I think I first heard it during a YouTube discussion with Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Naval Ravikant, and I’m pretty sure it was Naval who laid it out in the following way… ‘Sufficiently complex systems express themselves differently at different levels of complexity’. And I had one of those rare intellectual moments where my jaw […]
WARNING, Major Spoilers Ahead. I understand why some people don’t like the first Avatar movie. Whenever you shove real world politics into a story, and try to tell people what to think, it sucks. Avatar has a very obvious environmental message, and thus falls into predictable good vs bad tropes that in parts make for […]
The human race has been here many times before. The job of hunter gatherer was destroyed by the farmer. Most European farming jobs were destroyed by the industrial revolution. And of course, we’ve all heard the story of how the horse-and-buggy industry was put out of business by cars. Unfortunately for the technologists and sensationalists […]
Partly because, if you’re anything like me, you’re something of a nerd. In truth, I think everyone’s somewhere on the nerd spectrum, which can apply to all sorts of things besides the traditional interest in science, technology, sci-fi or fantasy genres. Nerd is just shorthand for ‘passionately interested in something’, and in my opinion should […]
Read More… from Don’t Be Afraid of Reading or Watching Trash
Well, publicity, obviously. Publicity is a huge part of any business endeavour, and it’s something I’ve been lacking. When you’re published by a big traditional publisher, they’ll arrange some interviews, get some reviews for your book in a newspaper, that kind of thing. When you switch to independent publishing as I did, you lose all […]