Philosophy

In a High-Tech Future We Trust — Many of us believe firmly in a Star Trek world to come, where technology and science would eventually have an answer to every problem we face today: from cancer to infinite growth on a finite planet. (Not that these are two different things at all.) This vision of the future…

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” ― Bertrand Russell, paraphrased. There are many religions, some as old as the first ancient civilizations that appeared. Hinduism is the oldest, emerging as long ago as the 15th century BC. The next was Zoroastrianism around 10 BC…

What Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book on probability & randomness can teach data professionals — Nassim Taleb is a former financial derivatives trader and probability researcher, his book ‘The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable’ highlights how highly improbable events impact our daily life and financial markets. Unsurprisingly, it has plenty of lessons for data professionals since quantitative finance and data science both…

The forthcoming virtual conference from the Plato’s Academy Centre is about how Stoicism, and other Greek philosophies, can help all of us to become better leaders. Whether you’re a CEO, involved in politics, a teacher, a parent, or just interested in the philosophy of leadership — this is for you…

“Hi. My name’s Empty, Empty Book. I love to wear shiny white pages, clean from the nastiness of charcoal that pencils can leave. I really think that I’m handsome, but people don’t think so. They keep telling me that I’m useless and this really makes me sad.” The story of…

The Galileo Project searches in the Earth’s atmosphere and in space for artificial objects that were manufactured by extraterrestrial technological civilizations. In recent interviews, I was repeatedly asked how our research team will distinguish natural from artificial origins? My answer was simple: if an object does not look or behave…

I want to share a few insightful questions to ask ourselves regarding how to live our life. One of my CMU friends brought these questions up to me, and it was good for me to think through these topics when I wasn’t sure about my next step in life. I…