The four-fold pattern: decisions under risk

Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space.

When in Rome, we think like Romans

The relevance of relativity

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. — Herman Melville

The Intuitive and the Rational Self

(I am large, I contain multitudes)

— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

The world we inhabit is effectively infinite but our only tool for understanding and navigating that world…

You have to see it to believe it

They say seeing is believing but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

— Errol Morris

The Basics of Bitcoin

Venturing a bit off-topic for this blog again, but enough of my friends have asked me these questions over email and in person that I thought it would be worth writing up my thoughts so they would be easy to share. Here’s what we’ll be going over: