A free/libre text editor that has so much functionality that it’s often joked about being an operating system that has an ok text editor.

An exercise to enumerate all of the ways a project couldgo wrong.

All thoughts, senses, and perception arises in the same place, one’s consciousness.

While it might seem like being stressed or anxious is binary, it’s more like a sum.

Signaling is often the underlying motivation for our behaviors. We make visible our values to both the in-group and out-groups in ways such as buying a luxury automobile (to signal wealth) or posting a flattering image of ourselves on vacation.

Robinhood is linked to recent events like the stock price of Hertz skyrocketing despite going bankrupt or Kodak jumping 1,000% on news of a pivot to drug manufacturing.

Behavioral change, such as forming a new habit, can be motivated by how it reflects your identity (both positively and negatively)–we do things that provide evidence for who we are.

A manager is constantly sythesizing information into useful direction and feedback to the team.

The platonic ideal of technology and human interaction occurred during the summer of 2016 when everyone was playing Pokémon Go.

Learning through association of a behavior with rewards and punishment. We tend to do more of the things that make us feel good rather than feel bad.

Trade flows can be predicted based on the proximity of two places and size of their respective economies.

A possible explanation to the Fermi Paradox can be found in energy economics.

A pathfinding algorithm for finding an optimal path within a graph between two nodes.

A common way of representing signed integers (can be positive or negative) in computers.

A team explores the solution space of a set of pre-prepared problem statements or scenarios by sketching out different approaches that solve it.

Being on video conference calls repeatedly is exhausting. This phenomena is believed to be caused by the brain working overtime because we can tell the other person is an imperfect projection and reading body language is difficult.

A habit that helps make acquiring new habits easier. For example, the habit of removing the option of notdoing something you need to do decreases the mental energy to take the desired action and thereby create the habit.

Economist Alex Tabarok argues that pundits should be required to bet on their opinions and predictions.

Startups display many properties of a full blown economy sped up many by many times.

If every time a group of people need to work together they need to agree on how they work together, who is involved, and expectations, the cost of cooperation would grow with the number of people (possibly exponentially).

In order for an economy to prosper, there must be a high degree of trust in the system.

Prior to the 1900s, people did not believe an animal could go extinct–they assumed nature was endless.

Refers to the Leo Strauss notion that serious writers communicate ideas through many layers of meaning and abstraction which simultaneously protects the author from the ruling regime and attracts the right readers.

The non-secular Buddha, who teaches the practice of meditation and mindfulness through a more academic lens.