In Ayn Rand’s famous “objectivist” manifesto: The Atlas Shrugged, the intelligent and hardworking capitalists give up on society because of taxation and regulation and create their own secretive country inside of a mountain where they get to create amazing technology without any need for environmental, or worker regulations, without universities…
Psychology has shown that we all have biases, things that make us think or feel about others who are different from us, and things we think and feel about those who are similar. We act on them unconsciously and in predictable and unpredictable ways.
One unpredictable way that people show…
I’ve had two startups. Both lasted too long and did not take off. From that experience I had some take-aways that I think you might find valuable if you are young and thinking of starting a company.
When working on the start-up I noticed that when young people (like me…
Facebook began as a rip-off of Hot or Not, then Zuckerberg stole the idea of the Winklevoss twins, stole the name of Facebook from Harvard and ripped off MySpace.
Of course there was a big difference between MySpace and Facebook, Facebook lied. Facebook gave the appearance of privacy while stealing…
Philosophers are great. In a sense, they are very much like artists and writers; they hold a mirror to us and they change our view of the world. What they are not however are political scientists or economists and most of us know this. No policy maker ever says “I’m…
Listening to the experts it is clear, the 6–3 majority will rule to end Roe v Wade. The impacts will be catastrophic, a modern society will end, but if RGB argued this case, things might have gone a different way.
The lawyers who argued made the mistake that Justice Ruth…
The first TV was created in 1929. By 1930 there was BBC, by 1933 Olympcs were broadcasted on TV and by 1950 nearly every modern nation had a TV station and a TV in most middle class homes. The first mobile phone call was made in 1973. …
It was 5 am and I was feeding my six-month-old daughter. To make use of the time, I was listening to the Jay Shetty podcast episode on insecurity and it made me ask the question of what is success and what is failure?
Many people look for results to define…
Another article came out today by Sarah Seltzer in Time Magazine that looked at the trend of Jewish leading roles going to non-Jewish actresses while the stereotypical roles go to Jewish actors. This is something that Sarah Silverman was one of the first to mention on Howard Stern and then…
Facebook appears to be on its heels following the testimony of Frances Haugen but with a push of a button it could easily stop any efforts to regulate it. This shows just how powerful Facebook is under Zuckerberg.
- Lobby congresspeople who are against congressmen who want to regulate Facebook.
- Donate…
