It has been a very interesting year so far. If the two to three weeks of this year have taught us anything from across the world, it is that character is important. It can make you win, and it can be judged even better when you lose. The two examples came to us from theContinue reading “Predictions about 2021 and the Decade, Buddhism mixed with AI and the History of the PDF : The Week’s Most Interesting”
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Biden, MI, Ant, Gig Economy, WeWork: The Irony that is Life
Taoism is a philosophy of China, which celebrates 3 treasures, compassion, humility and frugality. Around the 9th Century, Taoists wanted to prepare a material for medicinal purposes, but also something that could be the elixir of life (something that grants eternal life or immortality). Predictably they couldn’t create it. In all these experiments they finally ended up creating another substance. Gunpowder.Continue reading “Biden, MI, Ant, Gig Economy, WeWork: The Irony that is Life”
Silicon Valley, Trade, CRISPR and School Education: The Invisible Variable Syndrome
We have powerful enough computational power in the world today that if you do enter in all the variables required to predict the future then you are most likely to get a very accurate forecast. This exceptional power can blur the line between reality and science fiction. But the challenge in such models is the same as itContinue reading “Silicon Valley, Trade, CRISPR and School Education: The Invisible Variable Syndrome”
Google, Delhivery, SMIC, VC and COVID Recovery: The Week’s Most Interesting
A rather sad week, with possible war on the border,news of suicides, and rising cases. Some streaks on sunlight as at least one big company keeps its promise of being debt free as compared to the massive defaults we are used to of the last couple of years. So this week I wanted to do 2 things. The firstContinue reading “Google, Delhivery, SMIC, VC and COVID Recovery: The Week’s Most Interesting”
Iran, Saving the Internet, Walmart, Elon Musk and Hong Kong: The Week’s Most Interesting
Hi,Since never before in our times was economic survival so intertwined with human survival, economies opening everywhere and record jumps in coronavirus cases is very similar to the Protogoras’s Paradox (https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/35296/protagorass-paradox-an-unsolved-court-case). I will leave it up to your imagination as to how they relate to our times, but trust me the debate has just started. There are a bunch of articlesContinue reading “Iran, Saving the Internet, Walmart, Elon Musk and Hong Kong: The Week’s Most Interesting”
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