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Readiness/prepared to launch: what motivates it
Almost 20 years down the line, what Dr. Sax wrote in “Boys Adrift” still rings very true today. This certainly applies to the five...
Mar 13, 20252 min read
Appearance and reality
Plato cautioned about appearance (illusion) in the Republic. Still it sometimes feels irony to see things (eg metrics) looks so fabulous...
Mar 13, 20251 min read
Strong women
Take charge and being in control (a more stereotypical masculine strait) have propelled human evolution. This trait is also often visible...
Mar 13, 20251 min read
Gaming the system
Systems always have loopholes, and there are always opportunists who can gain from these. But is it necessarily a problem that gamers get...
Mar 12, 20251 min read
Efficiency and AI
Efficiency has become much of the default of the ideal of contemporary world, sometimes at the expenses of quality. However, if someone...
Mar 12, 20251 min read
Gene transfer after fertility
Is it possible to transfer gene modification after birth? if yes, how? if not, does it mean that any gene modification after fertility is...
Mar 6, 20251 min read


Diminishing masculinity?
The ‘assaults’ seem to come from different angles. First, in “Boys Adrift” (published almost 20 years ago by Leonard Sax , 2007), he laid...
Feb 27, 20253 min read
Female educationist
Why famous educationists throughout history, in both West and East--think of Plato, Aristotle, Erasmus, John Dewey, Jean-Jacques...
Feb 27, 20251 min read
New type of business and tax problem?
It's increasingly popular that people are using whatsapp groups to sell things. But besides re-selling, there also seems lots of...
Feb 26, 20251 min read


A case for English literacy (English lit)
My two school-going children have lots of observations and questions about their schooling experiences. One of them is about why there is...
Feb 21, 20253 min read
Materialistic youth
If being materialistic is more of the characteristics of youth, rather than one particular generation (say Gen Z), is the particular...
Feb 21, 20251 min read
Inflammation and immune system
If inflammation is overly active immune reaction, then fighting inflammation can't be to up one's immune system?? Or there is a...
Feb 20, 20251 min read
Choosing the battle and bully
Is choosing the battle still the best recommendation when dealing with bully?
Feb 14, 20251 min read
Conflict resolution
Would someone having vested interest be a sufficient reason to exclude that person (not listening to that person's story/voice at all) in...
Feb 13, 20251 min read
Mirrors
AIs are wonderful mirrors to the whole humanities; and children are wonderful mirrors to ourselves.
Feb 12, 20251 min read
Population dividend in the age of AI
I understand that large population is necessary and important in the early industrial ages (more manpower), but with the rise of AI,...
Feb 11, 20251 min read
leader & follower
If upon leader's absence, an subordinate can't make small decisions, is that a reflection of the subordinate's indecisiveness, or/and the...
Feb 10, 20251 min read
Free will & nature vs nurture
Free will is neither nature (gene) or nurture (environment). So if the combination of nature and nurture is our standard understanding of...
Feb 5, 20251 min read


The behavioral economics of holding on to losing stocks
The rule in the stock market investment is simple: buy low and sell high. This makes intuitive economic sense. Of course, buying low and...
Feb 3, 20252 min read


Holidays and leaves (part 3)
The situation of working during holidays/leaves is most applicable for the part of the job where time boundedness is (relatively) high...
Jan 28, 20253 min read
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