Month: October 2019

the devil, they say, is in the details. there is a person, anonymized as joe, who made a critical and critical cognitive error. yes, they were critical in polysemy. i was congratulating a colleague for a fundamentally important first deliverable. the colleague is not even old enough to drink and is barely figuring out the world of business. but instead of congratulating the young person, joe attacked my method of delivery and the (misunderstood) semantics of my words. i want so badly to slap joe back. but i won’t. i will spill my vitriol here. i am not truly angry, but i do need to vent so that this poison does not kill me. also, i need to observe and analyze. those are the first principles of success. take opportunities not to attack but to learn defensive strategies. do not climb into the ring. instead, manage the prize fighter and take your cut of the earnings. live in a lovely house on the beach while the prize fighter dies of dementia related to cte (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). i will take advantage. it’s okay. i do not need to be the victim all the time. i can be the passive or sometimes more than passive recipient. after all, joe wants a fight. let joe fight with someone else. i will smile and watch joe fall unconscious from head trauma over and over. and when joe falls permanently, i will be there to replace that spot with a new prize fighter.

statistical averages are basic. they are mathematically basic. any first-year stats student can calculate them. but i’m here to tell you, and i’m sure any second-year stats student has figured this out by now (less the truly gullible, which is around 50% of them ironically), is that averages are essentially useless. you don’t want to know how the average of 50 people behaves. sure, it’s all well and good to know that an individual will fall within the standard deviation or will be so close the median. what that knowledge allows you to do is to exclude outliers when you’re aiming for the average. ouch! any reasonably alive prokaryote can do that! you still won’t remotely know what that individual will do. what you really want is to know how to predict the path of that individual across the average or the regression line or whatever other signal you’re tracking. that is actual prediction. nothing we know of, by the way, reveals to us such a thing. that is the power of the quantum realm dominating our domain. factual knowledge of that will be the next true power. how far are we from that? based on anecdotal evidence that the corporate entities are barely figuring out statistical averages now (and wasting such knowledge on useless machine learning and artificial intelligence), we are leaps and bounds away from discovery. luckily, that power is beyond our reach at the moment. our insanely dumb market intelligence is still decades or centuries ahead in that regard. but woe be unto us should that power be finally uncovered… woe be unto us.

there’s a persistent myth out there. it started because the ambitiously useless criminals of the world needed to succeed. they saw millions of useless commoners out there and decided that they could tap into the mass potential hidden within. they invented the myth that there is intelligence hidden among the statistical averages. i am here to tell you such proclamations are a lie. the masses are useless. they drive themselves to baser and baser places by lowering their own average. the more popular culture perpetrates this lie, the more it feeds itself. it’s the worst sort of feedback loop. the masses are full of morons and more full of morons every day. the more of them there are and the stupider they become, the more exploitable they will be. they will eventually consume the earth like a creeping disease — that much is systematically inevitable. the cows are so stupid that they will eventually kill every living thing on earth, save the prokaryotes — the whole shebang will restart. sadly, the planet’s habitable zone will only allow for another 500 million years of RNA-based life processes. “civilization” is a blip that will only have lasted 11,000 years. people are morons. not jews. not gays. not blacks. people. all people. raise the bar! stop being stupid!

most people just aren’t interested in who i am or what i do. in general it’s true, but there are a few things that draw their attention. and of course there are rare individuals who pretend to be interested. i guess the problem is that i’ve been an outlier for so long that i just don’t care about other people’s petty lives. the generic face of the world is … well … rather disgusting. another problem is that i have a hard time expressing what i’m thinking because of the imprecision of language, language contexts and knowledge domains (of other people, obviously). the things i’m interested in seem to be statistically unpopular. what can i say? i like it this way. but don’t confuse this with weakness. your greatest failing is that you will ignore me and let me slip beneath the radar. by the time i’ve assumed control, your weaknesses will be completely insurmountable compared to my strengths. one of you is the rabbit. the other one of you is the hare. but i … i am the wolf.

i know there are marketplaces for online businesses. what about the ones that aren’t online? what about the founders?