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    Numeracy: How to quiet your fears using probabilities

    I think that story telling is an excellent way to introduce mathematical concepts applied in real life scenarios. I think that it is an effective way to draw people’s attention (kids and adults alike!) and to help people move from concrete ideas (stories) to abstract ideas (theories, formulas). Ultimately, I think mathematics is a super…


  • Climbing Celeste

    A few months back, I wrote about one of the mental models I use called The Mountain. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend you check it out first! It sets up the following article as an application of that mental model, while the original article sets up the concept and the theory.…


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    The Mountain: How to achieve difficult goals

    Achieving greatness, like reaching the top of a mountain, is a great undertaking that requires discipline and practice on a solid foundation of safety and driven with a desire for growth. This blog post provides practical tips and strategies for achieving difficult goals, using the metaphor of climbing a mountain as a framework. A journey…


  • The Stairs: How to clarify complexity and clear fog of war

    This blog post uses Stairs as a visual illustration of the concept of complexity and gradience. It is the reversal of things being “black and white”. Stairs distinguish the difference between different floors with multiple steps in between them. This difference between the floors illustrate progression, a form of uni-dimensional complexity. It is uni-dimensional because…