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.
Decisions
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PSYCHOLOGY · BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS
The Sandbox Behind Your Eyes: Why No Two People See the Same Reality
Your brain does not record the world. It simulates one. And the smartest people are not the ones running the truest simulation.
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BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS · FINTECH · PRODUCT · DECISIONS · SYSTEMS
Hyperbolic Discounting Is Why Fintech Apps Are Designed Against Their Users
Present bias as the operating model of buy-now-pay-later, credit cards, and trading apps.
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DECISIONS · NETWORKS · SYSTEMS
Phantom Traffic Jams Are Not About Traffic. They're About Delay.
Why a fractional second of unnecessary braking can collapse a highway, and why the same physics governs supply chains and packet networks.
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DECISIONS · MATHEMATICS · ECONOMICS
The Ergodicity Trap: Why a 90% Failure Rate Looks Different from the Inside
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.
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PRODUCT · DECISIONS
Dating App Algorithms Are Not About Love. They Are About Market Design
Why Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge feel different - and how their algorithms, product choices, and consumer psychology create three different dating markets.
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AI · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS · NOTE
AI Execution Trap: The Rise of the Third Kind of Work
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.
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PRODUCT · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS · NOTE
Playing to Win: Game Theory for Product Managers
A PM primer on game theory - payoff matrices, the Prisoner's Dilemma, coordination, signaling, and mechanism design, with examples from PayPal, Uber, and Slack.
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PRODUCT · DECISIONS · SYSTEMS
The Ripple Effect in Products
How small product choices trigger monumental shifts in design: psychology, math, and UX of the ripple effect.