A historical collection of our writing.
Last Uncertainty Wednesday I wrote that “Stuff can and will go wrong, with varying degrees of bad consequences.” One direct corollary of this is that we will all face setbacks in our life. A key question then is what happens next. Do you give up? Or do you learn, persist and try a new approach? […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Ok, so technically it is Thursday, but here is the latest Uncertainty Wednesday post. Today I want to draw a second important conclusion that follows from the post about the pervasiveness of uncertainty and last week’s post about the fundamental unknowability of your alternative lives: There is no […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
NOTE: The following excerpt is the introduction to the third part of my book World After Capital. The second major goal of World After Capital is to propose an approach for a transition to the Knowledge Age. The challenge is to overcome the limits of capitalism, by moving past a society centered on […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In the last Uncertainty Wednesday, I told three episodes from my life to illustrated just how pervasive uncertainty is in our lives. Today I want to tackle the first and maybe most fundamental implication of that: you cannot know what your life would have been had you made a different decision. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
NOTE: I am resuming posting excerpts from my draft book World After Capital. The previous post introduced the Knowledge Loop. Today’s post covers the promise and peril of a Digital Knowledge Loop and also wraps up Part Two of the book. The zero marginal cost and universality of digital technologies […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
After a six week hiatus I am resuming Uncertainty Wednesday. Much as I have done at varying points with my prior Tech Tuesday series, I have decided to head off in a different direction, at least for some time. Instead of the theoretical approach so far, I will focus more on the philosophy of living […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
