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.
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SELF AWARENESS · PSYCHOLOGY · DECISIONS · MATHEMATICS
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.
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS · FINTECH · PRODUCT · DECISIONS · SYSTEMS
Present bias as the operating model of buy-now-pay-later, credit cards, and trading apps.
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.
PRODUCT · DECISIONS
Why Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge feel different - and how their algorithms, product choices, and consumer psychology create three different dating markets.
AI · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS · NOTE
AI collapses Russell's two kinds of work into a third. The bottleneck shifts from execution to judgment, and the value of pure execution falls toward zero.
PRODUCT · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS · NOTE
A PM primer on game theory - payoff matrices, the Prisoner's Dilemma, coordination, signaling, and mechanism design, with examples from PayPal, Uber, and Slack.
PRODUCT · DECISIONS · SYSTEMS
How small product choices trigger monumental shifts in design: psychology, math, and UX of the ripple effect.