Unlearning Lesson #13: Practice Intentional Imperfection “Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.” –Dijikstra Question #13: If a poor man can make one cigarette from six butts, how many can he make from thirty-six butts? Seven. He makes six cigarettes, smokes them, and uses the six new butts to make a seventh [...]

Scientists have recently discovered two new black holes that are 10 billions times the size of our sun. 10 billion times! The discovery is quite impressive but scientists still don't know much about these black holes. In this sense, the discovery is a fitting metaphor for our knowledge: As impressive as our knowledge is, our [...]

In honor of tomorrow being Thanksgiving, I thought I would recount a wonderful story from Nassim Taleb's outstanding book, The Black Swan: "Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird's belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members [...]