Shaan and I went out for a stroll around the neighbourhood. We don't often do this, but it is the highlight of my day when we do. I love listening to Shaan's thoughts about life, the universe and everything. At least everything that Shaan has known in all twelve years of his life. Children often bring a fresh and unique perspective to things. Their thinking may be naive, but it's not clouded by the hurts and baggage of the past.
Month: April 2011
Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education.
Thiel isn’t totally alone in the first part of his education bubble assertion. It used to be a given that a college education was always worth the investment– even if you had to take out student loans to get one. But over the last year, as unemployment hovers around double digits, the cost of universities soars and kids graduate and move back home with their parents, the once-heretical question of whether education is worth the exorbitant price has started to be re-examined even by the most hard-core members of American intelligentsia. via Michael Immordino
I often worry about how I'm going to help my kids pay for college and still save for retirement. My wife and I joke that we might have to retire somewhere cheap, like the South Pole. It took us years to pay off our student loans. It might take our kids a lifetime to pay off theirs. I'm planning to steer them in the direction of entrepreneurship.
The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science | Chris Mooney
We're not driven only by emotions, of course—we also reason, deliberate. But reasoning comes later, works slower—and even then, it doesn't take place in an emotional vacuum. Rather, our quick-fire emotions can set us on a course of thinking that's highly biased, especially on topics we care a great deal about. via Mother Jones.
I think many of us “bat shit crazy humans“ view the “The Truth” from a singular point of view. When it comes to religion, reasoning no longer exist. We all think we have the capacity to know/understand the intent of a higher being. Yep, bat shit crazy.
