"During the 2020s, key technologies will converge to completely disrupt the five foundational sectors that underpin the global economy, and with them every major industry in the world today. The knock-on effects for society will be as profound as the extraordinary possibilities that emerge.In information, energy, food, transportation, and materials, costs will fall by 10x or … Continue reading The Age of Freedom, RethinkX
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How NFTs Create Value
"[Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs)] enable new markets by allowing people to create and build upon new forms of ownership. These projects succeed by leveraging a core dynamic of crypto: A token’s worth comes from users’ shared agreement — and this means that the community one builds around NFTs quite literally creates those NFTs’ underlying value. And … Continue reading How NFTs Create Value
Hunter S. Thompson’s Day
After talking about the Dalai Lama's daily schedule, I came across Hunter S. Thompson's and thought it was a nice yin to that yang. 3:00 p.m. - rise.3:05 - Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhill cigarette3:45 - cocaine3:50 - another glass of Chivas, Dunhill4:05 - first cup of coffee, Dunhill4:15 - cocaine4:16 - orange … Continue reading Hunter S. Thompson’s Day
Rucking, or Walking with a Weighted Pack on Your Back
A gallon jug of vinegar and two 24 oz salsa jars in an old running day pack makes for a 15 pound pack "Just add a bit of weight to any old pack you have lying around the house, take a walk, and you’ll open up a whole new world of fitness...For the average guy, … Continue reading Rucking, or Walking with a Weighted Pack on Your Back
A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard (1899)
"In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion.When war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba - no one … Continue reading A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard (1899)
Rich Asshole Syndrome
"Christopher Ryan, author of Civilised to Death: The Price of Progress, says when people become wealthy, they tend to purchase “separation and isolation” (bigger houses, private travel and so on). This, he says, has the effect of reducing empathy. Those further down the pecking order do not have this option. According to a 2017 study … Continue reading Rich Asshole Syndrome
Read Something Great
"Timeless articles from the belly of the internet. Manually curated. Served 5 at a time."-https://www.readsomethinggreat.com
The Computers Are Out of Their Boxes
"What does that mean? Well, computers haven’t changed much in 40 or 50 years. They’re smaller and faster, but they’re still boxes with processors that run instructions from humans. AI changes that on at least three fronts: how computers are made, how they’re programmed, and how they’re used. Ultimately, it will change what they are … Continue reading The Computers Are Out of Their Boxes
Zuihitsu: What Is It?
"The Japanese describe the genre as “a running brush” as it does not lie so much in the subjects it deals with but rather in the movement of the wind. The style consists of personal interconnected essays or fragmented ideas that respond to the author’s surroundings; however, these “essays” jump from one to the other … Continue reading Zuihitsu: What Is It?
Information != Knowledge != Wisdom
"In many academic fields, the number of papers published each year has increased significantly over time. Policy measures aim to increase the quantity of scientists, research funding, and scientific output, which is measured by the number of papers produced. These quantitative metrics determine the career trajectories of scholars and evaluations of academic departments, institutions, and … Continue reading Information != Knowledge != Wisdom
Installing Citrix Workplace on Ubuntu Linux
Installation Download the Citrix Workspace app from the official website.Install using dpkg: $ cd Downloads $ sudo dpkg -i Citrix-Workspace.deb Installing a CA Certificate The pre-installed certificates might work for you. If you get errors when trying to use Citrix, then you'll likely need to install a CA certificate. Go to the VPN website you … Continue reading Installing Citrix Workplace on Ubuntu Linux
Dan Savage Revolutionized Sex…
"Over the years, Savage honed his philosophy on boundaries—we should all be good, giving, and game for our partners, but we should also accept their hard limits as “the price of admission.” He built up an encyclopedic knowledge of kink and the mechanics of sex: the long-term effects of nipple clamps, how to stage an … Continue reading Dan Savage Revolutionized Sex…
Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict
"Written even before the advent of America’s war in Vietnam, Dune captures a world in which war is inherently asymmetric, where head-on, conventional military conflict has largely been replaced with all the subtler ways that humans seek to dominate one another: insurgency and counterinsurgency, sabotage and assassination, diplomacy, espionage and treachery, proxy wars and resource … Continue reading Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict
Modern Piña Colada
"Four years into our marriage, my husband found me on OkCupid.I had only joined the site to check out his profile. He had joined to find someone else......Then I received a sweet message: “I see we’re a 98 percent match. Would you like to meet up and see what life has to offer?It was from … Continue reading Modern Piña Colada
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