A corrupt, incompetent national government lost to a popular local militia as the foreign supporter leaves; Afghanistan in 2021, China in 1949, etc.
July 7, 2021
January 18, 2021
Fairness
If we continue this line of reasoning, is it fair for younger, healthy people in richer nations to receive more heath care, social welfare, etc., than vulnerable people in poorer states?
How should we define fairness across different groups of people?
Is such fairness achievable or desirable?
Money, discipline, and life
Without enough disciplines, money, talent, or other resources cannot solve our problems, if not create more.
November 3, 2020
Election night doodling
“The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.” – Will Rogers
April 12, 2020
Scaffolding knowledge
Every information is a piece of an entire knowledge, so instead of treating what we learn as separate fragments, it is more effective to memorize and understand them as a whole.
This is possible because knowledge often repeats in different forms, such as through history or books.
In effect, Funes not only remembered every leaf on every tree of every wood, but even every one of the times he had perceived or imagined it.
To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract. In the overly replete world of Funes there were nothing but details, almost contiguous details.
– Funes the Memorious
April 3, 2020
The pandemic world war
When this is all over,
The disease will dissipate,
The economy will recover,
But the world order will be very different.
December 11, 2018
Carlos Ghosn
Mediocre people, when they have the right chance, can still hurt better people in unexpected ways. I am glad that I learned this lesson early enough so the damage I received is quite limited.
I am less sure about him though.
August 11, 2017
How to defeat an ideology
The more we avoid or suppress an idea, the more powerful it becomes.
“The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.” – What you can’t say by Paul Graham.
Engage and attack: attend-listen-embarass, rebut
July 27, 2017
John Urschel
Retiring NFL player who is also a current MIT math PhD student and his latest paper is about CVT.
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