As George Carlin said, religion is the biggest scam. “I spent 15 years designing software products and businesses: reducing friction in onboarding, creating viral loops, building new features to increase retention, designing for improved network effects…The more I did it,… Read More »Religion as Software Business
This. “most of what experts know cannot be put into words. Not won’t — can’t. It is structurally tacit. It lives in the body, in the practice, in the cumulative pattern-recognition of having done a thing for a long time.… Read More »The Tacit Dimension: Why Your Best Engineers Can’t Tell You What They Know
Wanted to write this after the Eurovision but life got in a way even tough it is quite short one. The winner Bangaranga by Dara was great. But it is interesting to see the progress of it. Here is the… Read More »Bangaranga, Dara and The Importance of Presentation
Freedom matters. “The Industrial Revolution didn’t suddenly happen in England. For centuries, all of Europe had been increasing its pace of innovation. The printing press eventually led to the Enlightenment, which catalyzed the scientific revolution. The greater freedom in regions… Read More »A Brief History of the UK
When you are bored… “Imagine you’re Portugal. It’s 1249. You’ve been fighting Muslims for 500 years (and a few Christian neighbors too), and this year you finally reach the southern coast after conquering the Algarve region. You’re done with your… Read More »A Brief History of Portugal
It is simple. “If you’re a pirate—or a competing European power—and you want to get your hands on that wealth, you’re going to attack the weakest points between Veracruz and Spain. If you’re Spain, you want to protect the loot… Read More »A Brief History of the Caribbean
Nothing is like a common enemy. “The northern mountains might not be very conducive to peace in normal times. But these were not normal times. These peoples were all Christian, and they shared an enemy on the other side of… Read More »A Brief History of Spain
Deserts are bad. “Crossing the Sahara by land was impossible. The desert is massive. Miles and miles of nothing. The distance to cross it was just too great. The only way through it was through the Nile, but even then… Read More »Why Europeans Colonized America Before Africa
Mountains and passes and power. “These two passes, the one through Carcassonne and the other through the Rhône Valley, are the only two flat connections between the Northern European Plain and the Mediterranean. The ramifications have defined the power of… Read More »How to Understand France