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. Threatening weather, threats to our democracy, threat to our health and…

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…

We need to understand what it is we experience in order to better guide our path through our life. — If a tree falls in the forest and you’re not there to see it, does it make any noise? More than that, if you’re not there to see it did the tree even fall and does it even exist? That, in a nutshell, is the question posed by Solipsism and…

The moments that change you forever — You know just how the camel feels when its back gives out because a single straw added to its load ends up breaking its back. You’ve felt like this many times before. Different contexts. Different lives. The person you are now has come out of those moments. Those past instances…