interests

A rule of thumb for allocating time:

• 2/3 focused pursuit
  • Goal: narrow depth; achieve mastery over decades. Pick one thing to go deep on and expand outwards.
• 1/3 exploration
  • Goal: shallow breadth to satisfy curiosity.

idly curious §

I’m interested in understanding:

• how we learn, feel, think, and act:
  • neuroscience, cognitive science
  • psychology, decision theory, game theory
• fundamental truths and the rules of the game:
  • philosophy
  • physics
• how to build the future:
  • history, policy, geopolitics
  • economics, finance
  • systems engineering and design

professionally curious §

I’m committed to mastering statistics.

Why: The world is inherently stochastic. A strong grasp of the underlying mechanics of this randomness is crucial for improving one’s judgement and decision-making.

Adjacent fields of interest: computer science -> AI -> machine learning -> deep learning

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related: what to work on, learning