Rants on economics and learning:

For my sister’s birthday we went to a restaurant I cannot afford. Alpen Rose is the sort of place...

Every fall, Indiana University Bloomington becomes a living artwork of autumn foliage. Walking ar...

As a kid, I would spend the nights before family trips mostly tossing and turning in bed. I would...

(written September 1, 2020)This morning, I hopped out of bed before the alarm woke. Dodging the p...

This weekend’s InsideAI newsletter included writer/venture capitalist/angel investor Rob May’s co...

I’ve been trying to develop my writing and thinking skills. Last week I started taking an online ...

      What if the universe is unified as a large being, and earth is a cell? What if the higher p...

The time is 11:33PM. Sky is pouring snow. I’ve been home for 17 days.It feels as if we are approa...

2019 was when I found out why I’m doing what I’m doing. But on a more micro scale, it was also al...

My time at the LSE was short but rich with reflections on my own discipline.The main thing that I...

This summer, I went to the London School of Economics Summer School for an introductory course in...

Here is a striking figure:(Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario HEQCO, 2013)Figure shows t...

I often complain about how the phrase “how are you” is not a question. “How are you?” people will...

I have insolently listed my professors’ blunders enough in the last two posts. But it’s always ea...

How are you, world? I haven’t checked in for a while. I have been trekking everywhere–last week a...

January was.. how do I put it? Stimulating. I took part in a few activities and was utterly consu...

I had a good year with lots of learning.2018 was definitive in my economics studies. It was arriv...

It’s been a while. I’ve been having too much fun hacking other things and too much pain studying ...

That we pursue higher education for better job prospect was an entirely foreign concept to me onl...

I wrote in the previous post that you don’t know what you don’t know, and that can be harmful. Th...

(The feature image is, of course, Plato raising a finger in The School of Athens.)There is this p...

Last semester was my first semester after transferring into upper sophomore year at the Universit...

One time a couple of weeks ago, my friend Greg stopped me at the doorstep to jubilantly tell me “...

Russia FIFA 2018 may seem a season away now, but the glory of it remains. Paris, in particular, i...

We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us.– Andrew Ryan in BioshockAre our choic...

Adam Smith by Patric ParcMany people have asked this, many times, myself included. Multiple reaso...