What’s up with this universal income thing? To me, Universal Basic Income represents giving up. It is a statement about the rich being so rich and owning so much of everything that they are basically creating an imaginary economy with the sole purpose of preserving their status. Universal basic income is a way for the… Continue reading Universal Basic Illusion
Incompetence
Let’s blame the people. They’re at fault. You darn mask not wearing humans! Let’s blame humanity. Let’s hide our faces and failures by telling people they’re doing it wrong. At the same time let’s never focus, never get our shit together, never prune, never burn the weeds. Let’s allow the same old branches suck the… Continue reading Incompetence
Things which don’t belong together
Our so touted “World Peace” owes to corruption far more than it does to capitalist globalized commerce. It is one of the optimists’ worst founded ideas. The truth is mankind’s deepest superstition. There is no objective truth, other than mathematical truth. Everything else being subjective is, eventually not true. The large majority of people never… Continue reading Things which don’t belong together
What a wonderful world
I see trees of green, Legit I see them too, nice trees Red roses too, Yes, I have a few in my garden I see them bloom, I rarely get to see them bloom because I am so busy all the time. For me and you, Oooh. For me? I dont think they bloom for… Continue reading What a wonderful world
The increasing inequality in power
It seems to me that us poor and average people are missing on a very important aspect of social divides. The power in wealth is multiplied by the society’s technological prowess. What do I mean by this? Here are three examples: that robotic dog and the human shaped robots we build today are the police… Continue reading The increasing inequality in power
The business solar system
Money or profit is the sun. Mercury is sales. The closest to it, taking all the heat. The ones on the sun side are cold calling, direct sales. On the backside, in the hot dark, commercial contracts, deals, and new business. Venus is marketing. Looking cool on the outside but a literal hell on the… Continue reading The business solar system
Good User Interface – FICUS system
FICUS stands for fast, interactive, consistent, usable and simple. Really, this is a contraption meant to be memorable. Fast interfaces that make users wait are breaking flows. They should strive to be real world fast – remember when you tun a facet on and the water takes a while to run? Frustration. Interactive all action… Continue reading Good User Interface – FICUS system
The Gentile-men of Guy Ritchie
I went to see the latest Guy Ritchie movie, The gentlemen, a movie about a white drug dealer, with a white no. 2, who tries to sell his, good intentions only, drug business of growing, harvesting, packaging, selling and distributing pot, a business with dozens of locations spread throughout the UK on the estates of bankrupt… Continue reading The Gentile-men of Guy Ritchie
How open-source manages to be a capitalist win-win
Imagine a big tree. A big tree with … cherries, because apples are overused. So a cherry tree with a seesaw under its treetop. On this seesaw, two kids are playing so that aside from having fun from the ups and downs, they can also pick and eat some of the cherries. They do so… Continue reading How open-source manages to be a capitalist win-win
WordPress themes – still a good business
As we speak the new editor is taking WordPress to the next stage of its existence and because of this there are countless “battles” ahead. To take something to a new stage is hard. It is hard because we all venture into an unknown where new things change the old, and sometimes the old is… Continue reading WordPress themes – still a good business
Viața la țară
Primarul e supărat pe noi și nu ne asfaltează strada. Așa a zis viceprimarul, ca e supărat pe noi ca nu l-am votat și că am făcut “gură” când era el în campanie. Așa am auzit că a zis viceprimarul. Adică așa mi-a zis cel care a vorbit cu cel care era în hol și… Continue reading Viața la țară
Gutenberg, more than an editor, the future of web editing
Did you or a friend ever start to move furniture around the house? For any reason. Like making more “space”, or adding order to chaos? Or removing clutter, unearthing things to throw away? Did you, or a friend, got at the end of exhausting days of work only to realize that you solved none of… Continue reading Gutenberg, more than an editor, the future of web editing
I want Apple to have the courage for a matte screen
