Life, Uncertainty & Cynicism
I just had an epiphany. Something like this could probably be the beginning of a blog article. Maybe I'll write it one day. I don't know. Anyway, today's experience was pretty intense. I've been following the fitness blogger and motivation trainer James Fell on Facebook for a little over a year now and I bought [...]
How to solve uncertainty? How to change the perception of linearity? I have the feeling my mind is racing all day long figuring out how talk to people about their experiences and that nobody really knows what’s going on. Well, maybe not that extreme but at least to some extent. Almost every day I read [...]
There is this idea in my mind. I want to test Taleb's idea of a barbell strategy in a domain I'm already quite familiar with: poker. A highly conservative as well as highly risky approach in this area seems like an interesting hypothesis to test. I am relatively sure that most low-stakes players are extremely [...]
As the year draws to a close, it appears to be common practice in informed communities to point out, with reliable regularity, that the world is actually not as terrible as it often seems and with the apocalypse having to wait a little longer. This is often illustrated by the positive achievements of recent years [...]
We are looking for monocausal, linear relationships in a dynamic, multicausal, non-linear world. If we knock the ball with a certain force from the edge of the table, it will fall to the ground at a precisely calculable speed. From A follows B - quite naturally. Our brain loves such obvious relationships. They enable us [...]
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