Why we are inclined to support those who fool us and how to break out of it. The modern world is caught up in a tsunami of lies. You may want to blame Trump for this who broke all records, making no fewer than 30, 573 false of misleading statements during the four years of his presidency, but the trend didn’t start with him. Before him Obama…

What you need to know. — I don’t really have a crystal ball that can forecast the future and neither does anyone else I know. This is not the same as saying however that the future is entirely opaque to us. …

How to overcome the limitations you allow yourself to experience. — In the iconic, 1999 movie The Matrix, there is a moment when Morpheus tells Neo that in order to achieve his full potential he needs to open up his mind to the possibilities presented by his realization that the present is now different to what he’d assumed it was. He…

The world is complex but we can determine how it works when we try. — Chaos Theory has been romanticized with the so-called “butterfly effect” where “the flap of the wings of a butterfly in the Amazon causes a tornado in Texas”. Preposterous as this may sound it is less unlikely than you think and the science behind it is explained in the video below.

And why you should be too. — It really doesn’t matter when you read this. But if you’re reading it now, just on this side of 2022, you know that the year behind us has been abysmal. And the year before that was pretty bad too. …

I don’t write a lot about semantic search these days. The primary reason is that after five books on the subject including the ground-breaking Google Semantic Search I’ve grown bored of covering the same ground just for the sake of gaining a little more search-visibility as an authority on the…

There are three things that are evidentially wrong with our world right now: First, across the globe we see a polarization of opinions in people of different political and ideological camps that has widened the gap between dissenting world views. Second, we have the rise of information bubbles that act…

The balance we seek starts from within. — In my very early teens I came across a line in Confucius’ teachings titled The Great Learning that has always stayed with me: “What truly is within will be manifested without.” It is beautiful, pithy, intuitive enough to make us thing we completely understand it and vague enough to readily…