In the book Speaker for the Dead, there was an underdeveloped but smart alien species called Pequeninos, divided into tribes. Each tribe had been fighting other tribes for as long as they remembered. They measured their success by comparing themselves… Read More ›
Inspiring ideas
Decision Making in a Crisis
Jocko Willink, retired US Navy Seal and best-selling author, advises the following to handle a crisis: Relax. Take a breath. Detach. Don’t get emotional. There is hope. Look around. Find the biggest problem. Solve it or, at least, make the… Read More ›
OKR.Earth: Climate Objectives and Key Results
As I described in a previous post, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a goal-setting system which creates alignment within an organisation. In this post, I’ll describe an idea: OKR.Earth, a global repository of OKRs. This repository would allow organisations… Read More ›
2-step votings for liquid and augmented democracy
In order to improve democracy, there are many ideas of how to combine direct and representative democracy (liquid democracy) and even, recently, augmented democracy using AI. However, it’s difficult to experiment with software which must guarantee that the votes are… Read More ›
Will countries, citizens or cities lead the way this century?
Noah Yuval Harari explains that, historically, bigger political entities allowed us to tackle new challenges. For example, regions and rulers couldn’t often avoid frequent devastating floods and droughts until they joined under a single political entity and started to create… Read More ›
Would you like to be paid to study?
Instead of a universal basic income, Andrew Ng and Kai-Fu Lee support paying people to study. However, besides governments, could private companies pay people to study? Lambda School [1] in the US already offers online tuition to students who only… Read More ›
Shall I guess?
In the last years, I’ve refrained from giving my opinion about many issues I don’t know enough or whenever I can not do much about it. Not only didn’t I share my views with others, but I avoided to spend… Read More ›
Hector Perez Arenas 