SELF AWARENESS · PSYCHOLOGY · DECISIONS · MATHEMATICS
Life Has No Goal. It Has a Gradient.
You get one path through time, not an ensemble of parallel selves. The only question that survives that fact is what compounds along the path.
Things I'm reading, thinking about, and trying to make sense of. Books, papers, ideas from work, occasional detours into psychology, fintech, or whatever's caught my attention lately. I write here mostly to think more clearly, and to keep track of the threads worth pulling on later.
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You get one path through time, not an ensemble of parallel selves. The only question that survives that fact is what compounds along the path.
PSYCHOLOGY · BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS
Your brain does not record the world. It simulates one. And the smartest people are not the ones running the truest simulation.
PSYCHOLOGY · SELF AWARENESS · SYSTEMS
The two ways to raise signal over noise look identical inside the room. They diverge violently the moment you leave it.
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS · FINTECH · PRODUCT · DECISIONS · SYSTEMS
Present bias as the operating model of buy-now-pay-later, credit cards, and trading apps.
ATTENTION · MEETINGS · SYSTEMS
Shannon's limit applied to standups, Slack, and review cycles. The bit-rate of management.
DECISIONS · NETWORKS · SYSTEMS
Why a fractional second of unnecessary braking can collapse a highway, and why the same physics governs supply chains and packet networks.
DECISIONS · MATHEMATICS · ECONOMICS
Population statistics work for venture funds. They will ruin you. Why ensemble averages and time averages diverge in careers, and what to do about it.
INFORMATION THEORY · COGNITION
The hard math of lossy compression explains memory, trauma, product design, storytelling, education, and AI.