Dick LucasThe Lowest Hanging Fruit: Getting Rich SlowlyThe single greatest point of leverage for reaching your financial goals is simply understanding how to do it. I’m not asking you to learn…Aug 3, 2018Aug 3, 2018
Dick LucasOf Delusionists and BlochatersFor every popular phenomenon there is an equal and opposite group of detractors. This creates a positive feedback loop where the promoters…Apr 12, 2018Apr 12, 2018
Dick LucasReminiscing on the Release of Windows 7Coming off the disaster that was the release of Windows Vista with its performance and compatibility issues, there was a palpable sense in…Jan 21, 20181Jan 21, 20181
Dick LucasOnly this time it’s BlockchainIn A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton G. Malkiel writes:Jan 7, 2018Jan 7, 2018
Dick LucasHodlers, Consider ThisGiven the absolute stunning rise in the value of the cryptocurrency market, this is leaving many with the difficult decision of whether…Dec 17, 2017Dec 17, 2017
Dick LucasWe don’t Need Super Intelligence for AI to be SuperIn The Impossibility of Intelligence Explosion, François Chollet writes:Dec 5, 2017Dec 5, 2017
Dick LucasBig Tech is Eating the WorldIn 2011 Marc Andreessen declared “Software is Eating the World”. It is now evident that the software doing the eating is owned by a smaller…Dec 4, 2017Dec 4, 2017
Dick LucasSnap Inc. and the Brave New World of Internet CentralizationSnap Inc., one of the highest valued tech IPOs of the last decade, is built on cloud infrastructure from Amazon and Google. It has…Nov 1, 2017Nov 1, 2017
Dick LucasTrust to TrustlessHumanity has undergone 3 major paradigm shifts in transacting. Bartering was the first paradigm shift, allowing humans to trade one good…Oct 13, 2017Oct 13, 2017
Dick LucasFirst they Came for the Backend DevelopersParse showed us what the brave new world of serverless development looked like. Before that, using tools like AWS allowed developers to…Oct 5, 20171Oct 5, 20171