Predicting The Future… Writing Topics!
The die is cast. If we don’t destroy ourselves or enter into a new dark age, then certain events will inevitability play out. They are free energy, molecule-accurate manufacturing, and infinite computing. They will of course transform society, and our biggest challenges will eventually be keeping our minds sharp and maintaining some form of individual identities—but you will be motivated to do so, because cleverness and personal brand becomes currency. There are a whole series of smaller, more modest break-throughs on the way that will make for a fun ride, such as better batteries, mind-mindbogglingly good 3D printers, and super-computing in your sunglasses. We may even have an instantaneous galactic Internet soon, with the ironic twist being that you have to to carry the receivers to each end-point, sorta throwing a wet blanket on the hope of using it to chat with aliens anytime soon.
Creativity / Inspiration / Motivation
- How to Record & Utilize Thoughts / Idea Capture / List Reduction
- Wanting To Do the Work-at-hand More Than Anything Else in Life
- Thinking Exercises That Make All The Difference / Forming Habits
- Thinking & Doing In the Information Age / The Advantageous Thin-line
- The Starving Artist Effect / Intensity and Recovery / A Healthy Heart
- Sources of Inspiration / External Stimuli / Vision Quests / Grounding
- Self-discipline / Visualization / Fighting Laziness / Really Wanting It
Strategy / Patterns / Effectiveness
- Easily Memorized “One-Page” Plans / The Usefulness of Rattling it Off
- The Advantage of True Focus Time / Humans Don’t Multi-task Well
- Finding Blind Spots / Traditional vs. Non-traditional /Â Uncovering Advantage
- Divvying Out Time-slices / Working on Multiple Fronts
- How Organizing Information Is at The Heart of Everything Human
- Small-Wins Build Momentum /Success Begets Success / Compounding Returns
- Understanding Peoples’ Motivations / The Art of Lightly Steam-rolling
- Individuals who Systematized & Packaged Strategy /Â Robert Cialdini / Sun Tzu
- Doing it “For the Man” vs. Yourself / Peter Drucker-style Knowledge Workers
- You can’t make everyone happy. Decide who to let down, and who to let down HARD.
Tools / Risk / RISC
- The Eternal Battle Between Complexity & Simplicity / Experts vs. Beginners
- Complexity Is a Weapon to Fortify the Incumbent / How Not to Be Fooled
- Mastery of Tools and Spontaneous Expertise / The Math-Art-Music Connection / Deliberate Choice /Â Becoming That Expert / 10,000 Hours
- Choosing Tools /Â Safe-guarding Against Obsolescence / >20 Year Lifespan
- Proprietary Vs. Open Source / Apple Vs. Google / It “Just Working” vs. The Necessity to Hack / The “Your Time is Worth Something” Trade-off
- Open Source as Weapon of Disruption / Getting With The Google Program
- How to Reboot Society / Every Radio Receiver is Also a Transmitter / Building Logic Gates from Anything
- How to Get (and Give Your Child) the “Tools Advantage” Early in Life
The Future
- The Obvious “Change-Everything” Technologies / Inevitabilities
- Mesh-networking / Ad Hoc Internets / Whack-a-mole Information
- Water is an Infinitely Renewable Resource / Free Energy is The Trick
- Efficient Solar-cells & Super-conductivity / Who Pays for That? The Sun!
- Inherent Biases Resulting from Past Innovations / Getting Over Them
- Sub-vocalization and Mind-reading User Interfaces / Soft-interfaces vs. Implants
- Micro-manufacturing / Rapid Prototyping Gets Real / Desktop Fabricators
- Strange Combinations: Mesh-networking + Mind-reading UIs + Fabricators
- Whether or Not the Spooky-force Pans Out / Instantaneous Communication
- The Count-down to Armageddon / DRM as a Survival Imperative / Super-police
- The First Computer Program That’s “Just Creative Enough”… the Singularity
- Infinite Supply, Infinite Choice, Infinite Space / The Race Against the Singularity Shock-wave / Homesteading