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Humanity stands about halfway between gorillas and gods. The big question is this: “Which will we incorporate into our lives?" God or gorilla things are...

Sqaure peg, meet round hole.

I was recently involved in a day of meetings with small business owners in the American Midwest. It was both encouraging and sad at the same time.

The problem with most humans is not that they think too highly of themselves: it’s that they think too little of themselves. They exhibit what G.K. Chesterton called a “weird and horrible humility.” To put it bluntly, we’ve been trained to perpetually self…

Block out the noise. There's a ton of it out there right now.

Perhaps the most vehement intellectual foolishness of our time is the demand that no culture may be judged. According to this dogma, all cultures are equally valid and very certainly none can be judged as inferior to another. That’s not just hogwash, but…

Tyler Stevens of XRG reveals how Bitcoin miners can double as heaters, slashing energy costs while decentralizing hash rate back into homes and small businesses.

In my town, the corporate throngs travel almost in unison every morning and every night, making their way from the manicured suburbs to the shiny central city and then back again. They’re not particularly bad people, you understand. In fact, many of them…

This episode unpacks how Bitcoin’s difficulty adjustment sustains a fixed supply, secures transactions, and keeps the network decentralized.

Not ideal.

Matthew Mežinskis shows why Bitcoin’s power curve points to $250K–$375K, with network adoption, not macro noise, driving its long-term path.

Once in a while in human affairs, things go right. Today we’ve issued a special report. I’ve been keeping notes on this subject for some time, but I wasn’t sure I’d ever use them. Over the past several weeks, however, so many pieces have come together, and…

Hold on to your butts.

Those of us who pursue positive change are very often frustrated. We see the necessity of change all too clearly, and we can explain how it should come about, but it never seems to happen. It’s a discouraging situation. The truth, however, is that change…

Don't get bamboozled by the technobabble.

The pairing-up of young men and women has always been a difficult process. What has appeared recently, however, is a multi-media assault upon mating per se, and that’s new. This is something we need to see clearly, and so I’ll jump right in by telling you…

(Originally published in 2015) Not too many years back, warnings of Peak Oil circulated widely, and they made me consider something a good deal more dangerous: Peak Obedience. If that concept strikes you as odd, there’s a reason: We’ve all been living inside…