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I really like this book: 'You Are Not So Smart Book by David McRaney' cos it really points out these cognitive biases that we human beings have. The spotlight effect makes people think the world revolves around them. It is pure ego to assume that when I talk about my body, I am thinking about yours. When I got down to 70kg from 83kg and said I wanted to drop to 62 or 65 kg, that goal belonged to me alone. It was never an attack on anyone who is bigger. It is not a judgment on size. I have a specific way I want my body to look and feel, and that standard comes strictly from me. This has nothing to do with body dysmorphia. I do not set my fitness goals by comparing myself to anyone else. When I think about my own physique, no one is in the picture but myself. When I say I feel bloated or bigger, it is because the standard of how I want to look is based on my goals and my goals alone. It is self-absorbed to believe that based on the virtue of being on the bigger side, that you inf...

 I started this book, Narrative Economics, to get more into behavioral economics. The idea is that many people pursue interests not because of any rational reason, but more so because of emotions. Let's use Bitcoin for instance. A lot of people do not know the underlying technology, myself included before reading this book. Of course, I've heard of the elliptic digital signature algorithm, but that was because I was preparing for my Security+, and I didn't even know what specifically it was for. Now I found out the algorithm is useful for confirming and verifying the identity of whoever did an operation. Apart from that, the entire idea behind Bitcoin, which a lot of us might have known, is that it is meant to be democratic. This is for people who have the fear of getting replaced by jobs or the government controlling every facet of their lives. They see people in power who they feel are not as qualified, and I am inclined to agree with them. A lot of the people in power do...

  Well, what's new?  A manipulative sex-addicted groomer who took advantage of a young girl who believed so much in God. This man was a sex addict. Apparently they were having sex 4x a day. Yeah, you read right. Like that's for the day oo, night has its own count. You'd even see some videos of her leading worship but obviously in pain. This man was pumping her with testosterone so she could keep up with his drive. And he'd even whore her out to sex workers on the street. And of course she'd adhere cos when they come to church on Sunday, he'd keep preaching 1st Corinthians 7:5 and the whole Ephesians.  I keep saying I don't like Paul. I hate his epistles, noone asked him for his opinions. Anyways, I normally say don't infantalize women and they made their choices but I actually did feel sorry for Mica. He started stalking her when she finally made the move to divorce after 12 years. I'm even leaving details cos this man accosted her from her initial m...

When I traveled back in April to the east, the seat I got on the airplane was an emergency exit seat. I did not know because I was not the person who booked the flight. On seeing that seat, an inexplicable fear gripped me. In my subconscious, I said that I could not sit there . I was not thinking about what would happen if we crashed and I needed to assist in opening the door. It was much more than that. In hindsight, it was much more than that. I remember I messaged my friend and asked her about this emergency door seat that I got. She said it was fine and that nothing was wrong. Now that I am watching this documentary, it dug up my previous memory and explained why I had that fear. On the Boeing 737 MAX, there was an incident in 2024 where the door plug blew out. The door opened mid-flight. I watched that documentary last year or two years ago, probably last year. It was rooted in my subconscious that this failure is a real possibility on these planes. This situation leads me to thin...

I am going to go on a tangent a little bit before talking about the topic at hand. That tangent is, I just discovered the "Big Ideas Simply Explained" series. There are different books on different topics, economics, math, biology, sociology, psychology. I found a reading list on Goodreads, and I was so excited. I was so glad. This is the order I plan to read them: history, economics, sociology, and then psychology. Then I will read that other book by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail . I will read that after. So I already have five books that I plan to read after Power and Progress . Now, back to Power and Progress . I just started this documentary on Netflix about Boeing. In fact, I had actually seen the first Boeing documentary when it came out. At that time, I had not boarded a plane at all in my life. I had never boarded a plane. So I was quite scared about the problems Boeing had and the different crashes that happened. Statistically, the issues cam...

As the wise philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel opined, "the only lesson from history is that we do not learn from history." I said I was going to stop listening to AI CEOs cos they're just marketers sprouting whatever so their investors will keep pumping money. So I'd rather focus on what educated economists are saying about all of these brouhaha So I got recommended this book, Power and Progress by two brilliant economists. So I figured to learn their theories about AI I haven't even gotten to the chapter on Artificial Intelligence but I just keep seeing parallels from the different waves of tech advancement From the Steam Engine to the Loom, to Mining, to Agriculture, To even Establishment of Trade Routes in both Suez Canal and Panama. Funny enough, we did all of these in my history undergrad but when you don't have real experience to tie to, so you don't really know what to analyze or draw parallels unfolding events. Cos basically none of the cla...