Yes, the Meaning of Life = 42 In close collaboration with my AI friend Grok, I finally figured out why “42” is the shortest answer to the question of what the meaning of life is. I found out about galactic years. The years it takes to make one full circle around our galaxy, like Earth […]
We live only about 80 years after the end of WWII. In a generation of people who have no sense, what such a war actually means. Moreover, there is no interest in studying how it started and its terrible ending. And then, realizing that talking about it would be possible, but not good. Worst, making […]
This is also about civil courage, which too many lack. Six years ago, I wrote about 2019 as an ‘interesting year to come‘. Little did I know what was really coming. I just had this feeling. Abusing or Defending Political Power The 333 rule addresses social and political human group behavior. It was derived from the […]
As an Entrepreneur, I have this gifted ability to focus. After retiring in 2008, having time to sail, and spending time with startups, I also used to update my blog here and there. That changed in 2020 when I had this epiphany about how our brain composes ideas. I didn’t know what to expect – […]
You have an idea and want to build a startup but don’t know how to make it take off. I guess this is my best summary without telling you step-by-step. Step by step is a good technique to teach workers to do an excellent and repeatable task. A terrible help for entrepreneurs. Wanting to […]
Somebody asked me an interesting question on Quora, and I thought I share my answer here: QUESTION: Could business be on the precipice of an automation explosion? Precipice? No. Automation is on a “normal” exponential growth. INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION The degree of Industrial automation (meaning production) in Europe and several Asian countries is at over 80% […]
Neben unserem Haus ist ein Kindergarten. Da wird geschrien gestürzt, gemalt, dummes Zeig gemacht. Dann geen sie zur Schule da wird ruhing gesessen, manmuss aufpassen und tun was Lehrer sagen. Später im Gymnasium oder wie auch immer es heute heisst muss viel gelernt werden. bis es einem zum Hals rauss hängt. Learn & Repeat ist […]
This was an interesting Question on Quora: Do entrepreneurs really “create wealth”? The money they earn already exists beforehand and would have gone to other pockets. That’s not “wealth creation” but “wealth changing hands” Yes, entrepreneurs do create wealth. In fact, entrepreneurs are the group that actually creates wealth in its truest sense. Wealth is created […]
Since long time a car that I really like Yes, it is a luxury car. Yet, there is nothing wrong with it. It’s an all electric car with a great deal of environmentally friendly materials. If the next generation entrepreneurs like this car as the trophy for building millions of jobs in emerging and developing […]
It will become an interesting year in very many ways. I feel there are three challenges worth mentioning for 2019 * Intensifying economic challenges across the world * Stress factor technological challenges rising * Socio-Political challenges to deal with the global development Let me shed some light on those challenges. Intensifying economic challenges across the […]
Advanced Entrepreneurship OK, you’ve had an idea, you filled in your business model canvas template, wrote a business plan using other templates, you experimented with all kinds of ideas and ways to run your startup. You probably pivoted many times and did everything you learned at school. Great. Now trough all this away and start […]
The recent cryptocurrency development had put a serious dent in the crypto space. The bubble is clearly burst — very clearly. Speculative investors took quite a hit and the money flow from unknown and possibly dubious sources is drying out. What looks like a disaster to some is a very welcome clearance to others. I’m a Crypto […]
Technological – Business – Societal – Impact Development Timeline The era of AMs – Autonomous Machines 2020 – 2025 We will see a rising number of products mainly chat bots, entering our day to day world. At the same time the work on “General AI” will be intensified and we are getting better and better results – […]
In my work with artificial intelligence, thinking about the borderline between a perfect algorithm to perform a perfect action and the superiority over the human brain, I reached an area that made me think about the concept of perfection. Hyper smart applets In 1996 we were trying to design hyper-smart applets (applets was concept in […]
I see this question popping up over and over again. At present it may look like Autonomous Machines will carry on the technological development and we sit and watch. Well – here is my thinking: In 1980 the end of technology was predicted I remember a day where my boss said “I think with the […]
I just saw an interesting video on YouTube that helped me understand quantum computing – at least it is now easier to pretend I know :). Talia Gershorn from IBM explained Quantum Computing in a new and very powerful way. This post is actually a comment for Talia but I thought it might be interesting to see […]