Sisyphus takes us back to school – Nigeria and Her Excesses – Marcus Crassus drinks a cup of molten gold – The Mathematical Approximation of Sisyphus’s Dilemma – Epicurus, Orgasm, and his friends. Happiness is expensive. If you don’t believe me, a quick call to a local psychologist will do, your eighty-something year old grandmother Read More
Subtitle: Judging What We Do Not Know This Low-Carb Thingy, My Keto Flu – 9/11 Averted by a US Politician – Nigeria 0 Croatia 2 – Barcelona’s Rakitic and Madrid’s Modric This Low-Carb Thingy, My Keto Flu Last week, I found myself in pains, just enough to make me feel very, very uncomfortable. It came Read More
Book – Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006) by Carol Dweck. I rarely write book reviews, even though I had love to (I will blame Grad school for that). However, I decided to write this because of its lesson – simple yet profound. I have listened to several talks by Prof. Carol Dweck, a celebrity Read More
Sisyphus takes us back to school – Marcus Crassus drinks a cup of molten gold – Happiness has to be something much, much, deeper. Happiness is expensive. If you don’t believe me, a quick call to a popular psychologist in your home town will do, your 90-year-old grandmother, or perhaps, if you are not impatient Read More
Around 398AD, the now modern day Madagascar found herself in a state of economic and moral quagmire – the prices of the commodity skyrocketed and the kingdom was practically bankrupt, crime rates quadrupled within a year, Parents sell children for money (while some children sold parents for food), and for the folks who can’t – Read More
Let’s start with a very hypothetical stereotype: Cosmologists make bad spouses. In this world, your mum (and possibly grandma, probably before she died) will warn you from say, age 7, to never date anyone who aspires to be a cosmologist, and she would probably tell you specifically that marrying one should be restricted completely to Read More
Let’s start with a very hypothetical stereotype: Cosmologists make bad spouses. In this world, your mum (and possibly grandma, probably before she died) will warn you from say, age 7, to never date anyone who aspires to be a cosmologist, and she would probably tell you specifically that marrying one should be restricted completely to Read More
Bale terrific free kicks at the Euro games – Peccadilloes like the text message of the past week – Bill gates famous regrets – while action weighs ounces, but inaction weighs tons (at least if taken less literally). My very last discussion with Petros (my friend from 2 blogs ago) entails the usual intellectual mesmerizing Read More
SHOW ME YOUR HAPPINESS-GOAL AND I WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO EXPECT. I have continued to fibble with an happiness hypothesis I formed from several penetrating reads I had earlier in the year. Hypothesis: Our lives are replete with a plethora of illusions about what will make us happy, that we continue to remain – Read More
Incentives and disincentives literally drives the world. Knowing how to manage both determines the success and the failure of any state or an individual. I will argue that this will be the solitary reason that will most justify the ostensible backwardness in the African continent compared to other progressive continents. Impunity metastases when you fail Read More