also at the core of academic recruitment. Here I discuss this with a welfare lens.
As a resident of Europe this privilege crosses my mind every now and then. Yet, only today I realized how uncommon it is.
Physical laws are stable since the Big Bang. Social laws change often. The discrepancy is crazy to me and the reason why I've stayed in mgmt
To me, God has been paradoxical. Love thy neighbor as you love yourself. Yet, conquer, exploit women and other races. This brings some joy.
My name is Jose; as a name it is ubiquitous. Yet, for some, it is hard to pronounce. This hurts communication and so I tend to joke about it
Last week died the author I have read the most. I avoid rereading authors. Yet, as RuPaul would say "reading [bell hooks] is fundamental"
History is written by the victors. Events experienced but not recorded become absent from history. Here I discuss this deep historic bias.
We pay to watch Netflix. Advertisers pay to let us use Google's products. What if we outbid them and pay for Google ourselves?
One should do important work but what if it is not useful? Here I discuss a simple 2x2 that helps me navigate life.
Media routinely blows our minds. Here I share a couple of instances that blew mine and changed how I view strategy.
We tend to see time equals money as an individual-level call for efficiency. But when applied to organizations, it explains much more.
Lately a new niche developed. We can get things delivered in 15 minutes of less. But is that progress prosperous?
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?