OR WHY D’BANJ HAS FAILED TO SING ANOTHER OLIVER TWIST
Thanks
to a routine cognitive overload from reading, I decided to look up
notjustok.com today after a long stint. There, I found that d’banj released a
new single (albeit, unofficial). I jumped into the track with gusto. And I
liked it, probably...
Friday, December 4, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
A 'SMART' WAY TO THINK ABOUT STEREOTYPES
When you
hear the word *stereotypes* for most people, a negative connotation ensue. It
needn’t be so. They are useful heuristics that guide us through our decision
making processus, only if used aptly.
Here are
some simple rules that resonate with me:
ARE YOU
STRESSED? THEN STICK WITH YOUR STEREOTYPE.
In...
Friday, October 23, 2015
THE ILLUSION OF HAPPINESS
I am
going to succinctly expatiate on 2 thesis:
Un, Happiness is a salutary
evolutionary gadget
Deux, unfortunately, the very same gadget exemplifies an illusion (like
chasing a ghost but believing it to be a ‘non-ghost’)
Let me introduce
you to my 2 friends – Gray and Dr. Jon – and their...
Saturday, October 10, 2015
AMBIGUITY AVERSION

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YOUR LIZARD BRAIN, AND PICKING FROM THE SUCKER’S BOX.
Let’s
start with a thought experiment, quickly. Visualize two boxes.
In box A
there are 50 red balls and 50 black balls (100 in total). In Box B there are
100 balls, however, the % of red balls vs...
Friday, September 25, 2015
HOW TO BECOME AN EXPERT

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HARD IS GOOD, EASY IS BAD
In my
opinion, one of the most valid heuristics in life is: “hard is good, easy is
bad” – great ‘entities’ are time honored; and becoming an expert is not an
exception.
Benjamin
Bloom, (one of the pioneers of the psychology of expert...
Saturday, September 19, 2015
FALLIBILITY OF YOUR RISK ASSESSMENT

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When it
comes to risk assessment, it turns out that our rationality is often
compromised – seriously.
This
formula (attributed to Peter Sandman): Risk = Hazard + Outrage will expose most
(if not all) of our risk irrationality.
Research
prior the 80s (I think) found...
Saturday, September 12, 2015
SMART OPTIMISM

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Let’s consider this epigram “prepared for failure, ready for success”
It could
sound mundane but it’s an extremely powerful philosophy which most of us
jettison while we plan. I will like to shorten the epigram as ‘Smart Optimism’
Going
through life I have constantly...
Thursday, August 27, 2015
ON JUDGEMENT: “IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO”
Kindly
consider this: 2+2.
I can bet
what comes to your mind. Four right?
Question:
Did you think before the number [four] came to mind? No, I guess. Guess what?:
that’s your unconscious in action and Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahnemen refer
to this as the system 1 (fast thinking).
However,
if...
Sunday, August 16, 2015
CHARLES DARWIN’S CAREER CHOICE, AND HOW TO BUILD A THRIVING STATE

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The
development of a state is contingent on the success and failure of the
comprising individuals; and the most positive impact of such individual to the
state is one that apparently delivers the best. So, what defines the best?...
Born in
1809, Charles Darwin – dubbed...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
MY MIT PhD APPLICATION, AND THE 3 IRREFUTABLE BIOLOGICAL LESSONS OF HISTORY.

First, life
is competition. Here is Will and Ariel Durant in their 1968 book: Lessons of History
“Competition
is not only the life of trade, it is the trade of life – peaceful when food
abounds, violent when the mouths outrun the food”
I have
met folks who have repudiated competition, at almost...