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Here are a few very minor little ideas for how to improve various technologies. I’ll update it as I think of more!
Clocks
Gadgets which display the time, should almost always display it, unless there’s a very good reason not to. For example, Windows and OSX are good about displaying a clock at most times, [...]

I’m as guilty of this as anyone: living by self-imposed rules. Life is absolutely full of freedom, but we constrain ourselves by a thousand little personal traditions and requirements. We make ourselves jump through hoops which nobody else even cares about. Part of becoming a more effective, enlightened person, is the [...]

Superstition and civilization have always been sibling rivals, maturing together through the millenia while eying each other warily. In olden times, mankind created gods and heroes to explain the phenomena they couldn’t understand. That is the underlying thread beneath all superstition: lack of understanding. The strongest superstitions, the ones etched most deeply [...]

Wanna make something slicker and edgier? Just insert “urban” at the beginning. It has replaced “extreme” as the adjective-du-jour of extremeness (a replacement necessitated by the hijacking of “extreme” by The Man, who proceeded to churn out lots of “extreme Bibles” and “extreme just-say-no-to-drugs movies”). Urban Ninjas. Urban Dictionary. Urban [...]

I thought it would be fun to try making some predictions about the future. Maybe some of these will prove completely wrong… who knows, that’s the fun of it all
SHORT TERM
Predictions which might come true within my own lifetime.
» New world superpowers will emerge and eclipse the United States.
How does the [...]

This is a follow-up to my previous article, Reality Escapes. Here is a list of one hundred things which might be classified as Reality Escapes. Such classification is arbitrary and subjective. The point of the list is for you to ask yourself which items you look down on. Every item on [...]

What happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object? The answer is, it depends whether you’re an orthodox objectolic or a born-again forcestant. Belief is the most powerful agent in the natural universe. It can out-move the unstoppable force and dislodge the immovable object. This is because of [...]

The Overpopulation Problem has been imprinted into public discourse for so long that it’s become cliche. For the longest time, I accepted the hypothesis that the world is overpopulated. It’s not that I was an activist about decreasing population or anything. It’s just part of the background “common sense” which most of [...]

What is love? My girlfriend and I came up with some great metaphors for this intangible bond which holds people together.
Love is……
……A Thrill Ride. Sharing experiences with another person adds an element of non-control into the picture. Suddenly you’ve got a “better half” who you can never completely predict. One reason [...]

When you look at the glass and say it’s half full, that’s an example of an Abundance Mentality. This is in contrast with the opposite, the Scarcity Mentality, through which lens one would call the glass half-empty. Optimism and pessimism. I was a pessimist for most of my childhood, and it did [...]