“The greatest tragedy of man is that we forget what we’ve already learned.” — Ray Dalio Please don’t judge me with my book choices. I own Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio. I also watched the animated version on YouTube. Both are impressive and exhausting. They look like enlightenment packaged
Tag: history
The Path Not Taken If I’m being honest, I wanted to major in History.Not Computer Science. Not IT. Not anything involving servers, protocols, or subnet masks. I was fascinated by stories — how societies rose and fell, how ideas outlived their authors, how the smallest decisions rippled across centuries. History, to me, was the ultimate network: human connections spanning generations,
Every nation has flaws, but not every nation repeats them with the stubbornness of a drunk who swears he’s sober. We Filipinos have perfected the art of messing things up, proudly, consistently, and sometimes cheerfully. From politics to culture to economics, we manage to sabotage ourselves with a creativity that could have made us great if only it were directed