10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings

I remember my first awareness of mortality as a child in Bulgaria. I was nine and my father was relaying … More

The Why of the World – The book of why – Dr Judea Pearl

I hope with this book to convince you that data are profoundly dumb… If causation cannot be reduced to correlation, … More

I spent over 25 hours building a cut-down version of Sapiens. The goal? Future-me should be happy to read this … More

AI will bring many wonders. It may also destabilize everything from nuclear détente to human friendships. We need to think … More

Kim Ung-yong was a child prodigy in South Korea. Now a civil engineer in his 50s, he feels he was … More

Instead of thinking about machine intelligence in terms of humans vs machines, we should consider the system that integrates humans … More

How often can you look at the mountains around here and not be bored? How long can you sit by … More

If life is short, we should expect its shortness to take us by surprise. And that is just what tends to happen. You … More

I used to think of Space as a destination, but now I realize its journey with some amazing milestones along … More