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Yes, opportunity often doesn't knock once or twice, but not at all.  It just floats by quietly. Be alert! Be aware! And don't wait for that knock! Almost everyday, something is there begging your attention, but not making much noise. Indeed, once you start looking, there is so much the problem becomes is one of selection.

It is only a matter of time before the next cell phone innovation will be nicknamed “The Billboard,” so big they are becoming. I would not be surprised if almost every ancient coin (i.e. older than a century) is counterfeit. With modern metallurgy, it is too easy to duplicate old coins, right down to the molecular composition.   On recent medicare for all proposals, once the insurance companies are government-consumed, the hospitals will be next. Just because you can’t see it, that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

Morality is old. Morality is new.  It has become the new tool to override sloppiness, laziness, and flat out error.  Morality is hot, worn as a cloak to cover emotion. It is used as substitutes for bad data and for the popular will.  It is used as justification for control. Beware of those perched upon the high branches of the morality tree. If the constitution is a “living” document, then who can change it?   Currently, it is a group of judges not representing any electoral constituency. Thus, law is changed without representation. Intransigence affects process. Under intransigence we have this: “What you want, I don’t want.”    Intransigence is a consequence of polarity. An old joke among the sanitation workers is that you get $12/hr plus all you can eat.  This does not imply you get your news feed from the same source. 

1. Usually the revolution  is antipodal, with two heads, faces, and modalities - like much of everything else. 2. For much of what we think we control, we are merely servants. 3. Often, the seat of government is called a swamp , a dark place with greedy and hungry  creatures.      What would be worse is if it was called a circus , a bright place with distractions and illusions, with clowns, high flyers, trained beasts, and prancing ponies.

The black soldier fly maggot is voracious and really active.   The issue at hand is how thousands of them eat, say a piece of fruit. An important fact about our friends is they only eat for about five minutes and then “relax.”   But if they are still near the food, they will block other maggots from eating.   So for all to feed, they (self) organize.   This is not to say they are intelligent, no more so than the average undergrad.   They organize into a vortex of flow where the hungrier maggots come from below toward the food supply pushing the relaxed maggots up (and over the top).   The result is a vortex-like flow, sort of like a fountain or volcano. View from Below This is an example of dynamics, created by self-organized behavior, that feeds all.   The maggots do this (a) without a plan, and (b) without a leader.   One of the problems in understanding self-organization is to find the driver.   In this case, it is hunge

More and more download the traditional “Mouth App,” where you apply your mouth to every event. Content is irrelevant.  Hollywood types and TV News commentators are big users. ---------------- Haunting you every day are the Done twins, Coulda and Shoulda .  They create regret and remorse, but are often resolved calling on their brother, Woulda . ---------------- It seems the Vatican’s true view of child sexual abuse by priests is that it’s a clerical fringe benefit. You know, room, board, and boys.  And now apparently,  nuns are on the menu. ---------------- There are those who pretend and those who pretend to pretend.  Such as to "greatness." ---------------- What does a college do when applicants have low standardized test scores (e.g. ACT, SAT)?  Eliminate the requirement.  Dress it up in high-minded reasons pertaining to diversity and economics, showing how open-minded you are. Welcome Creighton University in Nebraska, the latest joining a number of ot

A story of the future, in four chapters Chapter 1 . It seems that Artificial Intelligence (AI), with amazing data analysis capacities and algorithms, is already making corporate decisions.  Certainly true for Wall Street with algorithmic trading, self-driving cars, algorithmic medical diagnosis.   Great, I think.   Chapter 2 . But then competitors will also use AI to determine what decisions will be made to make counter decisions. Chapter 3 . Such procedures can regress indefinitely and well beyond the reach of human understanding. Not so great, I think! Chapter 4 . Already, algorithms are adaptive, essentially rewriting themselves. Algorithms will be voted seats on the Board of Directors. Or else! By 2023, we will have the first algorithmic corporate CIO*. By 2025, the first COO. By 2030, the first CEO. End of Story. *Chief Information Officer

First, note these days it seems the quality in politicians is much diminished.   Almost a laugh it is except these folks are running the place or running the opposition.   In modern politics, you must never change your mind or apologize. Doing either is not unlike putting “blood into shark-infested waters.”    If you do, you’re in deep trouble, and you know it. So what can you do? What do you see and hear?   There are four, newly five, accepted excuses. a.   Double down – reaffirm what you said no matter how stupid it was. b. Be unapologetic – stand your ground showing strength not weakness. c. Claim your remarks were taken out of context – a favorite for VIP politicians. d. Deny all – a tenuous move where you truly hope no further evidence pops up. e. Credit your moral correctness – while your statement erred only a “little.”* * Relatively recent