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Small. Boutique. High-level. Responsive and hands on. Tech savvy and forward thinking… these are qualities the Goliaths are trying desperately to convey in their rebrands and new marketing starting decades ago with marketing campaigns like Charles Schwab’s “talk to Chuck”. But however effective such advertising might be at hooking in new clients, it can’t deliver these types of values compared to a real David. The overhead alone makes it impossible. You couldn’t have done this 10 years ago. The market, the

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The three faces of overconfidence – Moore – 2017 – Social and Personality Psychology Compass – Wiley Online Library

Link from marginal revolutions blog

Overconfidence has been studied in 3 distinct ways.
Overestimation is thinking that you are better than you are.
Overplacement is the exaggerated belief that you are better than others.
Overprecision is the excessive faith that you know the truth.
These 3 forms of overconfidence manifest themselves under different conditions, have different causes, and have widely varying consequences. It is a mistake to treat them as if they were the same or to assume that they have the same psychological origins.

Source: The three faces of overconfidence – Moore – 2017 – Social and Personality Psychology Compass – Wiley Online Library

Musings 2018 05 25 : Small Joys

When my mind is not occupied and I see a GSIS UMID Kiosk I can’t help but feel happy.
That project was blood, sweat, and tears.
If a poet or a writer loves it when someone reads their work, as a programmer to see our team’s creation, the system I architected being used actively.

4 More Years or Til I Die?

Will this only be four more years or will I die knowing only this?
Two years ago it was an upward trajectory now we’re wiley cayote free falling with a acme.
The stage is set for an unholy trial.
A bigger and bigger mockery of democracy is all I can see.
This is text book rise of a fascist state with no escape just a slow motion replay of Italy and Germany.
If they succeed can I still escape when ally life is built on this islands in the far east.
Shall I escape and be from nowhere a wandering Pinoy without a nation.
Shall I stay and drink myself to death with all the distractions of the www.
Such a sad state from a man who is always satisfied except when he is not except when it’s not.

Musings 2018 05 22

I have this anxiety this fear that I am more olivar than lacaba.
That when the brave are called to serve I will prove to be a coward.
Haven’t slept since those policemen wearing ski masks brandishing long firearms passed me. Have been up for more 40 hours. Such dark thoughts engulf me.
I am so weak.

Cobra Kai musings

Wow feels.
The revival is almost pitch perfect.
It’s the original karate kid plus a ton of John Hughes sans millennials.
Eagerly awaiting season 2.