I’m going to try my hand at doing a film review. It’ll be like the other ones you’ve read from professionals, except mine will have lots of cussing. I was going to be hyperbolic about my reaction, but I decided to control my emotions and be logical. The Last Jedi was the worst Star Wars movie ever made.…

A number of things that seem like basic features of an advanced society are increasingly becoming luxuries for the rich. Doing work that you enjoy. Having good healthcare. Going to college. Having access to good information. Etc… I think we can now add Protection From Sexual Harassment to the list. The Weinstein Effect has basically put the corporate…

Maybe Putin is trying to get Trump elected so that he’ll be able to play the role of international savior from the (then obviously evil) US. And in order to do that, he’s collecting as much as possible that he (or someone else) can use to harm Clinton during the election. Source: Why is Russia Trying to Get…

I think in the future these are the types of statements from rich people that are going to cause riots in the street. I was just reading the post that this quote came from and I was having feelings. First, it’s a great post. Definitely valuable for anyone looking to up-level from just having a great corporate job…

I think many are confused about bias in artificial intelligence. I think what it should mean is when you present training data to an algorithm that doesn’t represent reality. So you thought you were telling the AI how the world really is, but for some sampling-related reason you fail to do that. The result is poor predictive capabilities…

Well this explains a lot. Whereas self-esteem tends to be at its lowest in adolescence, and slowly increases throughout life, narcissism peaks in adolescence and gradually declines throughout the lifespan. Therefore, the development of narcissism and high self-esteem show the mirror image of each other throughout the course of human development. Source: Narcissism and Self-Esteem Are Very Different…

There’s something of a trend right now to identify various things that only the rich seem capable of these days and calling those luxuries. Some examples include: boredom, creativity, caring about the environment, philanthropy, etc. They’re things that, as it turns out, have a lot of prerequisites—most important among them being time and money. It’s not easy to…

I’m reading about the situation in Spain, where we’re basically talking about secession. We had Brexit. Now we have the U.S. being torn apart from within by Trump, Russia, and its various internal factions. I wonder if there isn’t a clear overall trend here, which is something like: Income disparity and limited resources cause tension. High immigration in…

The movement happening right now regarding sexual harassment in Hollywood is pushing my emotions around. First we had Weinsein get called out for what must have been decades of behavior that was simply unbelievable. Then we had multiple male friends, including people like Clooney and Tarantino, come out and say that the feel horrible because they should have…

I recently learned the origin of the world “school”, and was reminded of the origin of the word “company”. We know school as a place to train for future life—to learn things—and if you’d asked me what its origin was I’m sure I would have said something like, ‘to learn’. It’s not. School comes from Greek, and it’s…