Got mine in kindle. But now I'm thinking of getting a few physical books to gift to friends.

I don't know him personally but I went to a lecture by him once. Dixit is a pretty common Indian surname from what I can see. There are a few Bollywood stars with that name and people make fun of it all

Other posts from the Ignatieff memoir:

The Dixit book is very very good. Probably the best & most actionable popular introduction to game theory that I know.

Main tenet of Stoicism!

Holons? I am reminded of the proposed organizational structure of holacracy.

Oh my god...

Unless they need to use social media for work, people who update their status & browse their feeds & check their notifications constantly have a co-dependent personality. They cannot act or think

Note that this video was before Bannon's ouster from Breitbart.

Posting of excerpts from other people's books is not necessarily an endorsement. But I am truly honored that the Internet Research Agency considers me important enough to post lengthy comments here. I

In his book 'The Stuff of Thought' I remember Steven Pinker positing that human temporal consciousness is also not continuous but consists of discrete quanta of roughly 3-second intervals, which is about

Top 3 Marvel films, in descending order: Kingsman 1 Iron Man 1 Black Panther The Avengers 1 Logan But I would put Thor Ragnarok above all of them, although it is a very unique & strange film that cannot

Boiler Room & Margin Call & TV Show Billions

That's because Monty Python's style of comedy is very anarchist & surreal, which is also my favorite kind of comedy.

Original paper here:

Read Alain Badiou, who proposes a very novel proposition about the relationship between philosophy & science. For him, science is one of the 4 conditions for philosophy and in fact, ontology is

If a global cryptocurrency become dominant, then the arbitrage benefits of living in a poorer country with lower USD forex rates will be less.

Almost reached 10K a few minutes ago, though.