Things aren't always what they appear to be

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All of this turned out to be fairly relevant to my life, especially in the past couple of months.

A paper by Adam and Ehud Kalai on Strategic Polarization.
// TODO(mpal): Yes I know, there are many more Kalai-Kalai papers for me to read..

This PhD Comics.


The Hunt for Red October (just started watching, not sure when I can finish. No spoilers please)

I wish there was a simple tagline to summarize all of the above. The best I can come up with is, "things aren't always what they appear to be".

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