March 25, 2024
How do you know when it’s a word?
You know it’s a word: When you have a word for it. When you know it. Everything you know is a word. Side note:The internet, your smartphone, and AI don’t know when it’s a word because they are net, phone, and artificial.
March 25, 2024
The secret of change
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates . “To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller Side note:The above two quotes summarize “The Origin of Humanity” (that I’m the author of).
March 25, 2024
My career has 4 weird, distinct milestones
Milestone 1 1974: Hired by the-then 2nd largest computer company in the world. Promoted to increasing management positions in 1976 in Switzerland, France, Europe, and the USA over the next 22 years. Quit in 1996. Milestone 2 1996: Hired by executive consultancy firm. Promoted to regional manager 1998. Quit in 2000. Milestone 3 2000: Started multiple online businesses. Bankrupt in 2011. Restarted 2012 with $800 in jeans pocket. Milestone 4 2016: Stumbled upon the fact
March 9, 2024
Act
You want to understand act. I believe that’s why you’re here, and if we begin with what we agree on, that makes it easy to understand what this post is about. It is safe and there’s no risk involved, for it’s only a train of thought, as opposed to a train on rails. On top of that, this train will get you there What do you say? I say let’s dive in. What is act?
January 28, 2024
Decisions
This post is about decisions. How do we get to make them? Have we already made decisions since before we learned the words to describe them with? If so, what had to happen before we made our first? ENERGY Energy doesn’t do arguments. Instead, energy invents and creates. More choices than any word-user can handle. Since the beginning of words that energy invented, our ancestors invented the word-accelerators. INTELLIGENCE We measure our own IQ. Why
January 28, 2024
Imagine the end
Imagine the end, when everything is done and over with. At the risk of repeating myself, imagine you being dead. Implied in you now dead is things have changed. The easiest thing to do when faced with things have changed — which brings fear, is usually how it works — is to decide to become cynical or hope that the change you fear is nothing but a fad, soon to disappear. The possibilities of you
December 21, 2023
The boy with the wishful eyes
Back when the ponies ran, when the girls were young and the odds were there to beat, my little personal winning streak ended as it had begun, naturally, without my being aware of it. Why me? Why not someone else who deserved it? My winning streak ended like a black-feathered bird bursting the sky had landed on me. With no
November 18, 2023
Don’t give up
In this world of never-ending responses to more information than any word-user can handle — but that’s nevertheless a mere walk in the park for the wordless fire, wind, earth, and water — it ain’t easy to be the master of your moments. All I’m saying is it doesn’t have to be that hard. The minute we decide to not give up, we muster unexpected strengths to accepting the world as it is, not as