How to Improve Your Body Language Reading

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If you could read body language well, then you are immediately learning how people are reacting to what you're saying or doing. That actually gives you more information that you can then learn even better how to socially interact. Whereas in the opposite scenario, where you're not good at reading body language, you might make a joke or say something or do something and the person who reacts negatively doesn't pick up on it. So you're kind of stuck in a rut. Yeah. It's sort of like this is a virtuous cycle.

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What is risk-driven development? How should we weigh advice, best practices, and common sense in a domain? What makes some feedback loops better than others? What's the best way to take System 2 knowledge and convert it to System 1 intuition? What are forward-chaining and backward-chaining? When is it best to use one over the other? What are the advantages and disadvantages of centralization and decentralization?

Satvik Beri is a cofounder and head of Data Science at Temple Capital, a quantitative hedge fund specializing in cryptocurrency. He is a big believer in the theory of constraints, and he has a background helping companies find and eliminate major development bottlenecks. Some of his interests include machine learning, functional programming, and mentorship. You can reach him at satvik.beri@gmail.com.

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