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02.18.08

TheFunded.com Anonymity TheFunded.com | (0)
TheFunded.com received a frustrated email from an approved Member today (which is a first), addressing the composition of the invitation email: You don't even have a mail domain as thefunded.com - Should I really trust this email ? TheFunded.com processes all Membership applications using Gmail account. There is a very deliberate reason for this, outlined below in my reply: So that you know, the reason that we do not use TheFunded.com domain for email is for anonymity. All accounts are 100% anonymous - no IP addresses, no email addresses, no ...
02.14.08

Populate the City of the Future City of the Future | (2)
Here is an interesting model to populate and/or finance the City of the Future project: The Point TechCrunh Keith Powers passed these links along, and I agree. Thank you! There has also been some discussion about archiving ideas and knowledge that could be called upon in the development and construction of new cities in the Gulf and China. Using this approach, many cities could be constructed with the underlying ideas differently to match cultural and geographical needs. Interesting.
02.06.08

Voting for the City of The Future… City of the Future | (3)
Â A well-regarded visionary in online content creation wrote me the following in regard to using a voting system to determine principles and attributes for the City of The Future. Experts can and should participate in the dialogue, of course.Â And their opinions should be given higher weight.Â But actual voting introduces some bad game theoretic dynamics not conducive to good outcomes. Consider your sink.Â It's clogged up.Â Are you going to call 3 plumbers and have them vote on what to do?Â Or are you going to call 3 plumbers and make a rational judgment based on the arguments that they put forward? I am not sure ...
02.04.08

Berlin Rocks. Opinion | (1)
Berlin is an awesome city. There is nothing like going to the fifth floor of an abandoned, bullet marked, and graffitied building to find a nice bar and lounge. Berlin Photos
02.04.08

Sold All of My Equities Opinion | (3)
Today, I sold 100% of my equity and mutual fund positions. Many stocks were held for 10 years, but they are now all liquidated. We shall see if this was the right move. 2008-02-06 Update: I guess that I got lucky, as the market dropped 3+% on Tuesday, right after I sold everything. Not that I should be counted on to make stock predictions, but my guess is that the market will bump down another 10+%. Then, I MAY consider purchasing equities, but I will likely start to make investments through hedge funds in future growth markets overseas. In my un-expert opinion, ...
02.03.08

A Thought… City of the Future | (1)
"For one can not take from the mind what one can take from the earth - the mind only gives"
02.01.08

Breaking the Cycle City of the Future | (2)
The rise and fall of civilizations is a all-too-well-known phenomenon. Changing the disruptive forces in these sequential cycles is an interesting challenge to ponder and a worthy goal to achieve. But, how? Do you need to have a plan for the path? Do you need to know why you choose the new path and what the pitfalls are? I would imagine that such a new path would include various concurrent rise and fall cycles peacefully co-existing in one unified path. There might be other ways as well, but the cycle itself seems part of our nature. In the co-existence model, education and tolerance, ...
02.01.08

Love All - Serve All City of the Future | (1)
This message is inscribed on a building here in Amsterdam. Interesting is the concept of coupling love and service. Do the two go hand in hand? Is there a balance between the two... Can that balance be disrupted?

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