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Last Saturday, I failed to publish a blog post. I didn’t actually realise that this had happened until Monday. For a moment I felt bad about this failure, it’s not like I have been totally organised with the blog up until this point, but entirely skipping it was definitely not a win. On the other… Continue reading Sorry, but not really

I am going to keep flipping a coin until I get a heads, for every tails I get in a row before that first heads, I will double the amount of money I will give you. So if it lands on heads first, you get $1. One tails and then a heads, you get $2.… Continue reading The bet you should never make

When you open up your email, and you have 24 unread emails from Amazon from the past week describing the shipping and delivery dates of your purchases, it makes you think that perhaps online shopping is a little too easy. So today I’m going to go through everything I bought on Amazon in the last… Continue reading Buying too much stuff on Amazon

Its a little sad to me that the ideas of calculus are only understood by those who make it all the way through long division, quadratic equations and trigonometry on their way to the final year of high school. There, they are taught a subject so simple that it could by understood by an 11… Continue reading Calculus before Algebra (Part 1)

My path into VR I bought my first VR headset about three years ago. I had recently got a Samsung Galaxy S7 and knew it was compatible with the Gear VR headset, so I got the headset and controller for $100. It blew my mind. Most of the people I have seen try VR for… Continue reading The right way to introduce people to VR

This is going to be one of those blog posts that is written just because I have to every Saturday. For the first couple of weeks of the blog (I believe this is the 6th post) I actually thought about what I was going to write in advance, and spent a bit of time making… Continue reading Habits are difficult: why this post is bad

The Situation Today I’m announcing a new project. While I have been driving automatic cars for years but I have never driven a manual. One of my new housemates has moved in and brought his G920 Logitech steering wheel. A year ago I bought an Oculus Quest, and have been itching to try a driving… Continue reading Learning to Drive in VR

The 4% Rule One of my favourite facts about money is known as the 4% rule. The idea is that if you only need to withdraw 4% of the value of your portfolio every year, that money should last forever (because the returns on the rest of the money will on average more than make… Continue reading An Optimistic Financial Plan

There is an interesting fact that bubbles to the surface when you examine all manner of phenomena. As 3D objects get larger their surface area grows more slowly than their volume. This first affected my life when I was trying to eat some of Old El Paso’s new Fiery Soft Tacos (they were not that… Continue reading Why big tacos are better and elephants can’t walk on water

A Blog? In 2021? Yes, I’m starting a proper weekly blog, I’m psyched. I’ve wanted to put more writing on the internet for a while. I’m generally a fairly private person, the only place you can currently find out much about me on the internet is my LinkedIn profile. I also tweet very occasionally (@AndrewWhistle)… Continue reading The One About The Resolutions