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 […]
Category Archives: “Man is by nature a political animal”
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 […]
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 […]
Thoughts on Amazon: Rebuttal to the Recent Attacks and the Supposed Cheating and Effects Amazon Has on Small Businesses
At the moment Bezos and Amazon is being attacked by all sides as a destroyer of small businesses and retail. The is happening through two methods: The business model is just too damn effective. As it grows it can start leveraging economy of scales. For example: Maybe the profit margin is reduced by giving free […]
Logic: A Forgotten Process
I’ve often noticed no one seems to understand what the hell logic is. You can quickly find this by simply asking “what’s the method you’re using to draw your conclusion? What type of logic are you applying?” and they’re dumbfounded. Often times they avoid giving a straight answer because they simply don’t want to look […]
Sun Tzu Is Overrated, Miyamoto Musashi is Underrated
I enjoy a good Sun Tzu quote just like the other guy, But the supposed universal insights are highly overrated. This is especially the case when trying to apply the principles from The Art of War outside warfare, such as business or life in general. One of my favorite contemporary writers is Edward Luttwak. He […]