Majicman Notes

“The way you speak to yourself, the way you walk, the way you carry your shoulders matters.” I got a fabulous opportunity to interview one of Spain’s most famous bullfighters, Martín Vázquez. I wanted to… Read more

The artist as entrepreneur Artists and entrepreneurs are blessed with similar convictions. Both are innovators. They see possibilities where others see limitations, bringing the previously unimagined into being. Both have skin in the game, living… Read more

I began to discover the rewards granted any serious reporter: that when you acknowledge how little you know, looking in at a world from the outside brings a special clarity. “In truly effective thinking”, Walter… Read more

“By far the biggest medical surprise of the past decade has been the extraordinary number of studies showing that the single biggest predictor of your psychological and physical health and wellbeing is simply the number… Read more

We cannot be complacent. Prohibiting obnoxious content on social media is censorship. Gathering biometric data is surveillance. Locking up potential offenders before they commit any crime is repression. Wounding demonstrators is state-sponsored violence, and imposing… Read more

What’s the answer for lasting happiness? Progress If you aren’t growing, you are dying.  It turns out that happiness that is true and lasting is quite simply this: progress. Progress=Happiness! If you are growing and giving,… Read more

One of the things we’re looking at is whether consumers usually make the best decision, but it’s never been empirically tested using a large consumer dataset such as this one,” said co-author Dr Ferninand Rauch… Read more

Black Swans being unpredictable, we need to adjust to their existence (rather than naïvely try to predict them). There are so many things we can do if we focus on antiknowledge, or what we do… Read more

Fate is arbitrary and beyond our control. No one ever gets everything she wants. These are hardly revelations, and one would have to live under an incredible umbrella of luck and privilege to stay away… Read more

Education has made all the difference for me. Mathematics taught me to reason logically and to understand numbers, tables, charts, and calculations as second nature. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, and biology revealed wonders of the world,… Read more