Socrates

Beauty of second degree probes 3 minutes read — 09 Aug 2025

I've been noticing this pattern again and again—just about enough to make this pattern a heuristic for my own understanding. "No lie can overcome a second degree probe" If you probe a lie, just about enough, it reveals itself in due course. At work, I see this all the time. When a statement is just made, in a matter-of-fact way in which it assumes everyone already knows it, and when you ask "why...

Pedagogy of the Uncharted — What for, and Where to? 17 minutes read — 19 Jan 2022

Think about the past year, 2021 for a second. 2021 felt like five years packed into one. — Joe Biden becomes the President of United States. — SpaceX launches an All-Civilian Flight. — Tokyo Olympics happens. — Kabul falls to Taliban. — Historic breakthroughs (Alphafold/Quantum Supremacy etc) — Pandemic is not done yet (far from it) — Rise of NFTs, DAOs etc Against this backdrop, I was tempted to...

Future of Ageing with Mehdi Yacoubi 53 minutes read — 15 Aug 2020

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