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February 24, 2025February 24, 2025Book post

The Monty Hall problem—explained with a causal diagram

[Estimated time: 3 mins] The Monty Hall problem is a famous probability puzzle based on the game show Let’s Make a Deal. […]

February 24, 2025Book post

Simpson’s Paradox—explained with causal diagrams

[Estimated time: 5 mins] Simpson’s paradox appears when a trend that appears in aggregated data disappears or reverses when the groups are […]

January 6, 2025January 6, 2025Book post

Criticisms of The Art of Logic

[Estimated time: 11 mins] As I explained in my summary of The Art of Logic, I generally enjoyed the book except for […]

October 17, 2024January 6, 2025Book post

My quick review of the “Principles in Action” app

[Estimated reading time: 3 mins] As mentioned in my summary of Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio released a Principles in Action […]

October 2, 2024October 2, 2024Book post

Criticisms of The Case Against Education (Pt 3 — Checking the Math)

Estimated reading time: 12 mins This is my final criticism post for Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan. (Click here for my […]

September 23, 2024March 24, 2025Book post

Criticisms of “The Case Against Education” by Bryan Caplan (Pt 2 — Inflated Signalling Estimates)

Estimated reading time: 11 mins  This is the second of three posts criticising Bryan Caplan’s book, The Case Against Education (Click here […]

September 18, 2024October 3, 2024Book post

Criticisms of “The Case Against Education” by Bryan Caplan (Pt 1 — it’s The Case Against Higher Education)

Estimated reading time: 15 mins (or see my conclusion for the 1-min summary) This is the first of three posts criticising The […]

August 26, 2024August 26, 2024Book post

Is it better to be WEIRD?

In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich never claims that WEIRD psychology (as in, the prevailing psychology in Western, Educated, […]

July 24, 2024July 24, 2024Book post

Getting Things Done vs Deep Work

Getting Things Done and Deep Work are both highly influential books in the productivity space. David Allen first published his Getting Things […]

May 21, 2024July 7, 2024Book post

Criticisms of “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt

In this post, I levy several criticisms at Jonathan Haidt’s generally excellent book, The Righteous Mind. You can find my summary of […]

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