Opinions, News And Facts
An opinion is a personal belief about something. It's just a point of view, at a certain moment in time, coming from a certain person, about a specific situation. News is a group of information on a certain topic, which…
Writing Fiction – New Challenge, New Book
It's been a while since I wrote anything on this blog. Sometimes, life tends to happen "outside" and not everything that unfolds is meant to be logged, written about or signaled to the world. That's how it was for the…
The “Happy Tourist Bias” And Why This Might Be Good For You
Working from coffee shops has its perks. I've been doing it for more than 10 years now (before it was cool and even before Starbucks thought to brand their coffee shops as "the third space" - the one you use…
Storing Blockchain Data In Synthetic DNA – A Disturbingly Possible Utopia
Blockchains have been around for about 10 years, in the form that we know today - namely cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum or Steem. Although they’re part of our lives for a relatively short amount of time, as they are growing…
Perceived Value
There is no intrinsic value of anything. The value that we attach to things, situations, beings or processes is all subjective. (In order to make this clear, I used the term "perceived value", instead of "subjective value", which may be…
The Population Of Actors
The population of actors in our formula can be defined -at the simplest level - by "a group of persons who can engage in interactions". The Need And The Clinging Traditionally, the reason for interaction was defined, in the context…
The Continuum Of Interaction
Money doesn’t exist in and by itself, isolated from anything else, self-sufficient and immutable. It’s a mental construct, but one closely related to another mental construct: time. In order to get a better understanding of money, we need to stop…
Optimizing Work From Coffee Shops – A Primer
As a digital nomad, I always prefer to work from a coffee shop, rather than from a coworking space. I don't have anything against working from coworking spaces, to be honest, and, sometimes, I go test a new space or…
Money – A Formula for Perceived Value, Reward and Punishment
We will start our journey towards a new definition and understanding of money by claiming that money is just perceived value of the interactions of a given population of actors. A more formal definition will follow soon, but for now…
Money Doesn’t Exist
There is no physical money. It’s a mental construct, a controlled hallucination shared by almost the entire population of the globe. There’s no physical object which, by itself, can have an intrinsic, exchangeable value. Even if we can identify “precious”…
Fallas – The Purifying Effect Of Loud Noises
The decision to leave Romania for another country was taken during 2017. I just knew that I had to leave. But the actual process materialized at the end of 2018. Partially because there were quite a few loose ends that…