Category Thoughts

Don’t Look Up (2021)

“I’ll believe it when I see it” …The mentality preventing humanity from addressing crises. Or perhaps that’s the excuse. What if in reality we have become exclusively self-serving, while still craving society’s acceptance.

Learn CS

Tech is wonderful. What’s more wonderful is the abundance of free resources to learn about tech, to then create your own tech.

Recap – The Matrix (spoiler)

The Matrix is a giant virtual reality simulation where the machines that currently rule the world are storing what’s left of the human race. There is a small resistance force of humans outside the Matrix who, because they are aware…

What would our societies look like if elected officials were limited to one term only (four years)? What would our societies look like if we completed a preferendum at each general election? Meaning, ranking issues to focus on, in order…

DeFi = Democratic Finance?

Imagine using zk proofs for affordability, NFTs for land registry deeds, and decentralised funding pools to obtain a mortgage. Or using crypto collateral to borrow, while the collateral generates its own yield and pays down the loan.

Petit Pli

Here’s Petit Pli’s pitch that I read up on last week: Children can grow 7 sizes in their first 2 years on Earth. This contributes towards 183 million items of outgrown & unused childrenswear being hidden in homes across the…

Tom Hanks can end his emails with T. Hanks and it’d work as both a sign-off and signature.

2,884 kcal per day is the global average food supply per person. While it’s enough for everyone, you have to factor in that humans are irrational and tribal – one country throws tons in the trash while another struggles.

Our World in Data

55% of the world population live in urban areas. In 1960 it was 34%. Source. The UN projects that the global population will be 10.8 billion by 2100. By this time, the population growth rate will have slowed to near…