Deferred Satisfaction
In a world gone hedonistic on us, is it wise to defer your satisfaction? What is the difference between pleasure and happiness?
Humor, Work and Life, Parenting, Philosophy, Physics
Philosophy
Philosophy is never too far from physics. It is in their overlap that I expect breakthroughs.
My Life, My Way
Early retirement — wisdom or foolhardiness? You be the judge!
Work and Life, Corporate Life, Life and Death, Philosophy
Rules of Conflicts
The last post in this series on Games that People play, this piece looks at how rules can be so designed as to generate conflicts that ensure stability.
Life and Death, Philosophy
Game of Life
How to understand life in terms of its underlying rules. Evolutionarly biology first.
Philosophy, Humor, Work and Life, Corporate Life
Art of Corporate War
Exploring the rules and nature of the corporate game that a vast majority of us play on a daily basis.
Philosophy, Physics, Work and Life
Rules of the Game
This is the introductory post on a short series on the rules of the games that people play, and where to look for predictability.
Do You Believe in God?
Don’t answer that! I can tell you whether you believe in God or not.
Pride and Prejudice
The speeches that Swami Vivekananda gave about 120 years ago in Chicago, and on the origins of pride. And of shame.
Home No More
On the loss of a second parent, and its implications.
Was Yours, Now Mine
This article is a follow-up to my last post on what was troubling my conscience. This is also a rant on the modern capitalism of the corporate era, where we have all become tiny cogs in a giant wheel inexorably rolling on to nowhere in particular, but obliterating much in the process.
Humor, Life and Death, Philosophy, Physics
Everything and Nothing
If somebody asks you what you are, here is one way to answer.