Resumes are ripe for disruption. Job candidates have increasingly non-linear career trajectories, and need more dynamic means of packaging and representing their value to hirers. As they stand today, resumes are designed for clean rendering of credentials: job history, education, etc. The rule followers. In-person interviews are the primary means of revealing information with regard to character and mind, but this doesn’t scale. And, how many resumes of potentially brilliant candidates are glossed over because Read More

Only 10% of traders are profitable.  What drives the remaining 90%? Humans are evolved to think they posses near magical agency and insight. From thinking “this [bad thing] will never happen to me” to the feeling of possessing privileged knowledge relative to everyone else, we are all wired with this self-propelling bias. It’s what gives us the courage to play the game in the first place.   On a long enough timescale, the house always Read More

As we become increasingly entrenched in the digital age, positive-sum incentives will slowly eat away at zero-sum incentives for both individuals and markets alike, leading to an explosion of innovation and unprecedented abundance. In game theory, a positive-sum game benefits all parties involved, and resources are increased¹. As humans become increasingly digital and exponential technologies accelerate, society will gain more meaning in work (economic demand will require more creativity) and a higher standard of living Read More

Most service businesses can only be scaled via labor leverage. Labor leverage comes with varying frictional costs that ultimately dilutes one’s end product. The jig is almost up for *some* service businesses employing huge fleets of employees; the internet has emboldened these very employees to branch off and operate as their own sovereign nodes. While the individual’s new upstart results in higher pay almost immediately, he faces the same scaling issues that the archaic labor Read More

We hear truisms, advice, inspirational quotes. True learning, however, is felt, not heard. The felt experience of a new novelty-download is often punctuated by a cocktail of feel-good neurochemicals such as norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin and anandamide. I call this somatic novelty (somatic referring to the body). It is when we feel with the entirety of our being that something is true, and rivetingly so. It is when new patterns materialize: once disparate ideas dance synchronously, Read More