This year was about full focus on getting clairvoyance to my business.
I had luck with my only success story in startups, smuff.ro which supported me financially to have time catching up the flow, to bleed on the edge of technology, to understand as I can our world today and the trends behind driving it.
Newsledge is what happening today — a new lifestyle — being with the news and gaining advantage from it.
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Your identity is too important to be owned by any one company.
Your friends are too important to be owned by any one company.
Find the best sources. Combine with your existing knowledge, arrange to your mind map. Format in such way it can grow. Add your secret ingredients, compose in such way it touches harmony. Enjoy the beauty and the force of the creation you are part of.
Sensing > Filtering > Reasoning > Creating > Enjoying.
Use all existing tools to open as much channels as possible. Keep the process simple, natural, make it fun. Re-invest in your tools and channels.
Focus on adding structure to the unstructured, to order the unordered. Be capable to name things and make them yours. Make sure your ideas are followed. Structure > Name > Fame.
The way creation follows is an universal rule. The universe, the Greek drama, Shakespeare, all creators and you are driven by these steps. This is the canon of creating and enjoying knowledge.
First comes the hard work to conquer your fear to meet the unknown, to stop ignoring things that matter, to be able to sense the noise, to start feeding yourself with source you consider valuable.
After the fear comes the acceptance once you’ve created usable interfaces to the unknown. You’ve already identified your heroes, leaders, points to follow on the subject. Noise is filtered into signal and you’ll start learning by combination and logistics.
You’ll gain self confidence by becoming able to share. You are now part of a culture you are proud of, an accepted member of a tribe — your reasoning has finally an echo. Your format strengthens, your growth started.
Once you are able to use what you are — you become master to, intelligent to your environment. You are part of the revolution your tribe is aiming for, you are a creator in harmony with your goals and your achievements.
This is called love, evolution, progress as everyone desires, the all wanted flow, the beauty and the force of knowledge.
I was wondering recently why companies are spending so much on software solutions when there are many open source versions of the same software available for free.
If I were a company leader investing in software infrastructure first I would hire a hacker to consult me, and customize an open source software for my personal needs. If a single hacker wouldn’t be enough I would sponsor an already running open source project to get my solution.
The relation between angel investors, venture capital — the current startup culture — and hackers is the same like the model sketched above.
The world is digital, the war on it started. There won’t be blood and we all will win. Read more.
Give me a stable point and I’ll dislodge the world.
Socrates.
And we have that point.
Watching recently BBC’s documentary The Century of the Self (2002) shed light on me how strongly scientific discoveries, socio-cultural evolution, and, the power and control structures are working together to advance civilisation.
Internet as the Universe for Synthetic Life started to get it’s own native infrastructure. Read more.
Currently there are two viable business models on the net:
After their success the next business will be to reorganise our lives based on transparent governing structures.
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Since its inception the internet was meant to deconstruct the existing real world barriers between humans. It brought people closer by eliminating the layers on which power structures were built. Making control transparent let human culture to evolve faster than whenever before in the history.
The era of hacker superheroes — NASA crackers, alpha geeks, young web millionaires — is going to be history soon.
As the internet user base is changing the web will be taken over by you, coming from outside, from the real life.
Internet tends to be an open system where consumers are in the same way important as the product makers and sellers. Success is measured by community support and it is assured by complete transparency, trust.
Marketing your online products cannot be done well without strong community support. A future webshop must be completely user and community driven, your duty as a webshop owner is to build trust and make your existing customer base to connect you to the next customers.
Today industrial society is replaced by information society and the knowledge economy. From instant consumption as a passive player there is a shift for instant production and knowledge creation with active involvement.
Singularity as the next metasystem transition is about the Control of Culture. Spreading memes makes the most important question today.
The 21th century is driven by revolutions opening — napstering — all closed systems. Old media will be opened based on asymmetry as the new world order: small is taking over the huge.
Ruby is one of the latest programming languages becoming mainstream in our days.
