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The Job Reckoning - Do Useless Jobs Have any Hope Now?

2 May 2026 4 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

The AI paradigm in the job markets has fundamentally disrupted the labor environment going forward. Whether implemented or not, every employer and every worker is now thinking in the back of their head, "How would AI do this and what does it mean for...

What Exactly Would Be an "Economic Collapse" in the U.S.?

16 Apr 2026 8 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

The media has been throwing around the term of "economic collapse" quite a bit the last two weeks, with most of the articles being clickbait that end up providing nothing in terms of content. They might resurrect in a sentence or two the 1929 Great D...

The Tech City Concept - a Beer Fart or Something Real?

11 Dec 2025 4 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

I first caught the topic of “tech cities” on one of those late night jaunts through YouTube stuff, the kind of mindless search down the rabbit hole where you say to yourself, “Who watches this conspiracy crap and generates ad money for these people?!...

Futureproof: 9 Tips for Boondoggling Humans in the Age of Automation

22 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Boondoggle: a wasteful or impractical project or activity, often involving graft — Merriam-Webster Dictionary Tonight, I started Reading "Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation", as part of my reading up on AI. (It's recommended r...

Defining Financial Independence

25 Sep 2025 2 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

When I was a young teenager, I told my dad I was thinking about what I wanted growing up, and I was pretty sure I didn't want to be just another paycheck chaser. I wanted to be financially independent. My father laughed in response; he then told me a...

Starting Over in a Wasteland

30 May 2025 4 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

For those who know me or tracked stuff in my prior articles, you'll remember that I became another professional statistic in the death march AI has caused over multiple industries. That was about a year and two months ago when I finally threw in the...

Exercising, Earning and Learning 4 NOV 2023

4 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

    During my treadmill workout today - and earning multiple tokens, I watched the video "What Future Humans, Cities and Bodies Will Look Like" on YouTube. This fascinating video is narrated by one of my favorite modern physicists, Michio Kaku, and...

Transhumanism and the Advent of Conscious Evolution

8 Oct 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Don Hartig

Since the first form of life emerged from the cosmic soup of protoplasm that had agglomerated to form our planet, evolution has been an intrinsic and continuous element of organic life. However, it is only now that we are, for the first time, faced...

The Next Wave of Globalization: Age of Clicks

25 Apr 2021 9 minute read 2 comments Mazigh

It is no exaggeration to say that the pandemic has sent a global shock-waves, turning people’s lives upside-down in terms of how they live and work. It has made 2020 a turning point for how people operate, delivering a packaged of unprecedented chall...

Akon City : just like SimCity but for billionaires!

22 Jun 2020 4 minute read 4 comments PVM

When I was little I enjoyed playing SimCity and turn-base-strategy games such as Heroes of Might and Magic, Disciples, etc. Was really entertaining to build your own city, or to build you castle, with towers, turrets, markets and obviously a tavern w...