A little more than a year ago I listened to an interview with Annie Duke . Annie’s other name is; the Duchess of Poker. In 1991 Annie was pursuing a Ph.D in psychology when she decided to give it all up and play professional poker. In this interview Annie discusses how she approached decision making…
Month: June 2021
Changing the world requires sacrifice
We play it too safe. We spend our lives trying to please others, trying to fit in; not stand out. And we end up small, hiding and obedient. As humans we tell ourselves we’re free, but it’s an illusion. We are surrounded by instructions, by people telling us what to do and how to live….
On the strangeness of work
The idea of work is strange. We spend eight hours of our day with people we don’t know very well, doing tasks for other people who pay us. We label these tasks ‘work’. And anything that isn’t work is ‘leisure’ time, or just ‘life’. Most of us make a clear and rigid distinction between the…