Articles
A thinker or a work, and one idea to think, decide and learn better. Philosophy, history, art and myth applied to work and life.
What Is Up to Us
The Stoics and the dichotomy of control: where to put your energy when everything feels uncertain.
What Do I Know?
Montaigne and the essay as method: writing by hand to discover what you really think.
May the Road Be Long
Cavafy and «Ithaca»: the destination is the pretext; what makes you rich is the journey.
Fast and Slow
Kahneman, the mind's biases and why knowing them is not enough to dodge them.
The Shipwreck That Was Voted For
The Athenian expedition to Sicily: overconfidence and the value of the premortem.
The Courage to Think
Kant's ‘sapere aude’ and the new immaturity: what happens when we hand our thinking over to the algorithm.
Tying Yourself to the Mast
Ulysses and the Sirens: tying yourself to the mast, or how to decide today to protect yourself from your future self.
Llull's Wheel
The Ars combinatoria, the medieval dream of a thinking machine, and what it tells us about artificial intelligence.
The Fall No One Watches
Bruegel and «The Fall of Icarus»: attention as a decision. What we look at and what we ignore.
Examine Before Deciding
Socrates and the maieutic method: the uncomfortable question that should precede every important decision.