Entrepreneurship

31 Dec 2018

Accurate Dictionary

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Cunning Linguistics, Definitive Definitions, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Future, Health, History, How to fix the world, How to human, Politics, Science! | 0

In a time of muddled language and words losing all meaning, it falls to the best and brightest among us to engage in a heroic effort to make language correspond to reality again, a Herculean, Confucius-inspired work of rectification of … Continued

12 Sep 2018

The commercial case for Mars

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, Future, How to fix the world, Science!, Spaaaaaaaace!, Tech | 0

First of all, commercializing Mars is not the point – colonizing Mars and becoming multiplanetary is good in itself. That being said, anything that’s self-sustaining and self-replicating grows exponentially to fill all available space. In the case of space, that’s a … Continued

29 Aug 2018

[Satire] Make money online with this super-secret guide to day-trading

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Bitcoin, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, How to human, Wisdomination on Wallstreet | 0

To sit on a boat in the Carribean, executing billion dollar trades from your laptop – isn’t that the dream? Day trading stocks, bonds, currencies, options, commodities and the like is one of those things that twenty-somethings sitting at their … Continued

17 Jun 2018

Per aspera is actually the best way ad astra

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, Future, How to fix the world, How to human, Politics, Science! | 0

There’s a theory called the “pump of evolution” that says mass extinction events were necessary for the rise of complex life, and eventually intelligence, although anyone who has spent more than five minutes on Twitter would seriously doubt intelligent life … Continued

13 Feb 2018

Elon Musk’s master plan to save humanity and stuff

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, Future, How to fix the world, Spaaaaaaaace!, Tech | 3

One common criticism of Elon Musk goes like this: “Musk is spreading himself too thin in ten thousand different projects, dividing his attention and endangering success in the ones that already seem to be on a good track. He should … Continued

10 Nov 2017

Making your life even better with the Talent Stack

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, How to human | 0

Accepted wisdom says that to have an exceptional career, you need exceptional skills – or perhaps luck, connections or other unfair things. I have good news for you: neither part is true. Luck and connections help, but as long as … Continued

31 Oct 2017

Why I’m done with Apple

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, Tech | 5

In short, because their products are now mediocre, and their business practices are evil. I’ll be the first to admit being, for a time, a giant Apple fannoun (I’m not sure we’re allowed to say “boy” anymore). This was in … Continued

25 Aug 2017

Self authoring program

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, Future, Health, How to fix the world, How to human, Science! | 1

Thinking about your life is valuable, and makes it more valuable. There have been roughly three traditional methods, all compatible: Therapy. Sitting in front of the fire in your study on the moors, with your trusty hound resting on your … Continued

30 Jun 2017

What do you really want?

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, How to human | 1

What do you want? Don’t worry, it’s a trick question. I mean really, really want? Aside from ziga zig ha. When you ask yourself this, the answer will be layered. What’s virtually certain is that the first answers that come … Continued

25 Jun 2017

Hunting dragons

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, How to human | 1

There are two basic ways you can face your demons. One is: “I sure hope I don’t run into any resistance as I’m trying to get the important thing done.” The other, much better way is, you hunt the bastards … Continued

9 May 2017

Nail the basics – and nothing else is necessary. Fail the basics – and nothing else will help.

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, Future, Health, How to human, Uncategorized | 0

I have good news for you, and bad news for lazy people. By and large, there are no secrets, shortcuts or silver bullets. The stuff that actually works is simple and you probably already know it. This is true in … Continued

11 Apr 2017

Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface startup – let’s do even better.

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Economics, Entrepreneurship, Future, Health, How to human, Science!, Tech | 0

Fellow time-travelling artificial intelligence uploaded into a passable, but not entirely convincing human body Elon Musk has unveiled a new company – Neuralink. Ever the man to go after whatever promises the greatest possible benefit to mankind, he will be developing brain-computer … Continued

7 Mar 2017

Spartan wealth

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Future, How to fix the world, How to human, Wisdomination on Wallstreet | 0

One of the surprising benefits of making respectable money is you stop lusting for a lot of the frivolous junk you thought would make you happy when you were not yet wealthy. Unless you live in a kleptocracy where conspicuous … Continued

1 Feb 2017

Digital rococo – why your shoehorn probably doesn’t need wifi

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, Future, Tech | 4

The basic design principle of keeping things simple is nowhere as needed as in consumer technology. Because nowhere else is there a greater tendency to overclutter products with pointless, expensive functions that really don’t work that well. A recent epic … Continued

30 Jan 2017

Your date with destiny

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, Health, How to fix the world, How to human | 2

People often suffer from the notion that they should wait for their lives to begin instead of living them – that something will – eventually – happen, the stars will align, and their lives will finally properly begin. I call … Continued

11 Jan 2017

2017 reading list

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Entrepreneurship, How to human, State of the Wisdomination | 2

By popular demand, and like last year, a list of recommended books follows, keeping with the format of one book per month. Realistically, not everyone will be interested in every single book, so for next year, the list will be … Continued

5 Dec 2016

A great solution to “robots destroying jobs”

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Economics, Entrepreneurship, Future, How to fix the world, How to human, Tech | 0

The solution to the robot “job apocalypse” isn’t just to invent new jobs – it’s also to revisit old ones that we’ve temporarily neglected. The more menial, generic work is done by the machines, the more demand there will be for … Continued

29 Nov 2016

Sustainable corruption

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Future, How to fix the world | 0

Let’s face it, there is pretty much only one problem in politics. Corruption. Now, I am not so naive as to consider it a completely solvable problem. But there are extremely harmful types, and there are relatively (relatively!) benign ones. … Continued

25 Nov 2016

What the hell happened to the future?

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Economics, Entrepreneurship, Future, How to fix the world, How to human, Science!, Spaaaaaaaace!, Tech | 7

When the world’s most valuable company presents a new product, I expect it to be a Martian colonial module, a fusion reactor or a hyperdrive, not a touch band to add emoji to messages half a second faster. There are multiple kinds … Continued

5 Nov 2016

Collectivism doesn’t exist

by Zbyhnev | posted in: Definitive Definitions, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Future, How to fix the world, Science! | 2

It’s amazing for people to work together and help each other. But “collectivism” is something else, typically a sneaky euphemism for the personal interests of a powerful few. Usually, fuzzy phrases such as “bigger society”, “community”, “solidarity” and “public interest” are … Continued

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