The prestige trap lurks out there waiting for everyone; why and how to escape it so as to live a great life.

A machineworks in the aether
The prestige trap lurks out there waiting for everyone; why and how to escape it so as to live a great life.
Radical uncertainty is the state of not knowing what you don’t know – we all exist in that state. How do you handle that?
I just found this not too old op-ed gem by David Brooks for the NY Times, “What Data Can’t Do”. The best quote is this:
Inside each and every one of us, even in perhaps the tiniest of measures, is an ego-driven narcissistic dictator who thrives on control. Games like
At a job early in my career I had the wonderful confluence of circumstances which allowed me to a) learn quite a bit and b)