No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere: I see Valhalla’s glories shine and strength shines equal, arming me from fear. Wotan within my breast, All-father, ever-present Deity! Life – that in me has rest, As I – undying life – have power in Thee!
Author Archives: Eugene Sheely
Genghis Khan Didn’t Need Sun Tzu
Most bestselling books are awful, specially business related. They usually are a bunch of pop psychology bullshit taken out of context or falsely turned into generalizations. One of these examples is Drive by Daniel Pink: He takes one example of a study done in a few hours. They picked up some random people (probably […]
Read an article in LinkedIn that seemed too over-simplistic. While the author is right in that the use of jargon when addressing people outside a profession can be counteractive, this is already intuitively done by most people. Telling someone that the jargon inside their profession isn’t understood by outsiders is redundant unless their audience is […]
Thoughts on Psychedelic Drugs and the Hero Worship of the “Spiritual Guides”
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 […]
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 […]