The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Life in a Networked Age Here’s some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter. To access it, let’s make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate. A technological substrate is the family of related technologies that we rely upon. In the …
By John Robb I used to have a boss that said “if you ever wanted to find out the best way to get a job on a farm done, give it to a lazy person first.” While this seems counter-intuitive, it actually makes sense. The lazy person will find the way to do the job …
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How Your Home Can Produce MORE With Less When I walk through my home and around my yard, I’m constantly looking for ways to do more with the space I have available. More? No, I’m not talking about finding ways to store more stuff by stacking and packing it in every nook and cranny. Instead, …
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Farming is Becoming a Service. Here’s How to Benefit From It By John Robb Farming is increasingly becoming a service. The reasons for this are simple. People want the freshness, quality, and meaning they get from buying local food from people they know. It’s also great for the farmer, since it enables them to directly …
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What a Dronet (a more compressed spelling?) can leverage Arg. Got distracted by this. Ok, let me peel back the next layer of the onion. An open drone network can leverage: a) 3D transportation uses the “big sky theory.” Lots of space. Very few obstacles. Compare that to 2D transpo on the ground — …
DRONENET The next BIG thing. Here’s the next BIG thing. Something that has the potential to be as big as the Internet. It’s one of those ideas that hits you like a ton of bricks once you figure it out. Given the rise in the entrepreneurial backchatter I’m getting on it, I supect it’s going …
Natural Gas leaks Now this is disturbing. The natural gas pipeline system that supplies 65 million customers in the US is not only old, it’s poorly maintained. Some of the pipes in the Boston area are over a century old and made with cast iron or (even) wood. The problem is that a financially strapped …
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