Orange Mind

Comedy Theory

I am working on a theory that would explain how comedy works, and turn the process of writing jokes into an understandable, structured process that anyone can learn. The theory is incomplete, but I had quite a few epiphanies that I think many people may find interesting and useful.

Principles of learning

How to be efficient at learning new skills

List of my favorite books

(startups, personal development, philosophy, autobiographies. The best of everything I’ve read in my life).

Availability Heuristic

The airplane is speeding up and preparing to take off, and you can’t stop imagining it blowing up or being taken over…

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Let’s say you’ve been planning to go see a movie this Friday, and have already bought a ticket, but now that it’s time to go…

False Dichotomy

Taking a complex issue and boiling it down to 2 options when there’s more alternatives…

Rationalization

We do whatever feels good, and then come up with explanations that make us feel better…

Light

There is no justice in the laws of Nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care.

The stars don’t care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don’t have to! We care! There is light in this world, and it’s us!

Developing habits with tracking

For quite a long time I’ve been trying to develop good daily habits, and tracking my progress. I’ve been…