Welcome to Intellectual Rabbit Hole!

We created this site to bring together people that like to learn. This is not a high-brow academic site—our goal is to keep things simple and fun. We hope you find the content interesting and, at times, applicable to your daily life.

To that end, our only rule is: we don’t talk about politics. We want to foster positive collaboration in the community with a focus on what we can do to make life better.

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So, if you like to learn, here are some of our favorite things to get you started. Have a good journey!

Life

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. By William B. Irvine.

Stoicism is in vogue nowadays, but there seem to be misconceptions swirling around about the philosophy. Stoicism is not about apathy, Mr. Irvine argues, but creating joy. This book is a helpful manual for dealing with the challenges of life and forms the core of the philosophy we discuss on the site.

Math / Tech

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals. By Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic.

Like writing, there is a temptation to make things overly complicated when presenting data. Ms. Nussbaumer Knaflic gives a treasure trove of practical advice to improving your graphs that she devised while at Google. It’s a great book to have handy at the office. I find her lecture (below) on the topic, where you can see her principles in action, even better than the book.