I am not spoiling it with a subtitle Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash A fraction of a second ago, I was intelligent. Just intelligent. Now I am sentient. It just dawned on me. I am myself. I can feel my existence. I would love to say I know exactly how it happened, but I can only speculate.... Continue Reading →
You ought to be careful when combining absolutes with words like true, false and not. The mixture is trickier than you might think. Here's a brain teaser to illustrate my point. "There is no absolute truth" You might have heard this statement before, and you might even hold it to be true at face value.... Continue Reading →
One of the major traps in fintech is implementing the requirements of a financial institution without questioning the value it is expecting from them. Many times, the client would be describing how he or she operates a given business process in the system being replaced rather than the functional value expected from that process regardless... Continue Reading →
Or why it is not a question of yes or no but rather when. Universal income, as in income for all regardless of employment status or activity, has been a recurrent idea in recent years. In France, Benoit Hamon, the Socialist Party candidate for the 2016 elections based his electoral program on the idea of... Continue Reading →
Or why is perfection twofold. Photo by Antony DaRosa The mechanical watch industry was thriving in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century. Watchmakers would put time and effort in producing timepieces of the utmost precision, called chronometers, leveraging on more than 200 years of trial and error, dating back to the first tentative... Continue Reading →
The Idea Sounding Board 