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This is a living archive of my thoughts, experiences, and hard-earned insights, drawn from an unusual life. Here you’ll find reflections on the food I’ve eaten, the things I’ve bought, the people I’ve encountered, the places I’ve seen, the books I’ve read, the quotes I’ve kept, and the trends I’ve spotted and capitalized on.
I write this for you, my children, those already here and those yet to come. Daddy loves you more than words can hold. I want each of you to live lives you’re proud of. This is my thinking, in my own voice, left here for you to explore. I hope one day it proves useful.
If, by some unlikely chance, I’m gone before I can guide you in person, let this stand as a poor substitute. But in the more likely case that I’m still here, let this serve as an intellectual archive, a record that I held these convictions long before you were born. May that give weight to my words, and credibility to the wisdom I hope to pass on to you.
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It’s a convenient fiction, but a fiction nonetheless. our experience tends to confirm that on one end of the political spectrum we have autocrats and tyrants—horrible, selfish thugs who occasionally stray into psychopathology. On the other end, we have democrats—elected representatives, presidents, and prime ministers who are the benevolent guardians of freedom. Leaders from these…
Somali children must memorize their lineage: this is more important than almost anything. Whenever a Somali meets a stranger, they ask each other, “Who are you?” They trace back their separate ancestries until they find a common forefather. If they were ever captured they were to say, three times, “Allah be my witness, I want…
Foundations for the Blockchain (How to create an immutable record without the need for a trusted third-party): 1.) Cryptographically link all the records 2.) Widely distributing copies of the records and links. 3.) Creating an incentive system for validating the record. (Mining, Rewards, Penalties)
The only thing we learn from history,’ it has been said, ‘is that men never learn from history’, a sweeping generalization perhaps, but one which the chaos in the world today goes far to confirm. What then can be the reason why, in a society which claims to probe every problem, the bases of history are…
I had an impression that she was waiting for me to say something in reply, but words had abandoned me. Instead, my thoughts were engaged in a struggle to maintain a facial expression what would not appear idiotic. She listened to me speak with a series of smiles, as though she were sipping at my…
belongs to a particular genre of legal fiction called ‘limited liability companies’. The global trade network of today is based on our trust in such fictional entities as the dollar, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the totemic trademarks of corporations. Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before…
1.) Start the exit process when it begins to bother you! 2.) Follow a process: – Check internal and external stakeholders. – Gather facts – Document them! – Check local laws! 3.) You have to have a Job Description in the first place! So you have something tangible to compare it to. 4.) Performance Review! – Share your findings in…
“Atheism: The acceptance of the non-existence of imaginary entities such as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Bronze Age sky ghosts.” A thinker cannot logically differentiate the nonexistence of a deity from the nonexistence of any other thing which does not exist. Principles by definition apply in general, rather than in particular, just as a…
The hardships in our lives, the traumas, increased out fulfillment by setting up contrasts that illuminated more clearly our everyday joys; or perhaps I viewed them instead as test that make us stronger by teaching us to endure; or did I believe, rather, that they simply amplified what we already were, in the end making…
Rather than focusing on practical, economic and entrepre- neurial knowledge, government schools quickly shifted the educational focus towards patriotic history, rote memorization and recitation, Latin and Greek, and an endless plethora of other useless and boring trivia. priests, like politicians, promote arbitrary but universal ethics, while excluding themselves from the moral rules they impose, which…
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