A life of destination brand
Like small fish cannot eat larger one, small destination brands cannot digest large number of tourists. Vomiting comes as necessary result in best case. Continue Reading
Civilization
Capitalism is not dead. Long live Homonism!
Capitalism was silently replaced by homonism years ago. Continue Reading
Pride and prejudice
Both hate speech and climate change panic share values of social constructivism. Both deny evolution as natural selection, both deny complexity that underlies not only evolution but all natural phenomena and both overestimate powers of human rationality. Social constructivism should thus be considered as major threat to human civilization at the moment. Continue Reading
Agent
Agent is a complex system that behaves like being alive. Continue Reading
Risk upgraded by Taleb
Risk does not lie in probability of event, but in optionality. Risk should not be evaluated on rationality, but optionality, meaning on heuristic calculation of gains and loses which are in complex environment always asymmetrical. Lessons given by Nassim Nicholas… Continue Reading
Why tolerance is not so easy?
A post in a small Italian restaurant saying: Smoking is tolerated but not appreciated. Continue Reading
Mining in 21st Century (cryptocurrency)
Cryptocurrency mining. As if gold or silver mining? Apparently, there is a deliberate tendency to understand cryptocurrencies mining as traditional mining. For that same purpose the total amount of each currency is limited with a clear resemblance to that of… Continue Reading
Global warming as a new type of global war
Even God himself was less pretentious than humans regarding global warming. Continue Reading
Corruption – from an evolutionary point of view
Corruption is not an evil per se, but a medicine that has to be handled with care, like any medicine. Continue Reading
Power law
Power law allows to connect entropy and information to basic social concepts. Continue Reading