Articles tagged with Philosophy

Philosophy posts on first principles, ethics, judgment, work, behavior, and frameworks for clear thinking without pretending certainty.

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Why Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Is a Masterpiece

I don’t know the last time I rated a movie 10 out of 10. I went to IMDb and found out it was in 2014. I’m more selective now when I watch movies, but that doesn’t change how goo...

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Prisoner's Dilemma

On September 3, 1949, a weather plane was flying over Japan. It detected traces of radioactive isotopes. These elements decay quickly, which means they had been created recently...

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Mevlana Candy

When I was a child, Rumi wasn’t a philosopher or a poet for me. He was candy. Every once in a while, a relative from Konya would visit and bring Mevlana şekeri. The rock sugar a...

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Charlie Munger Quotes

I got to know more about Charlie Munger in the last 10 years. His name came up with Berkshire. I knew he had been in the industry, but I wasn’t really into investing. I apprecia...

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Quotes from Mill

Bilkent had one strange advantage I did not appreciate at the time. They forced engineering students to take humanities seriously. At the time, I probably treated some of those...

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