#1: Why this blog

December 10, 2020•73 words

To share:

Notes, thoughts and ideas about new things I am learning
Perspective on how I look at the world
Nuggets from my reporting which did not make it to published articles
Links to interesting things on the web—articles, research papers, videos, podcasts—and what I learnt from it
To think in public. I will write about the uncertainties I battle with and the missing parts in my understanding.

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#2: Why the event-oriented structure of news doesn't help in understanding how the world works

December 10, 2020•427 words

In 2020, I significantly reduced the proportion of daily news consumption in my information diet. And I strongly recommend the same to others: less of news and more of books. There are many reasons why, and I will list them in a future post. Here is one compelling argument from the book Thinking in Systems (by Donella H. Meadows) about the fundamental limitation of incremental news stories: Systems fool us by presenting themselves—or we fool ourselves by seeing the world—as a series of events....

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