Showing posts with label Daily Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daily Life. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2009

Myers-Briggs Tests Actually Work!

I've been feeling awfully Socratic lately - it's a phase I go through every so often, where I have learned a lot in a short period of time and become somewhat forlorn over the fact that I seem to know less than when I started.

It seems the older I get, the less sure I am about what I want to do when I grow up. This is the opposite of the way it is supposed to work. I was expressing this frustration to a friend, who asked what my M-B personality type was. I guessed it was ENTJ (didn't really remember but that seemed right) and I'll be damned if the first page turned up in a Google search isn't my biography.

University professor is still a possibility, but it looks like I am destined for the corporate wasteland.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Twitter

I am now on Twitter. I'm not sure why and I'm not sure if it will be interesting, but if anyone has suggestions of people to follow I think that's the only way to make it a worthy investment of my time! Let me know who you follow. 

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Sunk Costs are Sunk

Last night, while watching TV in the basement, I wanted a little midnight snack. I ventured up into the kitchen to grab some cereal - chose Reese's Puffs and brought the box, a bowl and spoon, and milk downstairs. Perhaps this was a premonition: at the bottom of the stairs I stopped and realized I would've prefered Frosted Flakes. I decided against another trip upstairs and ended up stuck with the Puffs, which were stale (hence I believe it was a premonition).

"Sunk costs are sunk" - is this idiom practiced or only preached? Was my case the opportunity cost of walking up the stairs too great (seeing as I already had a substitute) or was I making my decision based on sunk costs?

Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant. ~Fredrich Hayek in The Constitution of Liberty