Working extra hard is not a long timer viable strategy to survive in a corporate world. Productive only scale linearly for putting in the extra hour. In order to stay afloat, your productivity has to grow in multiples by continuous learning.
Category Archives: Reference
Filing cabinet for a digitized world.
Synthetic biology and man made life
My plan of cloning myself is old news from yesterday. With the new technology of synthetic life, now I want to create an entire new me from scratch. If you can make something newer and better, why bother mere copying?
Mortgage risk and reward
Another mystery solved. I always wonder does it make sense to lock-in fixed rate mortgage if it is a lot more expensive than variable-rate mortgage. Lock-in is always worse off unless we are heading back to hyperinflation days in the 70’s.
The Long-Haul Degree
I couldn’t but thinking problem of humanities is the lack of demand of humanities Ph.D. Other than university or community college, who has the need to hire an specialized educated humanities Ph.D.? Maybe the market is the solution, let the humanities graduate program shrink according to market demand. Maybe we will have a lot less humanities Ph.D and some department won’t survive, but it will better for the school (financial)and for the graduates (less competition, easier to find job)
The battle of the sexes
Now I can explain why those funny looking moustache are so popular in India. Women in less health countries prefer masculine facial features.