Most people seem to give Facebook more credit that it deserves. Some have even run away from it. They are worried that Facebook will get to their heads. That it will over power them and take over their minds. Those who stay get stressed out about what everyone else is…

Despite popular doctrine in most religious texts, I don't think suffering is the essence of human being. Instead, I think it puts a limit on what you can allow yourself to do. It keeps you grounded. And for you to reach your fullest potential, you have to uproot suffering right…

Education will make you smarter. And, it will also cost you a lot of time and happiness because you have to master skills that you'd otherwise never have found use for if someone else hadn't told you that you'd need them in the first place. With this sacrifice, it is…

Technically, there is really no proof yet that AI will catch up with humanity any time soon. But if you look at it from a historical and philosophical point of view, the idea of singularity is inevitable. Man’s craving for ease! The idea of getting the most rewards for the…

The people that you let go are those who truly become your friends. You’re competing with or responsible for the rest. If you want to achieve as much or even more than an idol — dead or alive — you cannot use the same idol as away to measure your…

Kagame is not the greatest leader of all time. No one ever is, or was. Kagame, though, is the best president for Rwanda today because he is improving things. He seems to have generally accepted values and good intentions. His actions also show that he is mostly true to his…

Leading and winning aren’t the same thing. While with leading you’re encouraging your followers to step up and catch up with you so that you can move on to the next thing, winning is about keeping your competitors down so that you can keep your position at the top. Great…

The trick is believing. You have to believe that there is something or someone out there who has all the power to change everything and that he or she has your best interests at heart. Christians call this faith in God. I call it believing in myself. But like the…

Most of the time when I argue to prove that I’m right, I instead end up tricking myself into believing what I need to believe to be right. And more often than not, this is far from the truth. …