By Tae-Sik
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July 6, 2025
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~6 min read
The other day, I was chatting with some friends, middle-aged, like me, with kids and businesses to juggle. I asked them what keeps them up at night as they move forward in life. Was it their children? Their business? Their health? Their personal future, or maybe their wives? What’s the biggest worry on a daily […]
By Tae-Sik
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July 6, 2025
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~6 min read
The connections we form in early life, whether with family or friends, carry a profound weight, shaped by biology, culture, and the innocence of our youth. The ties that bind us to others, through blood, friendship, or shared experience, leave an imprint that is both deep and mysterious. From the moment we enter the world, […]
By Tae-Sik
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May 29, 2022
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~11 min read
In the beginning was energy. Maybe it was matter, or something else. For simplicity, let's assume we started with energy. The universe experienced the Big Bang. Energy is converted into matter, or at least a lot of it was. Energy becomes matter. Energy is matter and matter is energy. E=MC2, So the science goes. The […]
By Milan Ji
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December 4, 2025
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~9 min read
From Blood and Soil to Contracts and Code: The Great Substitution For almost the entirety of human existence, the primary social glue was biological and territorial. Societies cohered through extended kinship networks; clans, villages, tribes, and the literal soil that contained the bones of their ancestors. In traditional societies across Asia, Europe, the Americas and […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 24, 2020
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~3 min read
You find yourself in a mysterious world. The sapiens around you are recent acquaintances. Your mission unknown. Your adventure lies ahead… Your tool is the physical capacity of your mind and body. Your mission, be the best version of yourself and complete your adventure. Imagine being dropped in a place unknown. You are given a […]
By Milan Ji
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June 22, 2026
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~9 min read
The Emotional Compression of Knowledge and Experience There is an overlooked simplicity in how life organizes itself. Across biological, cultural, and psychological systems, complexity appears to move in a single direction: toward compression. What begins as sprawling experience, distributed information, and layered understanding gradually condenses into something smaller, more immediate, and more usable. Not simpler […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 28, 2020
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~3 min read
Why Being Self-Interested is for the Collective Good. Through the collective interest of individuals. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The majority of our interactions lie with other people. Our relationship with associates, family and friends. It is rare to contend with wild animals or the forces of nature. We have […]
By Tae-Sik
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February 4, 2024
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~6 min read
Ancient explorers bravely ventured into uncharted territories with rudimentary tools and an adventurous spirit. Some were fortunate to have primitive maps inherited from previous explorers, perhaps even an indigenous guide who knew the land by heart and sight. The expedition was fraught with danger and the unknown. As the journey progressed, charts were updated, redrawn, […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 23, 2023
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~12 min read
Human beings have birthrights and entitlements, unlike any other living creature. In democratic and free market nations, we have private property rights, the right to vote, the right to life, the freedom of speech, the freedom of movement, the freedom to work and pursue happiness. We have freedoms and liberties given to us by "default". […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 17, 2020
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~2 min read
A nation is great, when its citizens are free to be their best. A nation is great when it frees its people to think freely, move freely, speak freely, and live freely. The pillars of a great nation require restraint. The foundations of a great nation is trust. Trust amongst the citizenry, its leaders, communities, […]