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“Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.” - Blaise Pascal
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December 2022

October 2022

If you ain't forecasting, you ain't living
It’s not unusual for investors and investing pundits to say they do not make forecasts. As Yogi Berra quipped, “It’s tough to make predictions…
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August 2022

Everywhere you look there's lag
To better read the tea leaves, it pays to look at how systems work
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July 2022

Pain: it's complicated
The via negativa of pain and its contradictions
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June 2022

Why Reflexivity Matters
Connecting "the universe of thoughts with the universe of events"
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May 2022

April 2022

Advice to my younger self
I decided to temporarily divert from the Paradox Series as I approach my birthday. This is a deeply personal post so please feel free to skip. Upon…
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Knowledge paradoxes
Why we are becoming dumber
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March 2022

Reductionism and Reintegration
The dangers of reductionism and how to simplify without losing the essence of the thing itself.
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February 2022

Social media and scapegoating
Cancel culture is the new human sacrifice
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Mimetic theory, its criticisms and mimesis in the stock market
This is the first of several posts that discuss mimesis and its impact on our lives. Mimesis is the process of imitation. It comes from the Ancient…
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