A look at the kind of things you have to do to be good at vs the kinds of things you can know once and always be able to do. This comparison is applied to the idea of transformative business, which is different than territory business, and could be the next wave of value and true wealth.

Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html

A look at the sterilization goal of American culture in our food and our avoidence of drama. Also our fascination with drama in entertainment. I do dive into my history of experiencing suicidal behaviour, and a puzzling aspect of capitalism that I have no solution for.

If you are feeling like you might harm yourself, please go to the nearest emergency room or call a crisis hotline. If your in the US the Suicide and Crisis Hotline can be reached if you dial 988 or visit https://988lifeline.org. Even if you don't believe your situation is temporary, I believe in life more than enough for both of us <3.

Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html

How the economy of banking, business culture, and recognizing kindness and decency can put us back on track. I think we are only a few degrees off, but it's been off for a long enough time that it looks more massive of a problem than it is.

In an effort to be more inspiring, supportive, and meaningful. I'm focusing on three areas that I believe would make our society one that we all love to live in. Having taken a month long invoulentary break from this podcast, casued by being busy starting a new day-job loosing the microphone I used to record, I am finally organizing my thoughts into what I hope is a reset.

Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html

In the age of pillaging and stealing, having a healthy economy to steal from was a requirement. Now the requirement is the talent to transform and innovate. I talk a lot about personal experience and why I have compassion and also what is wrong with the idea of status driving so much of our economy.

Note: The second band that I forgot to mention who released a great able a decade after the single they were known for is Three Days Grace. You may now them from the song I Hate Everything About You.

Links:

What Happend Last Decade - Matt Arnold of Spark Consulting (The Blink 182 reference): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGisU8e7jv8

Blink 182 - Black Rain (2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHQ_xMJ6SdQ

Three Days Grace - I Am Machine (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zx6RXGNISk

Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html

Unpacking what of a whole human could grow at work personally to grow a business and how effort-intensive leisure activities may be a window into a better work experience. I talk about the difference between proffesionalism and a hobbyist. I also make fun of what people think money can buy: the ability to treat people however you want to. And conclude that work life-balance is not up for debate. If you think it is: next time your phone has a low battery give it a pep talk instead of a phone charger!

Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html

This week I go over the parts of Agile development that I miss, in an effort to reframe what has happened with my soloprenuer journey over the last two and a half years. The title is modeled on a book by Douglas Crawford titled JavaScript the Good Parts.

I also go into why LLM based AI may be the wrong answer to the right question: how to make programming more responsive, and how to make user interfaces smoother. My answer is that visual scripting, such as what is found in game engines or 3D modeling and rendering software, is a better option to delivering high quality software than the impersonation aspects of LLM AI.

Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html

Jav joins me today as a special guest! Our discussion winds from idating on society setups through a role playing game that he has run through a few groups for two year long games at times. And our speculation on the reason small online projects, sports teams, and marriages all share the same need to work on a more perfect union.

A recent debate about the definition of genocide resulted in some advice that was very helpful to me from Jav last week. We talk about how defining what it means to destroy a group of people sheds light on the meaning of humans in society.

Links:

Anarchists Without Borders (bluesky): https://bsky.app/profile/anarchswoborders.bsky.social

Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html

Two conventions that have overstayed their welcome: being first as a means of business value, and education through memorization. I reflect these insights through two events from 100 and 200 years ago. I also make a case for what could be done differently, by treating the concept of "first" as the begining of the journey not the goal, and using existing material as the jump-off point for investigation instead of the destination.

Somewhere in these topics I also cast dought on the accuracy of factial-recognition and talk a little bit about why, from a computer science perspective.

Correction: The ITBS tests predate the company I mentioned, Pearson was an education company in the Cedar Rapids area, but ITBS tests started in 1939 from the University of Iowa:

https://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/2701/standardized-testing-begins-iowa

Logical Falicies Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYwwNhLvQQI

Rothschild Pump and Dump of 1815:

https://www.artometrics.com/rothschild-the-bankers-who-beat-napoleon/

Differential Equations Paper:

https://tomrocksmaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/the-differing-impacts-of-differential-equations-on-the-economy.pdf

Efficient Market Hypothesis:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientmarkethypothesis.asp

Overly-confident Facial Recognition Article:

https://www.securityindustry.org/2022/07/23/what-science-really-says-about-facial-recognition-accuracy-and-bias-concerns/

Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html

The age-old question of the chicken or the egg... contextually relevant to both job-hunting, basic operational economics, and the question that keeps me pondering: how do we get the experience we need to get the jobs that need that experience?

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The next forest is a concept about how to re-build the vibrant economic and social society that we want after the world burns down.

I talk about my perspective on what has caused this. A lack of modernization as we moved from a manufacturing economy to a services economy. Our memorization based education system has re-inforced the wrong skills, and our delegated decision structure in business culture has created a large mismatch between effective work and company functions. What we are seeing are ruptures not cracks.

The episode is inspired by the permaculture strategies I studied in the 90's. I talk about co-operative biological systems in forests and how that may provide a model for rebuilding our economy.

Note: I recorded this with the wrong microphone, it used my computer's microphone instead of the headset. Upon review, I liked the content enough to publish it, but you'll notice a bit of background sounds and a difference from the other episodes.

Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html