This post was first sent to my newsletter on November 7th, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) What I Learnt from Antifragile (IV) In a world with too much choice … Lindy is the cure via Screenrant So here’s a little distinction I learnt. We, who are about to die, mortals need to become antifragile. We know, we are going to die someday, and are always being buffeted by the storms of life, so we seek to get stronger. ...
My email program, was somehow hacked into last week, and close to 3000 spam mails were sent out in the course of a few minutes. While I was able to serendipitously catch it as soon as it happened, I apologise if you were the recepient of unsavoury stuff from my email address. I am now in the process of rebuilding everything. letter at janusworx dot com is the new home from where these letters will be sent from. Please add this address to your contacts, so that I do not end up in your spam :) ...
This post was first sent to my newsletter on November 30th, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) Now that life is picking back up, I have slowed down on the reading. I stuck to fiction this month. Only this month was at my normal pace 😄 The speed demon of September and October is no more 😂 Actually I stuck with Jack Reacher this month. I thought I would be done with him, but he does not seem to be done with me. There was another new Reacher published last month, to be tacked on to the end of the queue. ...
This post was first sent to my newsletter on November 2nd, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) Nothing really exciting this month. I had lots of work and could not quite focus on reading hard books or non fiction. I needed to escape from the humdrum of life So, I read a lot of Jack Reacher. I decided to read all of the Lee Child novels featuring the character. And all of that, started because I read a book, that followed Lee Child around for a year, describing his writing process and the work that goes into a Reacher novel. It’s been fun, reading. Like meeting an old friend. Considering that he writes about one a year, I find it slightly alarming that I have now read seventeen years of Child’s work in a month. ...
This post was sent to my newsletter on October 25th, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) What I Learnt from Antifragile (III) What Does Not Kill Me … Antifragility for the Collective What does not kill me makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Maxims and Arrows The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ...
This post was sent to my newsletter on October 18th, 2020 You really ought to subscribe :) What I Learnt from Antifragile (II) I fell sick and missed writing last week. I have to live up the name of the news letter, anyhoo. It would not be erratic without me whiffing once in a while, non? Apologies all around, anyway! The Barbell Heuristic to Taking Risks Basically a shortcut to figuring out whether you ought to do something or not, based on the risks it entails. How do we take a decision, when we don’t know all the pros and cons? How do we decide in an uncertain world? Simply put, ...