Noteworthy Nonsense
Notes on Communication, Decision-Making and Business & Investing
Multi-Disciplinary Thinking: How Geology Shaped Darwin’s Tree of Life
Evolutionary Theory set forth a Tree of Life model for biology, putting all living organisms under a shared umbrella. Distinct species like cats and dogs turned out to be merely distant cousins, branching off from a shared ancestor. Interestingly though, it was 19th century geology, woven beautifully into biology, that helped Darwin bring forth the Tree of Life.
System 1 and System 2 Thinking: How We Make Decisions
You might think we make all of our decisions the same way, but it turns out we have two very different decision-making systems.
Nobel Prize winning Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, in his book Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow, details two cognitive processes for decision-making: fast System 1 and slow System 2.
Squatty Potty®: A Rose by Any Other Name…
Because how else could I share this with the world?
Book Summary: Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Book Summary: Principles by Ray Dalio
Life can seem like an infinite blizzard of events we’re trekking through, but in reality, variations of the same kinds of things happen to us over-and-over again, throughout both daily life and history.
Selecting College Majors: What do You Wish Avoid?
How’s a high school senior, who’s considering college, supposed to know which major to pick? These folks are barely capable of watching R-rated movies themselves, according to society.
The Psychology of Personal Finance: Meet Diligent, Destitute and Dickey (Part 3)
There are three broad approaches you can take for your personal finances, which in large part is behavioral. And so, I’ve modeled these approaches with three fictional characters.
Thus, meet: Diligent the Rational, Destitute the Emotional and Dickey the Blend
The Psychology of Personal Finance: Meet Diligent, Destitute and Dickey (Part 2)
There are three broad approaches you can take for your personal finances, which in large part is behavioral. And so, I’ve modeled these approaches with three fictional characters.
Thus, meet: Diligent the Rational, Destitute the Emotional and Dickey the Blend
The Psychology of Personal Finance: Meet Diligent, Destitute and Dickey
There are three broad approaches you can take for your personal finances, which in large part is behavioral. And so, I’ve modeled these approaches with three fictional characters.
Thus, meet: Diligent the Rational, Destitute the Emotional and Dickey the Blend.
Beating Blackjack: How An Outsider Beat The House
In the late 1950s, Ed Thorp defied conventional wisdom and developed a winning strategy for blackjack that anyone could then use—if it could be stomached.