This post is the philosophy of a thing It’s incomplete, because it’s incomplete It’s chapterize’d so you can get where you’re going quickly This is Part 1. Part two is here: ON BEING GREAT. SALES. AND YOU. PART 2. COLD CALL Selling you to you In our day to day interactions we are defining…

You’re about to become incredibly smart, wise, you’ll really really like yourself and you’ll wake up tomorrow with new kitchen skills. Let’s begin… “Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately” Henry Kissinger Year-to-date, the U.S. goods deficit with China is at $199b, down 10.2% from the same time last year. In August 2019, Trump implementation of new 10% tariffs on $300b worth of imports.

This is gonna be a fun explainer about China, Trade, Huawei, IP theft & 5g. You are about to become an expert and the life of any party* — *results may vary Lets begin… U.S. goods & services trade w/China was $737b in 2018 Exports were $179b. imports were $557b. Our trade deficit with China is $378b To resolve this generational deficit, in the summer of 2018, the President Trump initiated 25% tariffs on $15 billion in imports from China. …

What if we demand that companies give users an explanation for decisions that automated systems reach What if the algorithms that calculate all those decisions have programmed themselves, and they have done it in ways that we cannot understand their behavior. — Early iterations of AI were constructed that AI ought to be reasoned according to rules and logic, making their inner workings transparent….

Let’s begin our forensics on the Chinese Social Credit Score with a crucial understanding of a different people and business operating system… — In the United States we are a fiscalized system. Whoever is the President, the oligarchs stay in office. Corporations are fused to our ‘democratic’ operating system. We idealize (at least rhetorically) the individual and are conditioned to believe that the State and Corporations exist to serve.

Whenever there is a national conversation on ‘taxes’, Warren Buffett can be found on a soapbox shouting that he would like to pay more taxes, but our system wont allow it. He is taxpayer suppressed. — Buffett plays a game of “try and catch me”…and then he faults the system for not succeeding. It is human tragedy to behold Buffett crying with two loaves of bread. He should be unburdened. If he just didn’t have that militia of lawyers, bankers, a fawning press and, as a…

Let’s begin our forensics on Chinese trade with understanding a different people and business operating system… In the United States we are a fiscalized system. Whoever is the President, Mark Zuckerberg stays in office. Corporations are fused to our ‘democratic’ operating system. …

It takes time to dismantle a company as large as Uber. I was one of the first to hit the buzzer and call “bullshit”. — You can catch up with these gems: Uber. BS earnings. Tech journalists didn’t do forensics. So I did and Will Uber be the death of Softbank And the start of it all Uber. Beginning the postmortem The whole bunch is here: adamtownsend.me/category/uber/ What if a Venture funded and wildly unprofitable…

Will a 25% tariff on imported vehicles and assorted vital components cost American consumers 45 Billion a year, 5,800 per vehicle? — “This would largely cancel out the benefits of the tax cuts”- Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers Maybe they are lying and it’s #FakeNews Let’s peel that onion (Car dealers make their money from auto financing and insurance, also some big chunk from used cars. …