Nick Chow

@nicholasachow

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A university student is a pluripotent stem cell, with an infinite fractal of possibilities ahead of them. But, they must leave behind infinite possibility if they want to actually **be** anything. https://nicholasachow.substack.com/p/the-purgatory-of-endless-possibility

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Been thinking about different definitions of "risk." 1) risk as volatility 2) risk as probability of permanent loss 3) risk as the residual when you think you've thought of everything Any other framings of risk that people find helpful?

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A philosophical approach to why I find builders and thinkers fascinating: https://nicholasachow.substack.com/p/builders-and-thinkers

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I'm a math nerd and like math analogies, so here's one relating life to a sequential decision-making problem (here goes nothing). https://nicholasachow.substack.com/p/how-to-solve-the-game-of-life

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What's the answer to a question you're frequently asked by other people? What does it reveal about you? Been thinking about this recently.

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Still in denial about Federer retiring from tennis, so have to vent somewhere: https://nicholasachow.substack.com/p/why-i-hated-rafael-nadal

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Authenticating my Farcaster account on @perl. [0x249256257ecc4196b6730d5b361111db9d7a076d781c31bd6c609e074d21a97c4689d7d4fb3f609970e729710919b502316435ead57a75043a66316d288d25af1c]

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As software eats the world, you can't be a specialist or a generalist anymore because of how connected disciplines are. Experimenting with the idea of "M-shaped people": https://nicholasachow.substack.com/p/m-shaped-people

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Been thinking about basic emotion primitives, like an eigendecomposition of the emotions space. As a first approximation: Schadenfreude = happiness + jealousy

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The Shirky Principle: Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. Intuit/TurboTax and the millions they spend on lobbying to keep the tax code overly complex is one example. What are some other examples of this?

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