So in recent years I've become a bit of a history fanatic. Weekday meals? 30 minutes of Youtube documentaries for lunch. 1 hour for dinner. Reading list? At least half are history books. Odd few minutes here and there? I'll be exhausting the question library on another history quiz app. We'll come back to this [...]
Muffin or chihuahua? Poodle or fried chicken? Puppy or bagel? Shar-pei or towel? Sheepdog or mop? Shar-pei or croissant? Dog or teddy bear? You may have come across these images if you work in a technical field. These mix ups are a fun way of testing classification accuracy. But what exactly does it mean when [...]
Here's a neat trick that has served me well over the years. When confronted with a seemingly lose-lose situation, instead of opting for the second worst option, I ask: "Is this a false dichotomy?" Get into this habit of paving an 'option 3', and you'll be surprised at how often this is possible. "I don't [...]
Consider two ways of making purple. Method 1: Alternate red and blue squares. With enough squares, purple emerges. Method 2: Make square alternate between red and blue. With short enough time intervals, purple emerges. First method made changes in the space (ensemble) dimension. Second method made changes in the time (temporal) dimension. Both converged to [...]
"Knowledge of the message is not enough… ...for the message to be successful, each person must not only know about it, each person must know that each other person knows about it. In fact, each person must know that each other person knows that each other person knows about it, and so on; that is, [...]
"Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire." I'm often asked what my favourite book is. I guess it's all about being the right book at the right time. To date though, Antifragile by Nassim Taleb probably had the most influence on the way I think and see the world. But Antifragile is written in an [...]
"You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while" - Eckhart Tolle With zero context, what does IR stand for? What about GM? What about SA? Ask me and I think Investor Relations, General Manager and Script Adherence. Indeed influenced by my current job. Chances are you would have come up [...]
Majority of my posts echo: "many problems stem from people underestimating complexity and oversimplifying things." Meanwhile, the opposite can hold true too. Many problems are complex, but that doesn't mean every solution has to be. This is page is an ongoing archive of case studies and examples that colour this point. So the other day [...]
