Essays

• Find a Lover Like Manuelita

• Letter to a Friend: Why Write Online

• You Already Know What To Do

• What I Learned from Auditioning for an A Cappella Group

• The Nuclear Theory of Love

• All fears are gifts. All gifts are fears.

• The Endless Reminiscence of Your College Days

• Curiosity is Love

• The Cheesy Energy of Lithium

• Transmitters and Receivers

• Private Pleasures, Public Pressures

• Holding On to the Unsteadiness of Human Nature

• The Healing Code of Joan

• The Curious Dilemma: Balancing Ambition and Humility in the Pursuit of Progress

• The Flexible Disciplinarian: How to Achieve Your Goals by Balancing Rigidity and Self-Deception

• The General Theory of Curiosity

• The Steppenwolf's Guide to Laughing at Life's Distortions

• Curious & Obsessive Experimentation: Updating 2022

• Venezuelan Migrant Crisis in the United States

• Specialize But Only in Your Curiosity

• Say’s Law for Your Curiosity

• Engelbartism

• I will be 69 years old in 2072

• FREEGEORGE: The Call For Automation

• Teaching Yourself Math Online

• What's My Major?

• How To Think for Yourself in College

• How to Build a New Country

• Belonging in the 21st Century: The Quest for Self-Esteem

• How to See and Follow What You Want

• Patience & Faith: Updating 2021

• How to College: Advice, Mistakes, and Thoughts

• Ask Innocent Questions To Convince Anyone?

• The Act of Loyalty to Every Creator

• Writing to Rewire Your Brain

• Calculus: Reaching the Unreachable

• So You Want to Learn CAD?

• The bookbear express: The Unseen Face of Ava

• Let Startup Cities Create Themselves

• America Needs a New Motto

• Don’t Network. Make Friends.

• To Fully Live, Think For Yourself

• The Las Vegas Deadly Sin

• Deciphering Fully Living (aka The Meaning of Life)

• Giving Up Optionality: Updating 2020

• The Elon Musk Vs. Gary Vee Approach

• Most Curious Curiosities I Learned in 2020

• Optimists Prevail: My Grandfather’s Story

• Do Things that Have Greater Outputs than Your Inputs

• Winning Without Competing

• Who (and Who Not) to Get Advice From?

• 18 Lessons of My First 18 Years

• Don’t Find Mentors. Find Your Future Self.

• Eat The World Vs. Eaten by The World

• Market Research is Bananas

• “I Guess That’s What You Do When You’re in College.”

• Giving Up a Normal Childhood

• The Hidden 30-Year-Old Rules Before Reading or Studying

• The College Manifesto: Becoming a Successful Student

• Ice, Railroad, and English: Stubbornness Revised

• Am I Going to College? Yes. Should You Go to College? Maybe Not.

• Frequency + Common Goal + Vulnerability = Great Friends

• Eric Weinstein: The Mathematician turned Physicist & Economist

• Happy & Ambitious? How to be Both?

• The Era Of Unlimited Everything: Unlimited Materials & Unlimited Money

• Curiosity Killed The Cat? Curiosities Will Make You Alive

• This Question Will Fail You

• Drive & Death: A Story on Intentionality

• Real Growth & Fake Growth: Technology, Science, and Long-term Focus

• The Case for Peaceful Protests: Why They Are The Most Effective

• What Is It Like Being a Crazy Motivated High School Kid?

• The 21st Century da Vinci Will Be a Billionaire Who Isn’t a Genius

• My Exploration of the Mystery of Language

• My Generation Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity: Leverage

• Why Optimism Isn’t About Positivity

• Identical Thinking in a Globalized World

• How To Invest Using No Money If You’re Under 18

• Successful People’s Habits are like a Mini Claw Machine

• Confidence is a Game. Here's how the 14-year-old version of me played it

• What Can Airlines Do To Maximize Profits? A Thought Exercise

• Eric Yuan: The Story of the Zoom Founder

• You’re Blind and You Have No Idea. This is How Statistics & Probabilities Can Help You See

• Carlo Rovelli: The Poetic Physicist

• Statistical Thinking: A Better Way To Understand Reality