Not to be confused: Money, wealth, and value

Money, wealth, and value are often confused, as they may be correlated. Having a clear idea of what they are and their differences is important to avoid mistakes that can lead to not having any.

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The technological singularity is beyond human capabilities

As humans we can evolve and become something else, or we can become extinct without spawning new species, but there is something that we cannot do: create a technological singularity.

Speculating on aliens, intelligence, and simulations. Stay focused.

Speculating is fun, but ultimately useless. This post may serve as an example, and then a morale on that.

The human brain is an ape brain, not a computer.

Consider the number of cognitive biases, how the important decisions belong to the “heart” not the brain. Human reason is nothing when compared with human rationalization.

Hard and soft skills. Management and technical roles. False dichotomy, unnecessary conflict.

Nowadays, most work is team work today, and soft skills are more important than hard skills. How can companies promote soft skills? Focusing on the hard ones, or delegating.

Ego, hypocrisy, and pragmatism

If you find someone with a huge ego, you can know for certain that such a person is shit as a professional and a human being, and vice versa.

Mathsplaining mansplaining, “EvoPsych” version

Mansplaining is real and there are attempts at explaining why it happens. In this post I take a deeper and more theoretical or fictional approach, from evolutionary psychology.