With the latest Turkish twitter ban, Turks are questioning whether Erdogan fears tweets leaking sex tapes from AK party officials, his own dirty secrets, or is just using this as a distraction from his other political fails.

Erdogan’s Twitter ban seems like a modern-day book burning to the world, but this isn’t Turkey’s first time blocking social media. While the censorship of Twitter shows blatant disregard for democracy and freedom of speech, the Turkish government has never been able to stop its people when they are most determined. Whether Turks are completely disregarding the few traffic laws that Turkey does have, or avoiding taxation with black market cash transactions, Turks are naturals at finding ways around laws and red tape.

Internet Censorship: Not a New Game for Turkey
Turkey’s not the only country to censor the Internet, but this isn’t their first go with censorship...

Stop pretending to be Superman or your kryptonite will kill you. By lying to ourselves by believing we can do everything, we are setting ourselves up for failure. Do yourself a favor and stop screwing yourself over.

We all think we can do everything. We lie to ourselves thinking we have more time than we do. We believe we can multitask and overbook. But we are wrong. By doing so, we are left with dozens of projects half-assed, half-done feeling burnt out.

Hong Kong: the Asian version of a New York minute on speed

In my early 20’s I lived in Hong Kong and worked in project management. I accepted my job just after ending a long relationship to a Hong Konger I met in college. At the time the only people I knew there were three loose acquaintances from California and Turkey.

To compensate for my lack of network and social support in this new country, I made a great effort to go out of...

If you are thinking about investing in Bitcoin you might as well flush your money down the toilet by investing in the Egyptian pound.

Even the smartest people are susceptible to the shortcomings of confirmation bias. We search for the data and metrics that support our claims, giving us the answers we want to see.

It was easy enough for engineers and the Silicon Valley tech crowd to believe in Bitcoin, a new kind of self-regulating currency based in the beauty of mathematics. Avoiding the pitfalls of politics, bureaucracy and monetary centralization sounds like a good plan on paper, but the efficient market hypothesis (that free markets will regulate themselves) doesn’t always work in practice. Unexpected ripple effects of the absence of regulation are even messier when financially engineered assets like Bitcoin are involved.

The Fragility of Artificial Assets

No matter how...