Book 9: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics I was a teaching assistant for an introductory management information systems course from 2015-2016. We don’t discuss physics often in this course, as you can imagine. In my office hours, a student once asked something like, “how do electrons flow through devices to deliver information to the user?” […]
Month: February 2017
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
A few years ago, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, set out to inspire both men and women with her “sort of a feminist manifesto,” Lean In. I can attest that she has done exactly that. Through a mix of humorous anecdotes and informative, compelling empirical evidence, Sandberg demonstrates how society does not encourage women […]
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five is an absurdist classic and is considered to be a great anti-war novel. It follows Billy Pilgrim, an American prisoner of war during the Second World War who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. He is able to travel through time after being abducted by aliens (Tralfamadorians). There is no concrete setting; the reader ricochets through […]
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
What are you: Human or economist (Econ)? Are you rational or irrational? Despite the sacred tenement of economics and, indeed, much of social science, humans are irrational creatures. Not too long ago, trying to understand economics through a psychological lens was a crazy idea. Now, it seems more pragmatic than ever. Richard Thaler, the author […]