Student of Life
Networking is like planting seeds. But the goal is foliage not a seed. Planting is easy. Consistently watering is hard. There are many successful ways to network. But most successful systems usually consist of 1) building off your existing network and 2) exposure to high degrees of randomness to add new people to your network. The end [...]
Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball, which popularized the revolutionary analytical approaches used to gain a competitive advantage in baseball, has his sights on doing the same for basketball. In this captivating New York Times Article, Lewis takes us into the world of the basketball quants attempting to discover how to define true basketball value [...]
Here’s a short story I wrote up a few months ago. I was experimenting with ideas of randomness, networking and success in life in the form of a short story. I could have done a lot more with it and I have a lot of thoughts about how to improve it. This is my first [...]
See the original post here. What motivates people is something that interests me. I do not think reactivity is the core of innovation, but I do think it plays a notable role. All areas of life bleed into one another and shade them accordingly. Sectors of life don’t exist in isolation. In rereading my post [...]
See update to this post. It seems many people’s innovative drive come from a reactive desire to prove themselves. They try to prove, often to the opposite sex, that they are someone worth knowing by showing they are extremely competent in some unrelated discipline like science or technology. It pains me to see people with such a distorted sense of [...]
I want to increase my output on this site. I’m thinking about doing another kind of post to support this end. It takes me a long time to formulate comprehensive thoughts and theories. But I’m thinking it might be interesting to blog some of my more intermediate musings. This medium is after all about opening up a [...]
It’s really bothering me lately that I don’t have time to write at all. I’ve been piling up plenty of ideas and have about 150 stashed away that I’d like to write about sometime. The sad thing is I rarely have the time to sit down and flesh out my ideas. Rather than not posting [...]
