When people hear Game Theory, they often become overstimulated or intimidated and stop listening. But Game Theory is simple. It’s not about being smarter than others; it’s about playing for long-term outcomes and leading people toward good behavior in a cooperative game. Short-term thinking makes for a bad game. Game Theory is essential to human survival. It’s the rule book for how cooperation actually works, and not the idea of cooperating. Rather, what matters is the struct

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is not social performance; EQ comes from cognitive discipline and deep analytical self-awareness. These are usually things attributed to IQ. Ironically, many of the people who criticize others for lacking EQ are the ones with low EQ themselves. Their emotional, maternal, or paternal tone reveals it. Instead of disarming the other person or finding common terms through controlled emotional understanding, they put others on the defensive to create a

When people watch a movie and say, “Man, that character was great,” we don’t have to break it down or explain it to anyone. We instinctively know what someone society admires looks and acts like. We feel it. So, the way I see it, that’s the baseline for the right to like ourselves when we look in the mirror. It is that high standard on screen but in our personal lives as the starting point: not an inch lower in quality. We have to ask ourselves if we are that kind of person,

It's really fascinating that every 10 years somebody enters their 30s and starts leading people in their twenties. They transfer to them knowledge on how to keep things going for the rest of the world. This vertical transfer of information is the substrate for increasing human intelligence. The transfer acts like a relay race where one runner hands the baton to the other, only this race is infinite. Our next steps should be to reduce the risk of a loss of transfer relay due t

Arrival  leaves you with the uneasiness of a horror film and a life-changing line from an introspective wise man in a galactic war, exceeding even some of the themes in religious texts around the world. It forces us to confront death in a way never seen before on screen. It creates a view of ourselves only possible through the power of Sci-Fi. The film leverages the impossible to tease us with what we all crave the most: to never die but in a way that is beautiful and not dys