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Wikipedia and Hayekian Philosophy: The Knowledge Problem

July 14, 2018 /in Articles

Wikipedia has become a staple in each of our lives. No matter what information we may be in search of, Wikipedia either provides what we are looking for or offers a great launching off point to further research. And while most of us routinely use the site to aid us on our quest for knowledge, few know that the site was born out of a deep respect for the work of economist, F.A. Hayek.

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Why Are Scientists So Often Wrong? Publishing Manipulated Results from Unreplicable Experiments Is A Big Part Of The Problem.

September 26, 2020 /in Articles

Fantastic scientific results, either the kind blasted across headlines or those which gradually make it into public awareness, are often so poorly made that the results don’t hold up; they don’t capture anything real about the world. The problem is the betrayal of scientific ideals by the way scientists do research in practice.

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Weekend Long Read:Great Innovations Come From The Urgent Problems Of War And Depressions. Which Could Be The Good News About 2020.

August 23, 2020 /in Articles

All we know is that the most important changes of the last 100 years have taken place during upheavals. And we’re currently in the biggest upheaval of the last 100 years. We know that an irony of technology is that economies often make their greatest leaps forward when the outlook is bleakest. It might be one of the only silver linings of 2020.

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Poetic Justice Warrior Douglas Engelbart Bootstraps Individual Production to Collective Knowledge

April 22, 2020 /in Articles

The Mother of All Demos was presented by Douglas Engelbart 52 years ago in San Francisco. Its goal was to show how technology could augment the capabilities of the human mind. For the first time in the history, the windows graphic user interface, hypertext, display monitor, word processing, file linking, keyboard and mouse were on display.

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Individualism Offers New Solutions To Hitherto Intractable Problems, Including Homelessness.

February 10, 2020 /in Articles

Think of this type of local knowledge and interaction as generating countless small moments of accountability instead of a blanket rule. Clients aren’t being offered unlimited help; they’re people helped by other people who can react both socially and with actual aid in real-time.

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What The Left Calls Social Problems Are Not Social And Not A Problem.

October 14, 2019 /in Articles

Framing the phenomenon as a problem implies that there is a solution, and that there is something that can and should be done. It may well be a predicament — as indeed growing older at the personal level is. If you think of it as a predicament rather than as a problem, then you will not search for solutions but rather for ways of managing it and making the best of it.

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No Vision Insurance? No Problem! Tech Is Making Eye Care Cheaper and More Accessible

October 13, 2018 /in Articles

Digital eye exams offered through companies like Opternative and subscription-based services like Hubble are helping to decentralize vision coverage, making it more affordable and accessible to everyone, whether they have insurance or not.

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Talented Entrepreneurs Like Jeff Bezos Are Shrinking Inequality Of Lifestyles, Which The New York Times Refuses To Acknowledge.

October 11, 2018 /in Articles, News

Rising inequality in terms of wealth is a sign of shrinking lifestyle inequality between the rich and poor. Think about it. Entrepreneurs generally amass great wealth by virtue of mass-producing the goods and services previously only enjoyed by the rich.

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Struggling To Innovate? Short Of Problem-Solving Ideas? Check Your Metaphor.

November 1, 2017 /in Articles

Super-connecting is the new metaphor of entrepreneurship. The entrepreneur today is an orchestrator, a super-connector of knowledge, technology, collaborators and capital. All of these inputs are available in real time as a result of today’s technologies.

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The Hashtag and Hayek’s Use of Knowledge in Society

September 30, 2017 /in Articles

Last month the world celebrated the birthday of the hashtag. As a writer, I am always looking for interesting and current topics to tackle. But this particular topic seemed completely insignificant to me. The symbol itself has existed for years. Why should I care about the anniversary of its repurposed use? But upon further investigation, […]

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