There are four very simple and by themselves near meaningless pieces of information that I’ve often thought about for the past few years. The first was in a biography of Napoleon (I can’t remember which one) where he said something in the likes of “I don’t spend much time in leisure, I don’t go […]
Category Archives: Business/Finance
On The Scam Of Defining Success As Happiness Instead Of Money
This intrinsic motivation bullshit is just a trick to not compensate employees properly. They’re turning it into a moral failing if you even make it explicit you’re interested in money. This is somewhat similar with what happened in the middle ages with Feudalism where the peasants where shammed for asking for higher wages by […]
Mastery of The Sky Will Lead To The Mole Man Age
I suspect that the introduction of “flying cars” (I hate that term but that’s what they’re being called) or use of bigger drones will cause a series of attacks on the general population in the likes we have never seen before. 9/11 being one of the most drastic examples, buy these being committed but otherwise […]
The False Cry of Entitlement
There’s currently a demand for womens soccer team to be paid the same as the mens team, in the name of equal pay and all that. I came across a Forbes article running some numbers, but not going far enough in it’s analysis: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2019/03/07/world-cup-soccer-pay-disparity-between-men-and-women-is-justified/ “As Dwight Jaynes pointed out four years ago after the U.S. […]
The False Claim of Using “Paradoxes” in Management
I’m starting to read management techniques that claim we need to start embracing paradoxes, and start listing outright contradictions. A paradox is something that seems a contradiction at first, but turns out to be coherent in a not so obvious way. A paradox isn’t a contradiction, and if you can’t correct the contradiction is a […]
Uranium for Long Term Investment?
I was curious to see Uranium reserves around the world. I wasn’t aware that Australia was number one, China and former USSR countries have a hefty amount, but US and allies seem to be on top. As societies become more complex, the amount of energy require to maintain it (think not only transportation with […]
Book Review: Data Science for Executives by Nir Kaldero
I liked the book overall, it’s an easy read that gives you a broad stroke of data science and it’s applications for business. It argues that the 4th industrial revolution is the most important one, and leaders and businesses will start using data to solve all of their problems, and finding hidden patterns in the […]
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 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 […]