I saw a recent post on LinkedIn talking about Dr. Richard Alpert, a professor who went to Mexico to take psychedelic mushrooms in the 60’s and attempted to make their consumption popular in the US. The American now goes by the name of Ram Dass as he adopted the Hindu religion and identity fully. The […]
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Thoughts on Management Trends for “Networks/Complexity”
The Charlatan by Bernardino Mei While there are some very good contemporary thinkers using the ideas of complexity theories and networks inside business, there seems to be a trend of having these ideas being picked up by consultants and authors to be dumb down and misapplied. Here’s an example that popped on my feed […]
Possible Unspoken Leverage Between US-China Trade War
Bloomberg has been breaking stories showing Chinese involvement in massive espionage on the US, these seems to include government, corporate and at the individual level: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-13/marriott-hack-china-is-greatest-threat-to-americans-privacy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies These news clearly make the so-called Russian threats of hacking look mild in comparison, assuming that the claims were true. If you were to watch the congressional […]
Arya Stark is Dead
I originally posted this on my Blogger in 03/23/17, decided to transfer it here since the finale is coming up in a few months. While the same assumption has been made by others in Reddit, and there’s a couple of videos on YouTube I’ve seen pop-up on a few channels I follow, they never […]
Thoughts on The Relations Between Space Force, US-China Trade War, New Military Technology Being Released After IP Protections Agreements Signed
So you might remember that Trump made a new branch of the military called Space Force. There’s some critics in the Senate saying we need to keep Space explorations on the air-force division, no need for a new branch. In any case, it’s happening. Personally I think it make mores sense to have a different […]
Book Review: African Genesis by Robert Ardrey
This is one of the favorite books I’ve ever read. Some of the data has been updated so far, but the logic and focus on realism are superb. By this I mean that there was an attempt to truly see reality as it is, while more modern books tends to project an ideal to the […]
Thoughts on Realism with Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan has always seemed to me a prime example of Realpolitik despite never being associated as such. Not only in the organization of the army, legal system and carriers, but in overall military decisions. The Mongolians were very few in number, riding into faraway lands. When they took over a Muslim city they couldn’t […]
Thoughts on “Networking”
The 100 history of the House of Medici reminds me of today’s over focus on networking the expense of everything else. In their rise to power they kept a keep eye on the numbers, and it was through their accounting methods that they became rich along with carefully placed networking and power moves. The generations […]