Carlos Rodrigo Turner

What matters most is whether one is extending one’s life or merely delaying one’s death. – Seneca

• Books

  • Reading list
  • Zero to one by Peter Thiel
  • My Early Life: The Autobiography by Winston Churchill
  • Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
  • Energy: A Beginner’s Guide by Vaclav Smil
  • Familiar quotations by John Bartlett
  • Big Data Now: 2012 Edition
  • Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
  • Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
  • On the Shortness of Life by Seneca the Younger
  • Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
  • The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
  • American boys’ life of Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
  • Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin

• Design

  • DRY
  • Wabi sabi

• Economy

  • How to get paid when you invest in an asset
  • Valor y precio

• Engineering

  • Attebytes
  • VTOL
  • The backup rule of three

• History

  • Ides of March
  • Famous people in History
  • Conflicts

• How-to

  • Como escribir una buena entrada de blog
  • Como grabar un podcast

• Inspiration

  • Death in Teheran
  • Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
  • A Pale Blue Dot
  • Allow
  • 13 Virtues of Benjamin Franklin
  • The Summer Day
  • The Parable of the Fisherman
  • Serenity Prayer
  • Shortness of Life
  • The blind and the elephant
  • Living in the present
  • Nassim Taleb on being black swans
  • Unnaturality of Anger
  • St. Crispin’s day Speech
  • The man in the arena
  • The lucky ones
  • The tale of two wolves
  • Purpose of life
  • To make much of time

• Intelligence

  • Attebytes
  • What Is Intelligence, Anyway?

• Internet

  • Douglas Adams’ Rules of Technology
  • Someone else’s computer
  • Tboti – The best of the internet
  • The story of Ubuntu
  • Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal

• Knowledge

  • Things to Know
  • Memex

• Law

  • Onus probandi
  • Brocards

• Mathematics

  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • The Brier score

• Mental models

  • The Map Is Not the Territory
  • The Red Queen Effect
  • The Third Story
  • Tragedy of the Commons
  • Trojan Horse
  • Two-sided Market
  • Typical mind fallacy
  • Unforced Error
  • Unintended Consequences
  • Unknown Unknowns
  • Utility (Marginal, Diminishing, Increasing)
  • Veil of Ignorance
  • Via Negativa – Omission/Removal/Avoidance of Harm
  • Utilitarianism
  • Winner Take All Market
  • Winning a Battle but Losing the War
  • Winning Hearts and Minds
  • Wisdom of the crowd
  • Zero Tolerance
  • Win-win
  • Zero-sum vs Non-zero-sum
  • Agnosticism
  • Ad Hominem
  • Activation Energy
  • The 10 commandments of logic
  • Vincible and invincible ignorance
  • Polanyi’s paradox
  • Meno’s Paradox
  • Mental Models

• Nature

  • Earth’s critical zone
  • CO2 Footprint
  • How much is a tree worth?

• Personal

  • Reading list
  • Christmas
  • CV
  • Places
  • Newsletters
  • Online tools
  • Restaurants
  • Podcasts
  • Documentaries
  • Films
  • Series
  • My life in months
  • Principles and Beliefs
  • Blogs
  • Browser extensions

• Productivity

  • The Regret Minimization Framework
  • OKR

• Psychology

  • Civil inattention

• Quotes

  • Extending life
  • Work
  • Reality
  • Trust
  • Prevention
  • No regrets
  • Mind and body
  • Human intelligence
  • Evenly distributed
  • Education
  • Cradle
  • Outnumbered
  • Terrible things
  • The hour for lunch
  • Fear of death
  • Simplicities
  • Peaceful
  • Reality
  • Anonymous
  • Backwards
  • Purpose
  • Change
  • Someone else’s computer
  • Breed of monkeys
  • Happiness is work
  • A riddle
  • Optimizing
  • Relax
  • Mungerism
  • Today’s peace
  • Seneca on religion
  • Good timber
  • Ecological limits
  • Remember Sweetness
  • Attitude
  • A simple fact
  • Consent
  • Outcome vs Opportunity
  • No code
  • Opinión
  • Horses and Zebras
  • Don’t lie to yourself
  • A ride
  • No simpler
  • Some books
  • Focus
  • Work, love, dance
  • Anger
  • Urgent and important
  • Imagine anything
  • Organic system
  • Work hard
  • The world we choose
  • Anger
  • Plenty of time
  • Youth
  • Do we need to work?
  • Choose life
  • Sinking ship
  • hidden
  • Intelligence is change
  • Moderation
  • Never give in
  • Productividad
  • Lo único que tiene valor
  • Evenly distributed
  • Other’s experience
  • Vast oceans of truth
  • Fracaso
  • Inventar el futuro
  • Compartir
  • Valor y precio
  • We are not nouns
  • Tomorrow’s papers

• Religion

  • Agnosticism
  • Vincible and invincible ignorance
  • Russell’s teapot
  • Epicurean paradox

• Web development

  • Web development
  • XML