Paying Forward Now
April 5, at around 10:00 p.m., I have driven my car into a bunch of road barriers in the middle of an intersection between two highways,...
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Filipinos at large need to innovate more. Our mental models have to be more adaptive. We need more inputs. We need better processing of inputs. We need to direct outputs where they serve the nation best. Our future looks bleak. It need not be always that.
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Mga Dilemma Natin
Pagpilian kung sino ang tutulungan. Babaeng may sakit na African-American na abandonadong ulila, single mother na may iisang anak pero...
Altruism Wins: “Good Wins Over Evil” Tenet
Predicting how “Good Wins Over Evil” tenet works has mathematical underpinnings The very nature of altruism itself has the same...
Fallacies Dull Everyone's Capacity to Reason
Fallacious forms of reasoning practiced by some communities dull everyone’s capacity to reason -- not only theirs. If my religion is...
White Hat Troll Guidelines
This is about the two rules, among others, with which white hat trolling may be measured or weighed. Mental Models First, white hat...
Kababaihang Kasangga: “Lalaban ako. Lalaban tayo.”
Come EDSA 4.0, if it happens, I am singing this on the streets. Ale, Ale, baka ka makur’yente, Ang lapit-lapit mo na nga sa poste....
Terms We Use
Terms we invent and use determine our conceptual frameworks. Ergo, our theoretical frameworks. Ergo, our mental models. Ergo, our...
Human Connections and Shannon’s Law: Love and Altruism
Not until the advent of Shannon’s Law do we have some satisfactory explanation as to why 99% of eukaryotes reproduce sexually. Since...
Strategic Thinking: Form, Content, and Context
This is about the difficulty of pinning down which strategic thinking is correct and which is not. “If one kilo of rice costs one million...
Coherence
Systems are most reliable when coherent. Unfortunately, I can only argue as a philosopher in support of this. I await for science to...
"Mga Pagkakataong Nakakalito Talaga" Ni Victor Celestino: Feels Like Early 1980s Again
11 Hulyo 1985 Minamahal kong Beth: Tuluyan na akong aalis. Sasama ako kay Clark. Isa nga sa mga namatay ang kaibigan mong si Monette. Ang...
Obedience At Some Cost
“Let me be imprudent,” has been said by a junior faculty member addressing Dr. Jose V. Abueva, then UP president. The occasion has been a...
Wicked Problems
Time the public at large adds "wicked problems" to its toolbox. “Project Moses” has been suggested by one of our board members, a bar...
Darwin, Kropotkin, Boltzmann, Shannon: Geeky World of Politics
Altruism is not a weakness. Survival is not only about survival of the fittest at the level of the individual. Charles Darwin says,...
Liberalismo at Pangangatuwiran
Liberalismo at Pangangatuwiran: Galing sa Isang Lumang Proyekto Ko 27 Pebrero 2008 Kaalaman sa maayos na pangangatuwiran at kaalaman sa...
Changes of Mental Models: Blog Ko from Elsewhere
How do we know we have a crisis? It begins with an anomaly. What is an anomaly? When a community believing in a principle or a system of...
Democracy, Entropy and Generative Adversarial Networks: My Blog from Elsewhere
Entropy dictates everything around us changes. No way around it. What this means for everyone is that everyone needs to be agile,...
Conspiracy Theorists and Rules of Inference as Memes: My blog from Elsewhere
Patterns with which we reason, memes. They are similar to genes in that they, too, determine our phenotypes. As genes determine if we...
Paggamay sa Kapalaran
Pag-alala sa La Liga Filipina, itinatag nang 3 Hulyo 1892. 16 Pebrero 2008, galing ito sa isang project ko kung saan. Ang EDSA Shrine,...
Measure of Leadership
Blog of mine from elsewhere, March 27, 2020. Looks like this needs to be revisited. "There are many kinds of leadership. Everyone knows...