philosophy
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Years ago, one of my favorite mentors shared his view that if you don’t understand an idea well enough to explain it using an analogy, you don’t understand it. In hindsight, I think this was his version of the quote attributed to Einstein that “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Over
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It seems that people have been inventing stories to make sense of events for as long as people have been. Nassem Taleb, in Fooled by Randomness, commented about people’s tendency to create narratives to explain events. In his view, people tended to create deterministic narratives to explain random events or outcomes that resulted from uncertainty. Taleb believes that “You
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Each of our kids is learning things that have stretched my mind. This includes places where I have learned (or relearned) math and philosophy just to keep up. On the math front, I have had to relearn some calculus and differential equations to keep up and help with homework. That has been more enjoyable than
Musings of an Analyst 