When you try to boil down complex concepts to the kind of motivational missives that the Twitterverse eats up, the sound-bites you come up with may sound compelling, but they’re usually misleading or just plain wrong. The problem is, people are bombarded with that sort of oversimplified bullshit 24×7. Case[…] Read On
Everyone tells me our education system is broken. Curious, I typed, “education system is …” into Google. The top suggestion to complete the search phrase was “broken.” The next four were “flawed,” “failing,” “bad” and “messed up.” Just as I suspected. I’m a big believer in Occam’s razor: all things[…] Read On
We used to use research studies to draw scientific conclusions. Now we use data to draw erroneous conclusions and sell books. Sometimes the BS-busters are the biggest BSers. Yesterday I watched a video of a guy explaining why American millionaires have an average college GPA of 2.9. Something about college[…] Read On
The court of public opinion is no place to meter out justice. That’s why we have a criminal justice system with the blindfolded lady and the scales. Without it you’re left with groupthink and confirmation bias which ultimately deteriorates to mob rule. Who would have thought that an enlightened society[…] Read On
“We have met the enemy, and he is us.” – Walt Kelly, Pogo A couple of Apple investors want the tech giant to do more to fight smartphone addiction among children. Their open letter cites alarming evidence that smartphone and social media use can lead to distraction, depression and addiction.[…] Read On
As far back as I can remember, we’ve heard that machines are going to take our jobs and destroy the working class. Every decade or so, the media gets hysterical over some hot new technology, and then a strange thing happens: absolutely nothing. The cataclysm never comes. And in my[…] Read On
Hello, Gen Z. Now that we’ve seen how millennials turned out, our only hope for the future rests in your hands. Try not to screw up the planet, OK? You do have one distinct advantage over the rest of us: growing up with tech. That means you learned to use[…] Read On