Is that too much courage? Oh wait, in fact there is no such thing, it’s only cost optimisation and packaging design. I find it unacceptable to buy a ten dolla’ sticker to make useable all these “pro” devices . This is nonsense. People who use their 3k laptops for showing off and entertainment are the… Continue reading I want Apple to have the courage for a matte screen
The people who buy the Pixels are to blame for our privacy voes
An opinion. Google and Facebook live and breathe privacy sold to advertisers, governments and manipulative systems of mass deception. Old news. However, for business purposes, I wonder, how much tracking and fingerprinting is enough? Do businesses actually want to strip the consumer of any kind of cognitive effort? Then what kind of experience is that?… Continue reading The people who buy the Pixels are to blame for our privacy voes
My Apple lock down because of Google’s greed
So I have three devices from Apple currently serviced, all three bought last year. My iPhone SE’s touchID stopped working, my iPad Pro 10.5 started to feature white spots on the screen, and today my “made to order” iMac 21″ shut down all by itself and won’t power up anymore. What is this? What are… Continue reading My Apple lock down because of Google’s greed
Work division and romance
I think that if we were to choose the greatest breaker of romantic relationships is applying work division principles to chores. If you’re after the increase of efficienciencies while playing house, you will get either one of divorce, therapy or a dysfunctional family — given the exception where both parties are high functioning sociopaths. When playing house efficiencies… Continue reading Work division and romance
How can I not be myself?
… an answer of mine to this Quora question If it were possible the way to not be yourself is to be born again, but if you are born in the same family and same historical period and same social class and so on you could end up being the same person all over again. So… Continue reading How can I not be myself?
Marketing, the art of buying customers
Marketing is meant to find out what people expect or want, deliver the results to the product team, and then communicate the results of product development or innovation to the people, so that people find out that their problems have been solved and expectations met. I’m sorry that’s old news. New news is marketing is… Continue reading Marketing, the art of buying customers
I was raised in a data center
I don’t know my parents but I know them. In a perfect simulation I wouldn’t have known them at all, but they failed to simulate me not knowing them so now I know that I know them. My childhood was built on billions of recorded childhoods and by the second second I became a happy… Continue reading I was raised in a data center
What if we had an Advertising ID API in the browser?
With an Advertising ID I could be in charge of the things I want tracked about myself, an opt in participation, not only a generic yes or no, instead, a detailed approach on tracking. If I had an advertising ID that the browser allows me to manage, and which would be common across all browsers,… Continue reading What if we had an Advertising ID API in the browser?
Gratuitous Gratitude Hides Habits
Beware of habits as they turn choices into destiny. I can find no other concept more oversold than gratitude. It is like gratitude is the single most rewarding emotion that humans are able to feel. However, in my experiences so far, this is not the case. Being grateful on demand is a wisely distorted blackmail: what… Continue reading Gratuitous Gratitude Hides Habits
What is work ethic?
You can’t teach someone work ethic. You can’t. “Work ethic is a belief that hard work and diligence have a moral benefit and an inherent ability, virtue or value to strengthen character”, Wikipedia instructs. In my past 18 years of professional interaction with people, I found that work ethic is a deeply personal experience which… Continue reading What is work ethic?
Status update
Most of the people on this planet are currently upset. Some of them are also sad. There is a huge gap between what you expect and what you accomplish. Expectations are all so high because of things you neither control nor asked for. Accomplishments are so little because we’re highly rewarded for doing insignificant work.… Continue reading Status update
Is there a Tinder for friends?
An OKCupid for finding people who like you, that you like back. A place where sex is secondary, some possible distant outcome. A place where everyone has zero interest in finding a significant other, but total commitment in finding significant people. I’m thinking swipe right to mean “I’d like to hang out with you”. Facebook… Continue reading Is there a Tinder for friends?
