In the spring semester, I took Aristotle (PHIL 1120) by Professor Gill (Very cool class, highly recommended for philosophy concentrators)! For my midterm paper, I compared Aristotle’s active intellect in De Anima iii 5 to consciousness. …

The underlying principle behind the modern economic theory lies in scarcity — some call economics the science of scarcity. Scarcity states that the resources we value, such as time, money, labor, tools, and capital, exist in limited supply. In other words, our ends are endless, but the means to fulfill…

There are two variations of investment styles — top-down and bottom-up. In this essay, I argue that investing from the first principles is one of the most (if not the most) important things to do as an investor at any stage. To support this claim, I will first discuss the…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb made a tweet comparing the NFTs (non-fungible tokens) to rigid designators, a concept introduced in Saul Kripke’s nominal work Naming and Necessity. In this article, I will explain what rigid designators are and what that might mean for the NFTs. A rigid designator is when it “designates…

I have spent lots of time and energy during the first half of this semester on mental and physical health. In this article, I will share some of what I have learned so far in this journey. These are the two things I have been thinking deeply about since January…

I recently lost someone who was important to me. However, I am grateful, because I learned major lessons, systematic methods, and insights on overcoming and growing from hardships. I will divide this piece into two parts. In this essay, I will share (i)-(iii): (i) How to deal with your emotions …

In the fall semester at Brown, I took Epistemology (PHIL 1705)! It was challenging but pushed me to assess how we know what we know. For my term paper, I explored process reliabilism and epistemic circular arguments. I wanted to share this, because as much as I have suffered in…

Kant claims that humans should be treated as an end, not means. In the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant makes a deontological argument that the good will is the only unqualifiedly good virtue. Adopting Kantian moral theory, many think that business practices are usually unethical, since in most…