Future jobs'll require high agency, and what high agency people do differently: Don't seek perfect information, act under uncertainty with courage. Don't complain about rules, recommend better rules or bypass them. Don't wait for permission, ask forgiveness if their actions fail.
Chang predicts Trump’s tariffs will drive inflation, raise consumer costs, and fail to improve living standards. Rebuilding an industrial base eroded over decades would take years, and without a strategic plan, the policy is politically and economically unsustainable.
Tonight events in Istanbul embody randomness and nonlinearity in a way that no one could predict what tomorrow morning would look like. A coin is spinning in the air. neither heads nor tails, a combination of both possibilities.
Randomness refers to clear lack of definite pattern or predictability in information. Random sequences of events often lack order and don't follow an intelligible pattern.
Nonlinearity refers to the output is not directly proportional to the input, meaning a change in input does not lead to a proportional change in output. In contrast, linear systems exhibit a proportional relationship between input and output.
I've just finished Carlo Rovelli's Helgoland about Quantum mechanics and it turned out a surprising exploration of physics and philosophy since the birth of the field in 1925. UN proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Tech and Science. more to read on it.
Reality isn't just seen by your eyes, it is imagined by your brain first. In other words, the brain predicts what we'll encounter; the eyes correct this prediction. Your perception is a dance between your expectation and observation, where attention shapes what we call ‘real.’
In the words of philosopher Hippolyte Taine, we can say that ‘external perception is an internal dream which proves to be in harmony with external things; and instead of calling “hallucination” a false perception, we must call external perception “a confirmed hallucination”.