I have gone through a number of sports hobbies through the years – I spent several years rock climbing, a couple of years doing Crossfit, a couple of years playing flag football. I enjoy finding fun activities instead of doing a mundane gym workout.
My newest sport is golf. I just started a couple of months ago, but try to get some practice in most days.… read more “Business & Golf”
Summer is coming to an end. It was quite the adventure this year. I started it out with a severe knee injury on June 2nd, got out of the hospital June 16th, struggled around home till the beginning of July, got stronger through July, much strong in August, and am almost back to full strength now at the beginning of September.… read more “Summers End”
Slowly, oh so slowly, I am getting back in shape. Today I ran a 9:27 mile for the first time since my injury. My goal is to get to under a 7:00 mile by the end of the year… a 6:00 mile would make me shout for joy. I also just started doing circuit training (pushups, pullups, situps, shoulder stuff).… read more “My Body Is Returning”
I am supposed to do some surfing today with my friend Ryan. I am not a big fan of surfing as I can’t stand up on the board and it kind of makes me feel motion sick. I’d rather play golf.
We have gigantic monopolies like Amazon because patent law prevents fair competition. Amazon for example has patented silly things like one click checkout. Then they sued all competition using it.
We need to fight back against the slow twisting of our American system. The middle class and social mobility are being eliminated. This is happening through a variety of methods that all reduce competition and innovation.
The patent system prevents lower cost or better feature competitors from entering markets and prevents entrepreneurship.
The American Medical Association prevents new doctors and new business models from entering the market, keeping prices and revenues high for current doctors.… read more “System Manipulation”
Every so often I question my core goals in life and what I should focus on. Should I spend my best hours working on my business? Programming? Chess? Golf? Pleasure? Having kids? Family? Advancing science?
Let’s have a look at each:
I have always deeply enjoyed building systems and hacking them, both in real life and in play.
Plenty of people are now following the trend of attacking capitalism.
There are some real abuses of capitalism happening now – due to the fact that we tax income instead of wealth and grant monopolies via our patent system (which should be abolished).
Even with these abuses though, would you want to live under any other nations system?… read more “Capitalism”