The Vault of the Future

The first “Matrix” movie was the culmination of the hacker’s culture of ’90s as a movie. That was the first decade when both computers and online access began to work well enough for the general public, hence the hacker culture and mass culture had a lot of overlap. People watching the first Matrix experienced an […]

Today we going to talk about Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics! I’m surprised that many smart people still think that quantum mechanics requires some sort of “observers” and assign mystical significance to these “observers”. As if Universe “needs” observers for QM to work. The universe is far more elegant, symmetric and scale-free and doesn’t require any […]

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In less than three days “No Russian” received over 100,000 views. It was translated into Russian, Ukrainian, Estonian & Romanian, covered by Bloomberg and American Conservative. The traffic was dominated by Facebook and Twitter. Early leads from usual suspects (Hacker News, Reddit) within hours became a rounding error. Social media was sending a torrent of […]

Many people in Silicon Valley inquired over the years why I was not coming back to Russia often (I visited once in two decades) or why I'm not spending much time helping Russian startups. I usually answered these questions in generalities while keeping my grim thoughts and predictions to myself. The events of the past few days, unfortunately, show that the worst predictions I feared all these years did come true. The nightmare scenario is now unfolding as we speak, and Russia position in the world is now altered forever.

Many people in Silicon Valley inquired over the years why I was not coming back to Russia often (I visited once in two decades) or why I'm not spending much time helping Russian startups. I usually answered these questions in generalities while keeping my grim thoughts and predictions to myself. The events of the past few days, unfortunately, show that the worst predictions I feared all these years did come true. The nightmare scenario is now unfolding as we speak, and Russia position in the world is now altered forever.

P90X is a home fitness program developed by Tony Horton & Beachbody. P90X demonstrates a brilliant social design that is so successful that many Silicon Valley startups would envy it even today, a full decade after P90X launch.

Every year a few thousand startups are incubated in Silicon Valley. Few of them will succeed; the rest will decay or outright fail. Yet there always seems to be room for one more billion-dollar company. Besides appearing seemingly out of nowhere, the most radically successful startups are also the most unpredictable ones. What force seems […]

This is mathematical section of the parent essay Gödel Incompleteness for Startups Gödel Numbering A formal system is just a collection of axioms and rules. Just like we did before we can record axioms in plain English like “Number 0 exists”. Can we associate axioms and rules with natural numbers? As you know everything you […]