A surprisingly simple way to make good decisions
A decision framework. To generate work is no challenge. Finding which work matters, and the right order of execution, is the real challenge. That is: deciding. It makes a lot of sense to think of a decision like a weight measuring of arguments and pick the side that is heavier or lighter. This is easy.… Continue reading A surprisingly simple way to make good decisions
Pro choice does not mean the right to not have children.
The “choice” is the right to not have your children. Important distinction. You should make it. Balls are not for money shot fluid. Wombs are not for beach body support. Both are for producing new humans. We’re raising a generation of men and women who view having children as entirely optional, and I believe this… Continue reading Pro choice does not mean the right to not have children.
You can’t make something out of nothing.
Why? Because: There isn’t anything in nothing that may become something. It is important to understand nothingness and the repercussions that its existence has on your existence. If nothingness exists, only then is existence truly absurd. Otherwise, however weak the something is, there is purpose. Purpose is merely the existence of a next step in… Continue reading You can’t make something out of nothing.
This dream that I’m dreaming is my reality
This dream that I’m dreaming is my reality. Yet, this idea, “reality”, as if there is any “fakety” to oppose it …, what do we mean by it? The real is opposed to the imaginary and reality is a summation of everything that is real, as in not imaginary. But what if I imagine something that… Continue reading This dream that I’m dreaming is my reality
New eternity in 5, 4, 3 …
There is no God willing to torture you for an eternity, because eternal torture is boring. There is no eternal happiness either. Eternal happiness requires both eternal awareness and your freezing in a particular state, but if you don’t change awareness is zero, therefore happiness is maximum right before it changes you so that you… Continue reading New eternity in 5, 4, 3 …
To be straight, don’t be gay.
The truth about the gay community is that the stage of complete acceptance into an overwhelming straight majority is very far, simply because not being gay is part of the definition of being straight. You see, people have always known, deep inside, that sexuality is fluid and that sexuality only rarely manifests externally solely based… Continue reading To be straight, don’t be gay.
And, of the year, more spleen.
The good never wins, the Roman Empire wins. The good never wins, the great horde wins. The good never wins, inquisition wins. The good never wins, the conquistadores win. The good never wins, Guantanamo wins. The good never wins, it only has small victories. I hate them. It is like a torture where you’re kept… Continue reading And, of the year, more spleen.
Manipulation works because people like to get smart for free.
People want to be smart by default. You can see it in the way a child becomes frustrated if another child understands faster whatever information. The manipulated gets information and arguments and chains of inference and deduction with no effort. They do not verify information because they have the same. human problem with giving back… Continue reading Manipulation works because people like to get smart for free.
If you will not have children
Wanting children but not having them is not sad, it is depressive, that means it makes everything look like it doesn’t matter. It is a special kind of want which fucks you up. Maybe you will. Most people do, at least currently, have children. But maybe you won’t. If you won’t, can’t or don’t have… Continue reading If you will not have children
Change your denominator.
Being a human in this day and age got limited. I feel like those kind of questions which were asked once with great reverence, are today barely referenced as conversation starters. People don’t want to go in depth anymore. What scarred me is that the shallowness is not the kind you find at careless teenagers… Continue reading Change your denominator.
