Tag: Illusion

Have you ever been programming, listening to songs in background, crushing it when suddenly Test failed: Expected ligma got balls, lol have fun figuring this one out bud The same thing happened to me when I was working on the LeetCode problem Minimum fuel to report to capital. It is a p...

In our contemporary society, the longing for strong role models and father figures has never been more pronounced. It’s within this context that figures like Andrew Tate have risen to prominence. With a considerable number of impressionable young men searching for guidance, it’s become r...

Earlier this week I received an email with a question that looked pretty simple, but the more I thought about it, the more interested I became. The person explained that on their spiritual path, they were told by someone that fear is just an illusion, and love was the only emotion that was real. My ...

Yes, you read the title correctly, but before you start throwing Koopa Shells or ACME anvils at me, let me explain. I’ve dabbled with some of the other great Metroidvanias of our time, but as much as I loved the idea of sinking my time into these types of games, they just never gr...

A postcard image, a selfie that would receive a thousand likes. A scene out of a movie — the end, of course, of a romantic drama, or a romcom, maybe starring Meg Ryan. But not Megan Fox, and I don’t know why. It’s a story of two people who were not born into magic &m...

Sitting in a dim-lit, forgotten corner of a San Francisco bar that’s seen better days than the politicians it outlived, I swirled a glass of bourbon, its amber liquid catching the light like the false glint of political promises. It’s the kind of night that whispers secrets, and my glass...

First, a little economic philosophy. Stocks have value only because they represent ownership in the underlying business. The business only has value if it is generating or ultimately will generate free cash flow. This simply means that your ownership of said stock is a call option on cash generated ...

The rational investor cares about one thing; total investment returns. Total returns for stock market investors = capital gains + dividends — investment fees & taxes All that matters is, what is my account balance? If you have a $100,000 portfolio, the $100,000 is all we should care ...

As I watched the debt ceiling debacle unfold it struck home. The parties are complicit with each other, either for fundraising and/or to keep the status quo. We need more than two parties — and that means real parties, not ones that split the vote that everyone shy’s away from....

When told about the ancient Indian concept of Maya, which holds that the world is an illusion, most people both East and West shrug off the notion. If they ponder Maya at all, they relegate it to metaphysics, which is just as easy to disregard. But a century after the quantum revolution in physics, ...

Generally, in the neuro/cognitive scientific paradigm, what is emphasized and told is that our brain/mind processes and represents reality differently than it actually exists in the physical world. This has prompted many authors to say that what our brain perceives and interprets...

At this point, the question is: how much do we know about body image and its negative impacts on the younger generation, as well as their authenticity crisis? Body image is a comprehensive psychological experience that includes one’s impression of one’s physical appearance, the thoughts ...