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  • Predicting the future and fraud

    Now let’s say you had experience in economics and business, as I do. In those domains, anyone telling you they can predict the future in ten years with their complicated multivariate models is automatically considered fraud. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more


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  • Waste a life

    It’s easy. Do not make any plans. The moment you wake up, get your phone, and open your most used social media account. Is it Facebook? Instagram? TikTok? Do nothing but just scroll. Find the right angle for your post. Repeat. Some begin their day watching anything on Netflix. Or a movie series until 3 Read more


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  • A lot has changed these days

    A lot has changed these days

    From carefree travel, we are now mandated to wear face masks and shields all the time. I am writing this from Metro Manila, Philippines. So if you are reading this from other parts of the globe, I wonder what traveling is like for you these days. It takes a lot of energy to get used Read more


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  • Sunk cost and sunk cost fallacy

    It’s one thing to spend so many hours making a decision between A and B. It’s another to stick to your choice just because you already invested so much into the choice you made. But what if today, your reason for choosing one over the other does not make sense anymore? What are you going Read more


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  • Going someplace

    Going someplace

    Sometimes, when you feel like you are starting to become an unfeeling cog in the system, your mind wanders. And when your mind wanders, you lose clarity on what’s ahead. You also begin to disassociate yourself from the physical and travel back to the fun times. All the good memories start to reel in as Read more


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