Hedge Fund vs Private Equity vs Venture Capital: Pay and Paths When Notes Fly A detailed comparison of hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital as career paths, three investment-management businesses that invest in different assets on different time horizons with diffe… EBEmir Baycan
Goal-Setting Theory: Effective Strategies for Success When Notes Fly An explainer of goal-setting theory, Edwin Locke and Gary Latham's finding that specific, challenging goals produce better performance than vague "do your best" ones, opening with Locke's 1968 paper… EBEmir Baycan
What Is the Gender Pay Gap: What the Data Actually Shows When Notes Fly An evidence-based explainer of the gender pay gap, distinguishing the raw gap (US women working full-time earned about 83 cents per male dollar in 2024 per the Census Bureau) from the adjusted gap th… EBEmir Baycan
Key Findings from the Future of Jobs Report When Notes Fly An explainer of the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report and the skills gap it documents, clarifying it is a structured synthesis of employer expectations rather than a fixed prediction. It c… EBEmir Baycan
Forest App vs Focus Keeper vs Be Focused: Timer Comparisons When Notes Fly A comparison of three Pomodoro-style productivity timer apps, Forest (gamified, social, tied to planting real trees), Focus Keeper (minimalist and data-rich), and Be Focused (flexible and task-tied),… EBEmir Baycan
First Principles Thinking Explained When Notes Fly First principles thinking means breaking problems to fundamental truths, then building solutions from scratch. EBEmir Baycan
The Feynman Technique: Master Learning by Teaching When Notes Fly An explainer of the Feynman Technique, a rigorous test of understanding that exposes the gap between familiarity and genuine knowledge, named for the physicist who insisted he only understood somethi… EBEmir Baycan
Understanding Exponential Growth and Our Limitations When Notes Fly Exponential growth means a quantity increases by a constant percentage each period, so the amount added accelerates as the base grows, which makes it feel slow at first and then overwhelming. This pa… EBEmir Baycan
Evolution of Cognitive Psychology When Notes Fly A history of the cognitive revolution that overthrew behaviorism, explaining why psychology spent three mid-century decades refusing to study the mind (the failure of introspectionism, Watson's manif… EBEmir Baycan
Ethical Failures in Organizations Explained When Notes Fly An analysis of ethical failures in organizations, using major cases to show how good companies drift into wrongdoing: Enron's off-balance-sheet accounting fraud (opening with Sherron Watkins's warnin… EBEmir Baycan