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The difference lies in how you are rewarded. When you work as a startup founder, the distance between you and the market or society is very close. However, if you get a job as a chemical engineer, for example, there is a middleman involved. That middleman is a company pursuing financial profit. Looking at these…
The Problem: Education Serves Two Masters Modern education does two things at once, and does neither particularly well. The first function is learning — absorbing knowledge, building mental models, developing skills. The second is selection — sorting people into hierarchies of perceived competence. Grades, standardized tests, admissions processes, degrees — these are filters. They exist…
I’m currently 10k USD in debt. “It’s responsible that you take a part-time now.” “I think you’re too focused, your thoughts are muddled.” One year in, I started losing people. Those who once admired what I did started trying to convince me to slow down and wake up from the dreams. The truth is that…
I still like to believe that it was better than nothing. The only bitter part of the reality is that whatever you envisioned to be the future, turns out to be a page in the play book that didn’t get played on the stage. To announce an ending to something that you have poured so…
There are two layers when it comes to information (or knowledge). First layer is nuance. It is the currency of thought processes in our brains. It is real, useful and effective. Second layer is the text (or langauge). I call this text but it can be anything like written texts, verbalized acoustic waves, drawings, pixels…
I recently built a browser extension that gives you a contextual explanation on any text you highlight on a web. And this product can be used as a material to think about this ‘Fundamentalism way of thinking’ that I frequently talk about. So, let’s look at the product: On the surface level: it’s like google…
This is an article that provides one of many possible outlooks on life. I don’t know about you, but I think about my life a lot. I kinda spent my entire childhood doing it. Starting off with the so called ‘what’s-the-meaning-of-life’ kind of question and chasing down this rabbit hole has been my specialty. I…
See what people spend their time and money on. And see what make them emotional (angry, happy, sad, etc). Look for the things that ‘matter’ to them. Any value that could potentially be monetized can be traced through these signals. it’s not easy, but it’s a good starting point. One very interesting thought I had…
[Assuming you are a leader of a society] What is pedophilia? What is an adult and what is a child? Why is it wrong for an adult to have sex with a minor? What is wrong with rape? Why does pedophilia cause so much public fury? How much of those are fake justice? What are…
Say you are ignorant, you want to learn something. Mathematics, computer science, chemistry, engineering, or you just simply want to learn to build a rocket. I’m usually against textbooks when you are trying to achieve something that is business related, but if your objective is to learn, textbooks are pretty sweet. I don’t think people…
If you want to do good work, the first thing you have to do is to get rid of the idea of doing good work. Especially about productivity. Just drop everything you know about “working”. The next step is to define the objective, the goal. then you get down to planning. Find the shortest path…
To go from point A to B, there are a lot of paths you can take, both mathematically and in real life. This article is about my observations and reflections on how to move from point A to B in real life, on how to think about the problem and how to achieve the goal.…
The first kind of work is the kind of work that makes people like you. Something that either appeals to our animalistic instinct or something that is packaged in such a way that when people see it they think you have got something. The second kind of work is the kind of work that’s extremely…
Korean universities need to change. I’m not paying 3~4k USD every semester to just listen to people explaining how to print out “hello world” on a computer screen or engage in a debate on whether AI is going to destroy us or not. Basic chemistry and physics should be a prerequisite – not as courses…
May 8, 2023
my cat, we picked him up from the street on a stormy day
Dec 23, 2024
discharge. some photos, a letter and coins from deployment
Nov 7, 2025
my voice is in a film, guess which one
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