Being so human-friendly:
# Output "I love Ruby" say = "I love Ruby" puts say # Output "I *LOVE* RUBY" say['love'] = "*love*" puts say.upcase # Output "I *love* Ruby" # five times 5.times { puts say }
Feature: Search courses In order to ensure better utilization of courses Potential students should be able to search for courses Scenario: Search by topic Given there are 240 courses which do not have the topic "biology" And there are 3 courses A,B,C that each have "biology" as one of the topics When I search for "biology" Then I should see the following courses: | title | | A | | B | | C |
one might think it was designed to fill the gap between human and computer languages.
Raised as a programmer I had to move towards management and business jobs because of the complexity of past programming languages. Before Ruby when programming one had to focus on form instead of function, on technical artifacts instead of business logic,
on abstract code constructs instead of creativity. There were no flow.
Computer culture had to advance to a level where a programming language was designed for fun and wide-spread usage instead of focusing on some abstract technical merits.
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In order to get on the flow in your everyday professional work you must have the necessary skills and toolset beside the right mindset.
Mindset means freedom to work as you wish without constraints.
Skills must be at expert level, your tools must be the most performant you can handle and afford.
Trying to get above, this time relaxed
Human evolution is shaped by (scientific) discoveries applied to real world (upon us the people) by power structures (state and capital).
In scientific theory V.A. Turchin’s metasystem transitions are showing undoubtedly the path we will follow, whats next to humanity/the world.
Currently we are living the “Control of Thought” era (evolutionary phase #5) which will be followed by the “Control of Culture” era. These eras might span decades or centuries, nobody knows. And nobody can even imagine what the next metasystem transition will be.
The metasytem transition theory is proven inside the boundaries of cybernetics, as 1+1=2 is proven in mathematics.
In real life physicist are still looking for the fifth dimension after the spacetime. If found the theory will be confirmed, and applied upon our lives.
Until now it was speculated the fifth dimension would be probability. Today Albert-László Barabási suggest that it would be something else, very similar, but a law clearly applicable to our world.
This law could be the hidden pattern behind everything we do, thus know.
Such law would simply clear the picture in an objective way about how we, humans are filling this spacetime.
Focus only to what really matters.
Be prepared to say no by making hard but clear choices.
Time is the most valuable non-renewable, infinite resource our world has.
Attention is when a portion of time is taken by an individual.
Attention transforms time into energy. If you spend it admiring Tom Cruise you will become less and he will become more.
Reality is built by the energies created by individuals spending attention.
We know from quantum physics every object starts to exist when it is started to be watched, analysed.
In the same way in our life things are starting to exist when we are starting to pay attention to them. And the strenght of their existence depends on the amount of attention they are getting.
Proven is that those objects which are not under observation at all are in the state of their superposition — having all their values, characteristics and proprties co-existing in silence.
The world around us can have any facets we could ever imagine. And it is in reality how we are thinking about it.
We build the world around with our attention, focus. The most focused things will become the most lively ones.
The larger the community the stronger the reality it is projecting.
If you are watching tv news about war, diseases, corrupt politicians — the world will become as projected from behind.
If you spend time making it better and get others help you — it could show that face you want to see.
Everybody knows today all of us are running after the flow.
It is also clear we are now living in an attention-based economy.
Attention makes the flow. Prioritise your attention to maximise the profit.
I really envy a friend of mine (who is an artist) when watching him working.
He does small tasks, he is finishing something in minutes or half an hour.
Even (and yet) he can finish complete works in a day.
We, the others might have jobs spanning longer period of time to finish.
In order to catch the flow we should split our job to smaller tasks, we should try doing less at once.
A good example would be Tumblr. Since I’ve started using it I no longer write blog posts.
A blog post would take hours to be completed — such impossible to span so much flowing attention.
Today a literated and agile mind has to process tremenduous amount of information almost constantly.
There is so much to dare out there, and so many questions inside.
Future products and services, businesses must focus to one thing: let the user empty its head, let the attention spent being rewarded.
