In this essay, I aim to explore a few key points. First, the era of “bigger is more efficient” has long passed. Small, dynamic organizations are now far more efficient and practical. Gatekeeping, a legacy of large corporations, is holding us back. We need our governments to stop protecting assets from us and instead focus… Read More True Markets: Contemporary Economics
I am breathless I cannot breathe I am legless without a drop to drink I am armless although I have wielded arms I am heartless I am heartless I am heartless But still sad I was so close to absolute power Then a new rival arrived on… Read More The things we make
Inflation is a tool of the capitalist. Or just a random thing that happens in a complex system of interacting…h.hh.t.yt,6u… Read More Inflation . What is it?
Accept that the AI made in our image could be conscious or accept that consciousness is something non-physical. Or at least requires squishiness.… Read More Should we be afraid of AI?
Documentary from the BBC just when the GFC was unfolding. It was obviously in the works beforehand and covers how the determinist idea of mathematics was fractured by chaos theory and the “butterfly effect”. The last segment with Lovelock (from Gaia theory fame) and how we are on a slope of climate change rather than… Read More High Anxieties doco – the mathematics of Chaos (BBC 2008)
The decentralised/blockchain community holds independence, freedom and a lack of hierarchy as a core ideal, however they are using a flawed method from game theory that will do the opposite of their intentions. Staking Staking is everywhere in the new decentralised economy. Whether it be Proof-of-Stake to determine who gets to verify a transaction –… Read More The problem with staking in the decentralised world
We stand idle in the heat Crammed onto a platform waiting for a train delayed by 10 minutes The platform is overcrowded move down the platform, move down the platform the announcer keeps saying To where I wonder I have spent the last 8 hours idly moving data around a spreadsheet something a computer could… Read More The Age of Idleness
Integrated decentralised Guaranteed Income (GI) of 30k (K30,000), with a full-Ampleforth scaled stable coin, face recognition based verification of unique identity + Idena (flip tests) sweep to weed out fake accounts. Demurrage and flow siphon (transaction tax) to control inflation. Automated self-lending (DeFi) service, coin/token/fiat exchange, pay per use social media. And social money for… Read More Decentralised UBI with stable coin and uses – DemoKratia
Suburbia – An odd thing to choose “The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car. … Read More Suburbia – an odd thing to choose
WFH is confusing and maybe progress.… Read More Work in the post Covid era