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Necessary and destructive happiness
Happiness is a just discrimination between what is necessary, destructive, neither necessary nor destructive, and what is necessary and destructive We need the necessary essentials: food water shelter We should avoid the destrutcgive: violence hatred and corruption There are things that are necessary but also can be destructive: the oil industry, corporations, and burning the Continue reading
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Almost done!
The semester is almost done and of course, I am overwhelmed with a sense of bittersweetness. Sweet in all the memories I’ve made; bitter in all the stupid tests and stress caused by examination when I want to simply pursue knowledge. Sweet in all the fun moments I’ve had with my friends over dinner; bitter Continue reading
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Treatments
This blog post uses information and experiments extracted from the latest book I’ve been listening to on Audible: “Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data” In economics, in sciences, in social sciences, in politics, we care about what works. But how effective are certain treatments? Placebos can be quite powerful. Sometimes they are just Continue reading
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[Book Review] Freakonomics
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[Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explains the Hidden Side to Everything] – by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt was a great book. It was different. And I liked it. Freakonomics makes you look at the world in a different way. The book explores the real reasons for the 1990s crime drop, information asymmetry, real estate agents, Continue reading
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[Book Review] Originals – Adam Grant
I am a big believer of self-learning through books. An autodidact. Elon Musk-esque, if you will. But there is an important factor that I’ve noticed to understanding the contents of a rich book: writing about it. It’s not enough to just blow through books; you have to truly grasp the content, and writing about it Continue reading
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[Book Review] How to Be Original
I finished reading Originals, – by Adam Grant. Adam Grant, who is rated the best professor at UPenn Wharton’s Business school, is an organizational psychologist who has written several #1 NYT books. In Originals, he discusses how Non-conformists (procrastinators, slow people, and other different personality traits) succeed in life with their increased creativity This is my book review Continue reading
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