Agent
An agent is a complex system that behaves like being alive. Continue Reading
Civilisation
Risk upgraded by Taleb
Risk does not lie in the probability of an event but optionality. Risk should not be evaluated on rationality but optionality, meaning a heuristic calculation of gains and losses, always asymmetrical in a complex environment. Lessons given by Nassim Nicholas… Continue Reading
Why tolerance is not so easy?
Tolerance is not giving away. Tolerance is a way to find a (hard) way to find my place in the temple of humanity. 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 an unmistakable 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 enemy of civilisation, but a friend to be treated with care. Just enough corruption may not sound like a position that would elicit much admiration. But are we talking about admiration or the best possible sustainable strategies? Continue Reading
Power law
Power law allows to connect entropy and information to basic social concepts. Continue Reading
Subsidies are contrary to circular economy principles
Value chains in organizations can be understood metaphorically as micro power plants that generate energy (value creation) from consumed inputs ( capitals ). Value chains are constructed to add value by producing a slightly greater output value than the sum… Continue Reading
An integrated model for societal exchange
There are two triggers for this post: The first comes from the straw man argument against capitalism as a system that assumes humans are homo economicus. This post will show that homo economicus and its rationality can be embedded in… Continue Reading
Integrated reporting as a part of organizational memetics
Featured image: Matevž Paternoster photo of 5.200 years old wheel found near Ljubljana Integrated reporting (IR) is a global initiative to upgrade organisational reporting. From the perspective of traditional reporting IR objectives are difficult to understand. Or better: they could be… Continue Reading