by abdelazizalgh | Sep 25, 2022 | Ideas, Musings, Philosophy
I had finally completed my workout for the day and traversed my regular route, heading towards the elevator, down to the ground floor, then out the front doors. It was the moment I headed to the elevator and clicked the bottom arrow that a musing I had maintained...
by abdelazizalgh | Oct 14, 2021 | Engineering, Ideas, Musings, Philosophy
Introduction The idea for this article, my musing, erupted from two very different sources of inspiration; the first being from the intellectual autobiography by Colin McGinn, ‘The Making of a Philosopher’; while the second is from the fact that I am about to begin...
by abdelazizalgh | Jul 29, 2020 | Philosophy, Quantitative Finance
What is the opposite of fragile? Robust? Wrong! It’s natural. Most people would often say robust — something that is not fragile, something that does not break. Whilst this common answer may seem correct at first, one can view fragility in a totally different...
by abdelazizalgh | Jun 8, 2020 | Philosophy, Writings
Disclaimer: You’re in a world where physics still doesn’t exist. You’re sitting on a bench sipping coffee with a friend of yours. You’re facing a slightly busy road littered with kiosks of roughly the same dimensions, spaced evenly away from each other. People are...
