What Creators Know About Patents. Great creators know that patents are mostly a human video game of sorts that they are required to partake in. They create things because they have a disease of the soul that makes them feel sick if they’re not creating things. Patents are not necessary for a resourceful creator’s success. […]
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Quotes About Creativity, Transhumanism, Behavior, Technology, and Entrepreneurship “I think this whole Valley has gotten way ahead of itself, and I’m excited for the crash, and for all the pretenders to clear out and for the people who are the die-hards, the builders, the people who have been hustling and selling candy in their high […]
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Necessary Ingredients for Greatness: Doggedness, Chutzpah, Grit, and Obsession. Being successful takes an immutable understanding of current patterns in life and obsession. Myshkin Ingawale built 32 prototypes before coming up with an anemia diagnosis solution using electroplethysmography as the backbone technology. Edison once said “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention […]
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The Congressional Throughput Problem: Do We Need More People in Congress? One of the most fascinating topics I studied in Engineering school was Queuing theory. It had me constantly thinking about throughput, bottlenecks, and queues. In physics, we learn that many innovations have are simply impossible to build because the available known materials at hand […]
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Your Digestive System is Combinatorially Complex. Your gut system has a greater gut bacteria count than the body’s entire cell count. You should be immediately suspicious of anyone proposing a one-size-fits-all dietary solution that doesn’t disclose their recipe or tradeoffs in ingredients sizes. “Rapid gene-sequencing techniques have revealed that the biggest and most diverse metropolises […]
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NASA needs Plutonium — 238 For Interstellar Flight: The Only Viable Production Source is Nuclear Weapons Production Waste Plutonium-238 Plutonium-238 is a powerful alpha emitter which makes it different from other types of Plutonium isotopes. There’s 20 classified radioisotopes of plutonium. Plutonium-238 makes up 1–2 percent of plutonium producing reactors. The half-life is about 88 years. What […]
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Last Night, I Thought About How to Save the Planet Last night, I tried contemplating how to save the planet. In more elaborate terms, the world is basically being destroyed environmentally and this afflicts everything. With a huge body of evidence, the only thing in the world that is becoming significantly worse is our environment. […]
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How to Manipulate the NBA All Star Voting Mechanism I don’t really keep track of sports. Recently, I did an article on how I tried attacking pro-ISIS twitter accounts with twitter bots. I failed miserably with a low CTR. All Star Voting Can Be Rigged. The reason I’m publishing this post is that someone that’s remotely […]
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tldr: Solivagant night leads to cool UX discovery. Tumblr gets it right. Wandering Tumblr for Inspiration My work schedule is pseudorandom. Sometimes, for motivation, I browse tumblr. I run searches that get me amped up about life or surface very real stuff. War Zones, Iraq-Iran War, and Photography I’ll explore the works of Goran Tomasevic, […]
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An Energy Source’s True Value An energy source’s true value to humanity is directly proportional to energy density and inversely proportional to the number of species it kills in the process. It doesn’t matter if Coal pollutes less than Oil etc…. Because invariably they’re still causing an abnormally high rate of species extinction. This is […]
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