book review The History of the World is a History of Ideas I came to this book as someone interested in the technology history enthuasist. Fifty Inventions turns out to be not only about the tech but includes ideas such as management
Future A Collapse of Community and Our Reaction Towards Meritocracy and Patriotism I've had fortune to travel across Armenia in the past months. There I realize there's something warm about how people interact with me that is different from my hometown in
book review We Don't Need To Be Studying Anthropology Book Anthro-visionThis is another book where she's successfully cashed out of the impossible humanity major to make money on. These people start off their career writing, realize there's no money,
book review $100 Starutp - Still True In 2022? While my goal was not to live the freedom or dream job I'd like, the book offered many anecdtotal experience with financial information. The book has been around for 10
book review Money Script is Family Script Book Mind Over Money by Brad Klontz and Ted KlontzBrad Klontz brings out recent psychology research especially on family trauma and connect the dots. The book is full of anecdotal
book review Sample Wide, Make Analogy, Predict Better - Generalists' Triumphs Generalist is a book that came in response to Grit where everyone is crazy about obsessive specialization. I was initially conflicted. This book smelled new-agey and self-fulfilling; "I want all
book review Learn From Mistakes This book is a strange kind of self-help. Instead of bullet-point takeaways, he grinds you with stories. The narratives are centered on the idea "to learn from mistakes" and its
Future Oversocialized Rats In Our Big City Our cities are filled with people more than ever. That trend continues to go on. More than 50 years ago, one American scientist tries to answer what the consequence would
book review Drinking Brought Ape Culture Into Success I do notice drinking is increasingly viewed as vice. Good life today is all about eating vegetables, hitting gym, and mastering meditation. It's all about detox life. Edward Slingerland makes
book review Time To Drive Over That Mountain of Lifespan With my surprise, David Sinclair beats many of the professional science writers. This science researcher writes his materials so eloquently with metaphors and his family story. I liked every metaphor
Future Ion Engine as an Alternative Cheap Flight Engine In 2018, MIT professor, Steven Barrett, made a demo plane that flies on ionic engine. It flew for 60m inside the gym. It was said to be the first flight
book review The Brilliance of Ayn Rand I read this book thinking it was great, only to be surprised how many haters are on the reviews. That just proves how unique the book is. I read tons
Future When Will We See Hydrogen Planes? Cost-Effect When diving into new innovation, it's important to determine what featuers of the technology has fundamentally shifted. When it was cars, the arrival of gasoline changed the landscape completely. It
Future When Will We Fly To New York at $100 - Historical Price Trend Source: The Atlantic Look at the graph here. The average price started off at $600 in 1980, now getting dropped to $360 of 2013 (the latest data in 2019 prepandemic
Future Possibility of Manufacturing Cheap Planes Planes are expensive as we all can guess. The cost can easily start close to $2 million as an entrant. The causes you can list endlessly: over regulation, lack of
book review First Flight From New York To Paris in 1927 We're truly gifted that Charles Lindbergh left this memoir with such vivid detail. The story was so lively. The recall of the night before the takeoff. When he wants to
Future Is there a TSP optimization opportunity in Amazon delivery? In the last post, we've taken a look at Amazon driver experience. They are assigned by the block of neighbourhood. They are assigned by dots. Choosing the route of delivery
Future Traveler Salesman in Amazon Flex As we dived in last in Canada Post delivery, the route is often fixed and rarely change in the system (even though new guys have to cover different routes, the
Future Current Limit of Traveler Salesman - Delivery Today, traveler salesman problem gives up with the capacity of 22 cities. That is the theoretical limit. The commercial limit with reasonable execution time must be somewhere around 10. What
Future What Does Traveler Salesman Problem Look Like In 2021? I recently encountered the idea of traveler salesman problem with one of the foreseen advancement in the quantum computing era. To be honest, I heard of it as calculating the
book review Can Quantum Computer be used for Machine Learning? Quantum computing is advancing rapidly. But how exactly quantum computing fits in the training is hard to tell. The discussions revolved low level to for engineers. I'll try to digest
Future Why is Private Jet So Expensive? I touched previously on Airplane Cost is Too Much on the historical narrative around airplanes getting stuck at high price. That post was made to draw contrast with automobiles that
What are the ways manufacutring get cheap, drastically Last time, I talked about private planes being very expensive. I mean how many of us know someone who owns a plane? It doesn't work. The cheapest private jet is Cirrus Vision Jet which starts at $1.96 million. That's insane. Only corporations and
Airplane Cost is Too Much Why does every family own a car but. In 1940s, one of the Nazi propaganda was to have every family own a car. That's how Volkswagon started in fact. German
book review Life Expectancy Extends at Constant or Increasing Pace? He proposes inequality in health. That's explained in case study of tobacco health effect. Tobacco's popularity spiked in the early 20th century only to fall down in the latter half.
