Category: Mental Models

  • “Winners are defined by their capacity for change” Personal identity is a fraudulent concept; it is merely a short cut that our brain uses to make decisions quickly. You buy protein bars at gas stations because you’re healthy. You wear conference t-shirts because you don’t care about fashion. You order whiskey every time you go…

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  • “Bad companies are all alike; every Good company is Good in its own way” – Peter Thiel This essay is based on two ideas: I had this idea a long time ago for picking good PhD topics. As I can no longer call myself a researcher, I’ve shifted the focus to businesses. Regardless, I’m quite…

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  • “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge” – Winston Churchill The Oxford Dictionary defines complexity as the state or quality of being intricate or complicated. Much like cliche high school valedictorians, I’ve found that the best way to understand the nuance around this point is to start with the dictionary definition. There is an understanding in the…

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  • “A drunk man will find his way home, but a drunk bird may get lost forever” – Shizuo Kakutani Random Walks A Random walk is a path which consists of a series of random steps on a mathematical space. This can be imagined on a gridded plane with vertex being possible destinations. An entity in…

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