“there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything…
Four Hindrances to Happiness
I am going to review some forms of ignorance making life more difficult for us: Material ignorance: you perceive the…
Understand the psychology of FEAR imposed by the media. For most people it means living in ‘fight mode’, like 40.000 years ago. When you can be eaten by a lion at any moment, what sense does it make to prepare for a better future?. Don't fall into that trap. Keep planning and improving for a better future...
The Gateway Experience: Brain Hemisphere Synchronization in perspective
1. Introduction. In order to describe the Monroe Institute technique for achieving altered states of consciousness(the “Gateway Experience”) involving brain…
Platforms and the Chicken and Egg Problem
The fundamental problem with platforms is that they do not generate value with their first users. They suffer from the…
Analysis and Assessment: of Gateway Process
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The dualities: material / immaterial, spiritual / scientific, intuitive / rational , etc. are actually a fallacy. Same as matter and energy: its about different points of view. An illusion of opposites that is the result of our own limitations in perceiving the same fundamental reality.
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned”. – Richard Feynman
From Mechanical to Organical Business Models
Most businesses and startups are designed following the traditional mechanistic thinking of the last two centuries. This approach assumes that…
Gateway and Hemi-Sync
Now that we have briefly profiled the basic mechanics of the principal techniques for altering or expanding consciousness which share…
The basic plan for the Federal Reserve System
The basic plan for the Federal Reserve System was drafted at a secret meeting held in November of 1910 at…
Fiat Money and the Post-Covid Economy
Investors have stopped considering the value ‘utility’ and are moving to the value ‘store’. They buy apartments -like in China-…
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -TS Eliot (The Rock)
This wonderful quote from TS Eliot echoes the DIKW model of Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom. The model is pure academicism and therefore useless from the practical point of view, but...
A Bright Future
They say you don’t hear the shot that kills you. Because the bullet travels faster than the sound of the…
Platforms are not About Technology
Are you an entrepreneur? If you don’t have your own platform on the Internet, you tend to become a commodity….
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SQL vs Blockchain Databases
The problem of structuring data for unknown future uses was solved in the 70s and it’s called relational algebra. It…
Reporting, Bureaucracy and Misdiagnosis
In an interconnected world, the traditional way of analyzing reality based on cause-effect relationships is obsolete. The economy depends on…
From “Product Marketing” to “You Marketing”
Most marketing boards insist on ‘problem-solving’ as the main approach to gain customers. But solving immediate needs is only an…
Are Programmers going to be Replaced?
Programming is like dancing: everyone can do it, but very few do it so well that they get money in…
This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it...
Shannon's Information Theory is one of those few books with mathematical, technological and philosophical implications. A true genius that has been little studied.
The Hacking Philosophy
The hacking idea is intrinsic to any complex system. You discover the mechanics that make it to work, and then…