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Ian Geckeler

Ian Geckeler

Human Engineering

In 2018, engineered humans jumped out of the pages of Brave New World and into a lab in Shenzhen China, as the first genetically…

Apr 30, 2020

Apr 30, 2020

Ian Geckeler

Beliefs are magnets, humans are iron filings

In the spring of 1997, police found 39 dead bodies in a San Diego home. The house was the scene of a mass ritual suicide of the religious…

Apr 19, 2020

Apr 19, 2020

Ian Geckeler

What’s the minimum information required to live well?

We’re all drowning in a sea of information. The average processing speed of a human brain is 60 bits per second, but collectively we…

Jan 12, 2020

What’s the minimum information required to live well?

Jan 12, 2020

Ian Geckeler

The Cybernetic Loop: Cheat Codes For Life

Scroll to the bottom for a tldr.

Jan 11, 2020

The Cybernetic Loop: Cheat Codes For Life

Jan 11, 2020

Ian Geckeler

Books To Expand Your Perspective

Books are like software. One of the most interesting classes of books are those which update your OS for how you interpret the world…

Dec 17, 2019

Books To Expand Your Perspective

Dec 17, 2019

Ian Geckeler

The Two Questions that Changed My Life

Inputs and Outputs

Jun 13, 2018

The Two Questions that Changed My Life

Jun 13, 2018

Ian Geckeler

Writing/Creating is Hard

Why Writing in this Reality Sucks

Jun 11, 2018

Writing/Creating is Hard

Jun 11, 2018

Ian Geckeler

Why Our Brains Can’t Be Trusted

Everybody makes mistakes, here’s one of mine

May 22, 2018

Why Our Brains Can’t Be Trusted

May 22, 2018

Ian Geckeler

The World is Complex

Interconnectivity

May 13, 2018

The World is Complex

May 13, 2018

Ian Geckeler

Creating as Play

From my early to late tweens my favorite activity was playing with Legos. Over many years, I amassed quite a collection of the trademarked…

Mar 25, 2018

Mar 25, 2018

Ian Geckeler

Ian Geckeler

I’m a software engineer obsessed with distilling lessons from the very best role models and resources. Find me at iangeckeler.com

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