Posts tagged with Life
Novelty at Home
There is an unusual landmark a 20-minute drive away from our home: the Pulgas Water Temple. With classic Roman architecture and a grandiose name, you'd think this was a monument displaced halfway around the world, built by…
What I Got Wrong about Grief in Video Games
Video games evoke a broad range of emotions. Satisfaction, when you get past a particularly difficult section. Frustration, getting sniped from across the map for the nth time this round. Excitement, from unlocking a new character and envisioning the new…
Rules of the Game
What are the rules to the game? What game are we even playing? A couple years ago, we caught the Super Bowl on TV, with the 49ers playing in the biggest sporting event of the year. As my son was…
The Differentiation Premium
Recently, I've taken to watching a YouTube channel critiquing mansions. He goes over many of the flaws he finds in these ultra-luxury mansion tours in an entertaining and educational way: interior design mishaps, poorly-planned home layouts,…
Decision Precision
We have become very good at measuring things; it's unclear how that affects our ability to make decisions. Take the Lucid Gravity. It's a new car, with a software interface evolved from their first vehicle—the…
Review: The Last Lecture
On my bookshelf, there's one shelf that I keep a couple of my favorite books, and on occasion, I rotate one book out for another as I finish a hard copy of a book that really stuck with…
