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Sunk Cost Fallacy and My Struggle with It
I went to have a driving test a few days ago and I failed because of one simple mistake — moving off without giving way. I was quite devastated because I had spent 40 hours plus thousands of pounds taking driving lessons. Rationally, that is just the sunk cost and should be ignored but I still feel very upset and even lost sleep because of it. That made me reflect on why I experienced this.
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To update or not to update, that is the question
Picking up a coding project that I haven’t touched for a year or two, I have come to expect that nothing about it still works and I need to update all of its components and my code to get it to work again. I didn’t realize how strange this was until I compared it to other things. If I leave a book unattended for many years, it won’t just fall apart for no reason and if I pick up my camera after a few years, it will still take pictures.
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Cloud Computing is the Future (But not Game Streaming)
No one nowadays buys a generator to generate electricity; rather, we buy it as a finished product from power plants delivered through the grid, but why is it that people still buy computers instead of buying the finished product, which is computing power delivered through the internet?
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Why Decentralised Web Fails
Recently, or rather a few years ago, there has been quite some buzz with web 3.0 powered by blockchain. To me, this is complete nonsense. Technology before blockchain is more than enough to enable a decentralized web. Decentralization did not happen rather because it is inefficient and therefore outcompeted by centralization.
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Launching of Bi-Weekly Blog Posts
I wanted to start writing a blog post every two weeks for a long time but I kept delaying it. Recent events with the YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips pushed me to finally publish this blog post.