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Doomsday: the incentive perspective – The Daily PPILL #289

Doomsday: the incentive perspective – The Daily PPILL #289

Alright. So a couple of days ago I got a little railed up and got carried away. I think that I did capture what I intuitively felt, my gut feeling. The analysis came shortly after the blog post was already published. This is not uncommon in me, to let my intuition...
Agency – The Daily PPILL #274

Agency – The Daily PPILL #274

To change behavior, there must be a certain degree of agency. If there is no influence in the outcome, there is no point to change. The residents of my current city are great. Rugged, hard working and mostly respectful of their fellow human beings. But when you move...
Virtually Accepted – The Daily PPILL #271

Virtually Accepted – The Daily PPILL #271

Some innovations that are appearing over the horizon look to most us someway weird. We go “no way”. We presume they are fads and we’ll never use them. It always have been like that. Just a few years ago, the answer that met some of these innovations went something...
Storing energy in cryptocurrency – The Daily PPILL #269

Storing energy in cryptocurrency – The Daily PPILL #269

You may have already heard about the large amounts of energy that Bitcoin miners utilize in the process of working on the blockchain and spitting out another coin, or “mining” it. Recently, I was introduced to an ingenious way of using this for stabilizing...
A ride to the airport – The Daily PPILL #263

A ride to the airport – The Daily PPILL #263

Whenever the cost is not significant, I behave like an early adopter. That’s why I started using LinkedIn in 2002, and I continue to check out whatever tech innovation shows up that I can check out for a nominal fee, or for free. So when I was for a few days in...