Capitalism and Fake Modernity
Capitalism is a type of economy in which wealth is privatized, as individuals own the means of producing goods and earn a profit. This economic system has shown itself historically to be highly innovative,...
How to Get People to Really Listen to You
There’s no magic 5 step formula. That might not be what you want to hear right now but trust me in the long run it’s easier to accept that life is nuanced and has...
A Simple Philosophy to Unlock Results
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_8mrYtWlY “You either progress, or you momentarily stay where you are until you progress but you can’t fail”. This is a quote from Paddy Brosnan from our podcast This Works. Paddy is a mindfulness and...
Walking the Creative Line
It might seem like a strange image for some but when I think of creativity I tend to think of Philippe Petit as he mindfully walks his tightrope high above the New York skyline....
Rugged individualism
The fundamental attitude towards a genuine Personalized healthcare Ultimate sustainability is the state desired in almost every aspect of our lives. Still, it is not invariably achieved, given the circumstances that escort every scenario at...
Semantic shift
Societal engineering and the centuries-old neglected modern autocracy Everything we see, do, or feel has a meaning. Linguistically we need specific information or beliefs intended to carry out in every communication we carve with others....
Five Habits You Should Stop to Be More Successful
Success comes from hammering away at your craft until other people take notice. And then keep doing it at a high level until people appreciate what you have to offer. And then, unless you’re...
The Applications of Quantum Entanglement
If you tickle one…both will laugh, applications of quantum entanglement. The Red Thread of Fate Quantum mechanics (QM; also known as quantum physics, quantum theory, the wave mechanical model, or matrix mechanics) is a fundamental theory...
Entrepreneurs and Unemployed People: The Two are Shockingly Similar
Let’s just preface this whole thing with the fact that it started with a joke of a Venn diagram. One of my friends made an off-hand comment that she needs to start coming to more...
Back to Basics of Software Design
As Ousterhout (2018) reminds us in his book ‘A Philosophy of Software Design” when addressing the problem of how to design good software we should bear in mind some principles in order to dig...
The Poison Killing Your Company Could Save it
Is pessimism killing your company’s work ethic? You should be able to answer this question pretty quickly. If the following phrases are abundant in your workspace, it’s likely that your leadership doesn’t know how to properly...
SXSW: Will AI eventually self-supervise and determine its own ethics?
This is what Hanson Robotics and others had to say at SXSW. Not long ago, Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to Sophia the humanoid robot. This made Sophia the world’s first robot to become a citizen...
Why Ethical AI is a Prerequisite for “True” AGI
That is the conclusion we have drawn from the current research and development for our radically-new, AI-enhanced technology, a DApp called DECENTR. An interesting article on the subject of “ethical AI” saw one expert concluding that: “A critical...
Patterns and Robotics: A Complex Reality
Hayek's famous work ‘The Theory of Complex Phenomena’ (Hayek, 1964) delves into the topic of complexity and asserts that the tension between a narrow or superficial and in-depth or real insight into complex phenomena...
Rogue genome editing twists DNA ethics
Genome editing is on the cutting edge of science. It’s also morally questionable and possibly illegal in many jurisdictions. Despite that, a Chinese scientist announced that he edited the genomes of two human embryos to...
Gift of life confronts social taboos
It’s an implanted fact: According to the American Transplant Foundation, 20 patients in the United States die every day due to lack of available organs for transplant. Up to eight lives can be saved...
Is This The Real Life?
“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?” once sang Freddie Mercury, now we say; “Alexa play Bohemian Rhapsody.” “Prior to the age of electricity, only real experience was possible. However, during the...
A Team Should Build the Most Impactful Parts of Its Software
Publicly available solutions are ubiquitous. These products can fill a team’s need so well that it is tempted to build its software from a mélange of packages sown together. A mishmash of libraries is...
Admit when you’re wrong.
Great leadership requires a solid foundation of self-esteem. It’s not the ones that are always wrong that we need to be worried about, it’s the ones that believe they never can be. Believing what you say,...
Should we be worried about our past?
On leaving behind digital breadcrumbs. In his revealing and subliminal book on Business Strategy, Only the Paranoid Survive, Intel’s C.E.O Andrew S. Grove (God rest his soul) wrote one of the most eerie sentence; “In technology,...