Here I make yet another connection from postmodern philosophy to business strategy. This is from Deleuze’s early work, Difference & Repetition in which he gathers ideas made by previous thinkers and notices a theme of repetition deeply ingrained in the nature of human enterprises. …

Today is a morning like any other Saturday morning, but I find myself reflecting on the memories of my grandfather who passed away a decade ago. My grandfather was a learned man with progressive ideas, he went to university at a time where only one university existed in Korea. He…

A practical understanding of postmodernist problems with language and a possible solution, with an application to personal branding. — In postmodern philosophy, one thing I was learning about was how words are losing meaning. I think it was Baudrillard saying that words are supposed to be symbols that represent real things in the world, but in the modern world, things have become more abstract. So symbols are being exchanged…

It is not the oath that makes us believe a man, but the man the oath. — Aeschylus I’ve never wanted to talk about it before, even though it’s a topic I’m constantly thinking about, because I was scared people would think it’s corny or fake, that I was arrogant…

In this piece I explore the role of the Roman Empire in our lives. These thoughts build on top of a theory of civilization described by Yuval Noah Harari in Sapiens. In his theory, throughout history there has been a common pattern of one strongest empire conquering disparate warring tribes…

When I was at UofT, I was in a Jordan Peterson class and nothing he said made any sense, he was saying some of the most bizarre things I had ever heard. I believe I got a D on his exam in Personality Psychology. Years later I was watching his…

Introduction to game theory applications for smart contract design Mechanism design is a field of economics that starts with the required outcomes and engineers the rules of the game or system that will produce the desired outcome. This means mechanism design will architect for a scenario to meet certain criteria…