Quora Answers — 2014
1,699 answers written on Quora between 2010 and 2014, during the peak of the Ribbonfarm era. Questions from others; answers entirely by Venkat. 3 substantive answers are indexed here. For a specific answer, use Search or ask vgr_zirp.
- What is the reason I am unable to finish what I start?
I wrote about this recently. Short answer: finish more to finish more. It's a habit based on using reinforcement/conditioning to train your brain to the payoff schedule of a project lifecycle, which …
- What are the best research groups investigating complex systems and complex networks?
Besides Santa Fe, there are excellent complexity programs at U. Michigan and Cornell, and something called the New England Complexity Research Institute. http://necsi.edu But really, it is less of a…
- Is it right to assume that minority cultures want to be protected?
Modernity usually splits any marginal culture into cultural conservatives who want to remain insular and modernists who want to assimilate into the modern mainstream. This recent example of the Bonda …