Things generally suck because of product innovation
Here is a short theory. Product innovation is all the work which satisfies one of these two outcomes: A) it increases the size of the core user base B) it increases the amount of added value for the product This is it. Really. And you can see this in place at the current Behemoths of… Continue reading Things generally suck because of product innovation
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To people who don’t eat animals
You are doing it wrong The right way to not eat animals correctly is, behold: don’t eat animals Whoa, imagine that. I mean, literally, that is all you have to do. But you’re failing at it. I am tired of articles eliciting this kind of self hatred that supposedly should make people stop eating meat and animal… Continue reading To people who don’t eat animals
Actually, the world is eating software
Aren’t we lovely when we’re delusional? Er, I mean all high on hope. When you think of software eating the world you imagine: an automated heaven, filled with people being paid for leisure time a symphony of orchestrated machinery, working for some hard coded greater good hidden, but constantly communicating, systems that combine streams of data… Continue reading Actually, the world is eating software
How to quit a job you like
There are two issues to mitigate when you want to give the bird in the hand for two in the bush: the risk of failure the opportunity cost The risk of failure means that there is no way to be sure you are going to be successful at the new job. Maybe you will, but… Continue reading How to quit a job you like
Rich people love sociopaths
The best of the best never lean back, and this is wrong. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination… Continue reading Rich people love sociopaths
How to make better decisions:
Why does Warren Buffet live in the same house he bought in 1958, despite his wealth? Why did Mark Zuckerberg buy all the houses around his property? Why did Bill Gates build himself the uber- home? Why did Richard Branson buy an island? Long story, short Your environment is decisive on the decisions you make. The… Continue reading How to make better decisions:
4 Steps I Always Take To Fail
Success is counted sweetestBy those who ne’er succeed.To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest need. I’m a failed entrepreneur, which makes me a great employee. I’m a failed implementer, which makes me a great architect. I have a track record of unsuccesful projects, which makes me a great analyst. I failed at so many things I basically lost… Continue reading 4 Steps I Always Take To Fail
Apple Is The Fruit, Google Is The Tree
This whole “apple” name thing, with the bite in that logo, you know it is about the biblical genesis, right? Yeah, I know you did, I was just making sure. If I was the biblical snake today, that’s how I’d make sure everyone takes a bite out of the fruit of knowledge: I’d make it… Continue reading Apple Is The Fruit, Google Is The Tree
Should cancer be celebrated when it hits the people you despise?
It is not plainly wrong, that you can be sure of. There is a nice brain teaser in considering wether it is fair, right, correct and so forth to rejoice the imminent disappearance from the life time space continuum of some person, in this case John McCain. 1 First we have the basic tenant of when… Continue reading Should cancer be celebrated when it hits the people you despise?
It’s Samsung’s fault for Apple’s shitty products
Listen, there currently is no “next big thing.” Internet of shit. The “cloud” of no server admin. Ai. Yes, no capital “i” there. Voice Assistants. Text Assistants. Seriously? Everybody is busy crunching numbers, to analyse the present and predict the future, in an industry made by geeks to pleasure simpletons. The iPhone, with all its… Continue reading It’s Samsung’s fault for Apple’s shitty products
How to adult: be patient.
I think adulthood is split in three parts. In the first part, you are working hard to get all the things you wanted as a child. Material and immaterial things. In the second part, you are working hard to get all the things you wanted as a teenager. In the third part, you are finally… Continue reading How to adult: be patient.
Brainstorming is for solutions, not for ideas.
What headline should I use? A story about a camel? Here is why: people don’t gather around the campfire, buckle up for smarty pants time and start throwing ideas into the air! People tell stories around the campfire. Also, families don’t sit at dinner, put the genius hat on and emit weasel ideas to each other,… Continue reading Brainstorming is for solutions, not for ideas.
Opportunity Is What Happens When Luck Meets Preparation
Take the other pill: Yet, who am I to argue with Seneca? I think, all opportunity is based on a weird arrangement of the universe, on a specific moment. I think, there is no opportunity without luck. This might well be the reason for ninety-nine in one hundred startups failing. And, it is a soothing fact for… Continue reading Opportunity Is What Happens When Luck Meets Preparation
Who should be a manager?
Listen, I get it, you hate the word “p r o c e d u r e”. When you only hear about “procedures”, you get chicken pox. I just wanted to let you know it is just a word. A word is not harmful by itself. But I know, the founding fathers of our meritocracy… Continue reading Who should be a manager?
How to code
The computer is an asshole Learning to program a computer is a lot like talking to a person you’ve barely met. You are kinda awkward for a while, they are also a bit of holding back on emotions and both of you try not to screw it up. When you program a computer you will write… Continue reading How to code