How to Live Your Life
If you are not quite sure how to live your life, let me tell you how. Just kidding, it is not my place to decide for you what your life should be. Then again, I can certainly share my thoughts on the issue on my blog, right?
Topical
Includes posts on physics, philosophy, sciences, quantitative finance, economics, environment etc.
Philosophy, Science
Free Will — An Illusion?
Are our lives just moving along on their own preordained paths, while we, like the epiphenomenal froth, think that we have control and free will?
Philosophy
Mind over Matter
Mind and matter is a problem in philsophy — how does a non-material mind make changes to the material world around us? Of course, it is a problem only in philsophy. We all know how to move about and do physical stuff, no mystery there. Still…
Quotes, Philosophy
Love of Wisdom
What is the purpose of philosophy? And why are philosophers paupers?
Corporate Life, Life and Death, Philosophy
Midlife Crisis
On what is important in life. And what is not.
Ghost of Gravity
Some beliefs are superstitions, while some others are scientific theories. What exactly is the difference between them? Let’s listen to what Pirsig has to say about it.
Philosophy, Physics, Science
Only a Matter of Time
Here is an unreal look at the what and why of time. Why do we have a sense of time when none of our five senses can sense it?
Philosophy, Physics, Science
Half a Bucket of Water
When philosophers look at anything, it becomes a bit technical. Their technical analysis may sound boring and irrelevant. Here is an attempt to tilt things in their favor.
Books, Philosophy, Physics, Science
On Rationality and Delusions
What do we mean by rationality? Why do we think it is a good thing to be rational?
Books, Quantitative Finance
Principles of Quantitative Development
A review of my forthcoming book, “Principles of Quantitative Development,” to be published by John Wiley & Sons in Feb 2010. This review is written by Shayne Fletcher, Executive Director, Nomura, and author of “Financial Modelling in Python,” reproduced here with permission.
Work and Life, Quantitative Finance
How to Make Money
Switching from God, philosophy and other higher pursuits, here is a topic close to home. How do people make a lot of money? Can I do it too?