Davood Gozli – Page 5 – Writer, YouTuber, & Reading Group Host

In “Where the Money Is: Value Investing in the Digital Age,” Adam Seessel draws on his early career as an award-winning journalist to bring his engaging style of writing to the world of capital markets. Intended for a wide audience beyond professional investors and analysts, Seessel focuses on value investing and how it differs from other investment styles, such as growth investing and short-term trading. He traces the history of value investing, highlighting key figures…

Career Transition interview UX Research

User-Experience (UX) Research Interviews

By Davood Gozli | 14/01/202324/01/2023 by Davood Gozli

The following seven interviews were conducted during the October and November of 2022. The interviewees represent a diverse group of paths into, and fields within, User-Experience Research. Therefore, the interviews serve as a good, general introduction to the field for those interested in learning about it. More interviews are available on my YouTube channel.

General Psychology Phenomenology

Kundera & the Poetic Imagination

By Davood Gozli | 08/12/202229/05/2023 by Davood Gozli

Milan Kundera’s novel, Life is Elsewhere, contains both a celebration and a critique of poetry (aren’t the best critiques rooted in love?). The main characteristic of poetry, which is the target of his critique, is the force of poetic imagination toward finality. The poet, like a god, doesn’t simply consider a possibility; she creates and proclaims! “Look at what I have created!” What is created presents itself as always having been there, as a fate,…

Writing

Ezzat Goushegir (on Writing)

By Davood Gozli | 07/11/2022 by Davood Gozli

“My heart never feels as connected to life as when I am writing. In writing, I find my freedom, a freedom that is absolute, a freedom I have never found in any other activity. In writing, I find myself and begin to know others. It is in writing that I think of causes and effects, and I search for answers to my questions. And, sometimes, I don’t even search, because sometimes it doesn’t matter, and…

Criticism Culture Philosophy

The Burnout Society (Byung-Chul Han)

By Davood Gozli | 16/09/202229/05/2023 by Davood Gozli

I think it was sometime during the summer of 2018 that my friend Peter Limberg gave me a copy of the Agony of Eros. That was my introduction to Byung-Chul Han. Han is an aphoristic philosopher, carrying the influence of Nietzsche quite visibly. He engages with cultural and social topics in a way that is timely, counter-intuitive, counter-comfort, and counter-status quo. I’ve been considering a systematic–and somewhat exhaustive–review of his works published in English. This…

Review of “Where the Money Is: Value Investing in the Digital Age” by Adam Seessel

User-Experience (UX) Research Interviews

Kundera & the Poetic Imagination

Ezzat Goushegir (on Writing)

The Burnout Society (Byung-Chul Han)