Category: labour market
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The survival problems of homo economicus
All humans today are homo sapiens, the wise man – I know, unbelievable. Archaeology tells us that there have been multiple human species in the last two million plus years. Our last cohabitating cousin was homo neanderthalensis – a couple of tens of thousands years back. This is not that long ago in archaeological terms.…
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The Venn diagram of life
We live in a competitive society. Young people are told about the importance of education and hard work, and how this will enable them to have the career, or even the life they want to have. Such advice is arguably quite vague and certainly does not capture all which is important. I grappled – and…
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Hello World!
“Hello World!” is the title of the sample blog post I got when installing WordPress to the ponderer.io domain. The name of this template is chosen aptly as “Hello World!” also is the name of the program which you almost surely will learn to write when starting a programming language (C, C++, Python, R, etc.).…