This site under reconstruction.
I’m currently reading a book about some tools for smarter thinking: Mindware by Richard Nisbett. In my last post (or two), I wrote about the second chapter where the main takeaway for me was you should consider the situation when evaluating why people act the way they do. Just relying on the “dispositional” characters of…
Yesterday, I read a bunch of articles about universities offering classes on computers, specifically coding classes. These classes are extremely popular and can sometimes carry a waiting list. The coding mania has even extended down to the elementary school level. So a lot of people are getting on the STEM train ride. In a few years,…
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk lately about fake news and conspiracy theories. People are believing some weird stuff such as the child porn ring at a Washington pizzeria that supposedly included Clinton folks. Then there are folks who don’t believe in the government data such as the unemployment rate. I get that they…
I’m pretty sure I’ve done a post about making mistakes, but since it’s been a while and since I’ve had two conversations with my boss about the topic, I think it’s time to revisit the topic of making mistakes because we see so many. There’s mistakes in grammar and spelling. There’s mistakes in keying in or…
This post is way different from the usual – way off the beaten path – but the incident this post references to still sticks in my mind, even after a couple of years. So I thought I would just comment on the incident. Every once in a while I will receive a notice that one…
In my last post, I mentioned that five years from now, a job as a programmer may not be a good job because everything mathematical and logic related is being automated. But I forgot to mention that even though programming knowledge may not get you a good job, you will still need to learn it….