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Human Factors

I tend to follow a recurring pattern when learning new processes or skills. Though there is some inevitable crossover in these things, I tend to first learn ‘how’ and then eventually I become obsessed with ‘why’.
I think of this as the theory phase and it never ends. I’m very interested in theory. [...]

People of Earth

I read an interview a few years ago where Bill Gates said that one of the things he learned in college was that there were a lot of people smarter than him. And though there are plenty of people you meet in school that aren’t very smart at all, he was right. It’s [...]