Bayesian nets help prevent flawed statistical arguments and enable the leap from correlation to causation
A pragmatic programmer has to be an inquisitive, realistic critical thinker and fast adapter that is open to new perspectives and technologies
Traders trying to make a killing in an ever more sophisticated market economy are driven to ever smarter deals and lower moral standards
Flawed data collection and interpretation hurt the position and prospects of women in many different ways
Almost any country can hack its way to power, posing a threat to political systems and essential infrastructure world-wide
Today’s dominant ideology is the acceptance of ‘how the world really is’ and that any attempt to change that will lead to ruin
A hero is someone directing their rage towards achieving an unattainable goal and, if successful, ending up a star
To make the fashion industry sustainable (from both environmental and social perspective) consumers need to care and get engaged
From the start, WeWork’s business model was eerily similar to that of Regus while Adam Neumann’s main skill was conning investors
A start-up in retail should resolve significant friction in the value chain and/or the consumers’ lives
Apparently, the success factors that made Jack Ma are his command of the English language, his showmanship
AI increasingly constrains the domain of human creativity, similar to how science has constrained Faith
Like in other instances of decolonization, forming the USA has been a murky affair largely dependent on chance
A bunch of anarchists and misfits was able to defy the most powerful nations of the world for a surprisingly long time
Cyber warfare is getting increasingly sophisticated and the USA can no longer contain the threat of Russia and other foreign powers
Truly understanding strangers is difficult, but failing to do so may cause grave harm to individuals as well as society as a whole
Feigning intelligence is not too difficult, considering that people can be fooled in many different ways
Poverty is not just characterized by lack of money, but also by unpredictability of cash flow and risk exposure
The philosophy of the Silicon Valley elite is just a bunch of ill understood one-liners from preferably obscure thinkers
It is not political philosophy, but political geography that led Democrats in the USA to embrace the knowledge economy
Over the past decades, most economists have been forced to flex their opinion on the efficient market hypothesis
Marginal communities provide natural experiments that convincingly illustrate basic economical mechanisms
The escalating polarization in USA politics may well lead to an exit of California or Texas from the union
Natural philosophy transformed into science thanks to the commitment and sacrifice of some thrill-seeking geeks
Once people realize that the US will never ever be able to pay off its debt, inflation will skyrocket and the the economy will be in shambles
The Silicon Valley philosophy of innovation and disruption undervalues the importance of maintenance and durability
Geography has surprisingly strong explanatory power when it comes to long-term trends in politics and war
Finding and copying manuscripts used to be a major factor in the preservation, transfer and loss of knowledge
