By Tae-Sik
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April 4, 2020
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~2 min read
A Chinese Conspiracy Theory It's mid 2019 and Hong Kong students are pushing back against China. They are demanding representation in government, their freedom and liberty. Hong Kong is a Chinese territory, but some people of Hong Kong have had enough. They are going to march, demand rights, liking to a democratic country. They demonstrate […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 18, 2020
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~5 min read
A free society respects the individual. A free society allows for a frictionless exchange of products, services and labor. Laws are designed to be universal and add clarity and boundries in the interaction of sovereign individuals. Wages are paid to those who provide their time and services. Labor and time is paid in exchange for […]
By Tae-Sik
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July 3, 2020
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~8 min read
We associate a bureaucracy with words like stodgy, slow, formal, inefficient, procedural, wasteful, and expensive. Where do we find bureaucracies? Usually in large companies and organizations. In government offices on a local, city, county, state and federal level. There may be less obtrusive bureaucracies in smaller establishments. What do bureaucrats and bureaucracies do? They have […]
By Tae-Sik
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March 22, 2020
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~3 min read
We have smart people on both sides of the aisle. Half the pundits say the shutting down of all commerce for 30 days is justified. The other half say otherwise. I have heard people I respect say the Covid19 is not a normal flu virus and something to be taken very seriously. The other half […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 22, 2020
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~3 min read
Democracy. The system and idea that individual citizens of a nation or state has a direct influence on the rules, laws and systems that govern their way of life. The idea that everyone may participate in casting their vote for a policy or politician. One person, one vote. The history of voting rights in America […]
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 Tae-Sik
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May 14, 2025
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~5 min read
I'm sitting at a restaurant and notice a gentleman having lunch with his children. He's disheveled, middle aged and the kids appear to be about 8yrs old. If we were introduced, I wouldn't hesitate to address him as "sir", and use honorifics. Then it dawns on me: I could actually be older than him. It's […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 7, 2022
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~8 min read
There is a tolerance for life on Earth to proliferate, evolve, and multiply. The partiality for living things to stay alive is its primary imperitive, its number one self programmed instruction set. If there’s any single driving force for living...
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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July 27, 2020
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~7 min read
Money and currency is our medium for the exchange of goods and services. In the US, we use dollars. It is printed and regulated by the US Government. It is divisible, scarce, durable, portable, difficult to counterfeit, universally accepted, and stable. The value of a nation’s currency is correlated to its scarcity and wide acceptability. […]
By Tae-Sik
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December 25, 2023
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~5 min read
Is a major recession or an unspeakable depression akin to 1929 possible in our modern age? Central banks stand ready, modern banking systems with derivative assets locked and loaded, fiat currencies ready to print and the cost of money digitally available to be distributed to anyone and anywhere in seconds. Our modern economy is global, […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 12, 2025
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~12 min read
This is my impressionistic explanation of how the Bitcoin Wallet works and how it fits within the larger Bitcoin ecosystem. There are 3 components to the Bitcoin core. The Bitcoin core is the software or programmatic implementation of the Bitcoin software system. 1. Bitcoin Mining 2. Bitcoin Node 3. Bitcoin Wallet Bitcoin miners compete for […]
By Tae-Sik
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April 5, 2020
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~2 min read
Old Rich People Run the World during the Covid19 Crisis Nations are often pushed into international wars and conflict, in a struggle for geopolitical power, for the acquisition of prized resources and commodities, trade advantages, financial and political leverage. We send our young men to war, thousands die and we spend millions to acquire and […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 23, 2020
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~3 min read
We are taught to be winners. We are told that we can overcome anything. Set your mind to it, and you can do it. Losing feels tragic. The truth is that most of us are losers. We just don't want to acknowledge it. Life is hard. Life is, as they say, suffering. Losing is the […]
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 Tae-Sik
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June 26, 2020
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~3 min read
A most mysterious phenomenon of human nature is the self-awarness of one's own consciousness. To know that one is alive. Present. Locally aware. Finite in space and time. Embodied in a physical nature. It is a most mysterious thing. To be confined within, behind the eyes, between the ears, above a torso, and within the […]
By Tae-Sik
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December 6, 2019
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~4 min read
Self Consciousness is the Highest Form of Evolution We often think of IQ and intelligence to be the highest attribute of human beings. I would argue that it's the degree to which we are "self conscious". Self Consciousness, more than anything else sets us apart from every other living animal on the planet. What is […]
By Tae-Sik
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August 4, 2023
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~5 min read
The 7 Pillars of Life Seven Pillars represent the structural foundations of a substantive and meaningful human life. A careful reflection into these seven domains which support and substantiate a mindful human existence, in harmony with our nature and knowing self awareness. This is a meditation and exploration. These seven domains are foundational to a […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 19, 2020
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~4 min read
We live in a modern civilization. Organized. Structured. Peaceful. Productive. There is very little want. We should all be so lucky to be alive in this epoch. Civilization wasn't built in a day. It's taken thousands, if not millions of years, for humanity to reach today's precipice. We can easily take this for granted. Feel […]
By Tae-Sik
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June 29, 2023
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~23 min read
Sovereign governments have the power to print their own currency. Governments authorize their Central Banks to manage their fiat currency. Central Banks have the authority to create money. Central Banks can create money that increase the money supply and money available for financial transactions. More money in the system is inflationary in nature. Inflation is […]
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 Milan Ji
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December 2, 2025
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~6 min read
A young man’s value is self-evident and largely unearned. He walks into a room trailing decades of future productivity, like an invisible credit line, like a shadow ready to emerge. Society reads him the way venture capitalists read a Series A deck: high upside, tolerable risk, and, above all, a gloriously long runway. His mind […]
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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May 17, 2024
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~3 min read
The passage of time is a fascinating perception of reality. The way our mind interprets the "experience" of time is truly mysterious. Our perception of time's passage is not a constant, but a flexible construct shaped by our unconscious engagement. Your brain is a recording device. When experiencing novel stimuli, like those encountered during travel, […]
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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December 10, 2020
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~3 min read
We live in a virtual world today. What we need physically are provided for by machines and a few humans. All basic human needs are fairly inexpensive and easy to acquire. We spend most of our day in front of computers, glued to our phones, talking to dots & colors on computer screens and phone […]
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, […]
By Milan Ji
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November 4, 2025
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~7 min read
In the theater of a single life, where the curtains rise on boundless vitality and fall on quiet acceptance, there unfolds a profound arc shaped by the interplay of energy, time, and fortune. Youth arrives as a lavish subsidy from the universe, a non-renewable gift of effortless abundance, where every sensation is amplified, every risk […]