Irreni World Scale

Hi! Happy Monday! All you need is love! Zoom zoom! A couple of news items in the news lately have dovetailed nicely into my third take on kindness, love everyone. Indiana's bait and switch tactic of passing a Religious Freedom Restoration Act that goes beyond protecting a person from government religious oppression , but instead calls a business a person and then allows civil, person-to-person religious oppression. But hey, the law has the same name, RFRA! The problem with this statement [is that, well, it’s false. That becomes clear when you read and compare those tedious state statutes.  If you do that, you will find that the Indiana statute has two features the federal RFRA—and most state RFRAs—do not. First, the Indiana law explicitly allows any for-profit business to assert a right to “the free exercise of religion.” The federal RFRA doesn’t contain such language, and neither does any of the state RFRAs except South Carolina’s; in fact, Louisiana and Pennsylvani

Hi! Party Friday! Hope you all are doing swell well ell ll l... So, last post was a kinda tongue-in-cheek post about thou shall not suffer an asshole for a boss. Now that wasn't very kind of me! woo hoo! The point is fair enough. The point being that since we are no longer in survival mode then our collective agenda is quality of life. And that starts with the people we have leading us, no more assholes. Kind people please! Still though that is not very kind of me to express a post promoting kindness in a very ungraceful fashion. <3 Welllll, that's cause I do have an important follow up point to make about the subject of kindness: kindness take two. Mean people frustrate us. Mean people bring out the meanness in us or just turn us off. They certainly don't inspire us to be kind. We don't like to see that ugly response bubble up from within ourselves so we just walk away. Benjamin Franklin had another take on this topic of in his autobiography. I contin

Hi! Happy Tuesday! The human race is over! We won! Woot! Celebrate! Woo hooo! Let me explain. For most of human history...nay most of human existence...we humans have scratched and clawed every single day just to survive. A race to survive. Because of this race then any and all means necessary could justified, up to and including war and genocide. Then something happened. Technology. Technology happened. Technology allowed us to farm and feed and since then we've been on a slow technological pace of winning the human race. Until? We won! We invented the atomic bomb! Boom! The atomic bomb meant game for the over arms race!  Literally. If any country invades these United States of America they have a big kablooey surprise waiting for them. After the advent of farming the human race converged on an arms race until the atomic bomb was the end of the line. Any weapon more destructive than an atomic bomb would also destroy whomever used the weapon thus rendering th

Hi! Happy Monday! http://www.startalkradio.net/show/the-future-of-humanity-with-elon-musk/ Elon Musk has a lot of money. Boys and their toys. Elon Musk is a geek like me. He's a programmer, he built the Tesla company and he is behind SpaceX. What's not to like? Awesome!  In the link I shared above we have an interview with on my favs, Neil Degrasse Tyson. Fun stuff! Sadly, the future being presented here is not one I can get behind. That is because the number one problem that humans and technology needs to solve today is human management. Human management. Assume for the moment that climate change is everything we are being warned about. Or, assume maybe there is an asteroid headed  towards Earth and we get one year's notice. Does the human management that exists on this planet today have the capabilities to manage either crisis? Hardly.  Not by a long shot. Don't get me wrong; people cannot live by bread alone and we need collective dreams like going to Mar

Hi! Zappy Sunday! Ok, I've given this blog post a controversial title. Muh ha ha! This blog in general is about about helping people build the world and scale the world. Irreni means innovation replaces revolution, engineering replaces ideology.  My last blog post offered up a scalable solution for dialog, putting aside ideology in favor of creating a space for common dialog and thus engineering conversations that do not require the supernatural ideology. This blog post is mostly a tangent about where things are going with atheist ideology.  If you have a couple of hours to kill I'd like to recommend a debate that talks about the God Gene . First off, there is no god gene. Just as there is no gay gene. However it is useful to talk about both types of genes as a kinda shorthand way of saying "natural". Even though there are no such genes there is scientific evidence that correlates both homosexuality and religion with genetic traits. Religion is taught to c

Hi! Groovy Sunday! How ya' all doin'? Well I hope. Phi-tips! Phi-tips are things you stick in your ear before you stick in your Q-Tips! Ha! How does one discuss the supernatural in the information age? Phi-tips! That's what these phi-tips are about, helping you to consume information with confidence. First, the tips and then the long windedness. Tips Decision thresholds. There are two fundamental decision thresholds: control and whimsy. I typically refer to the two fundamental levels of "control" and "whimsy" as "decision making" and "pop culture" respectively. I make purchasing decisions every day for pop culture that have no control aspects. I buy music and sci-fi t-shirts. These are decisions...but these decisions do not rise the level of decision making about controlling people. Those of us who are atheists have no problem with religion, sports, Justin Beaver or any other pop culture people want to subscribe too. Al

Hi! Happy Monday! How ya' doin'? Today? Self leadership! What is self leadership? Well, glad you asked! You have a choice. Either the government forces you to do something or you do it on your own terms. And here's the kicker. If the government forces you to do something then you are going to resent that government. Not like that government. Bad government, bad. No one likes to be controlled. Not Democrat. Not Republican. Not no one. Let's do a compare and contrast: recycling vs. CFLs, compact florescent light bulbs. So be honest here. Of the two choices being recycling and CFLs, which went down better: the recycling programs that were rolled out gradually over time with financial incentive for returning things or being told to adopt CFLs? There is no Federal program today mandating recycling. Yet recycling is everywhere. We are faced with a onslaught of efficiency choices with climate change. The question is will we do so with self-leadership or are

Hi! Happy Sunday! Two posts today! Woot! I just posted about hope. That we can all exercise personal power by acknowledging and rallying around world scale agendas such as climate change, food and water. In many of my previous posts I've blogged about personal power but did not call things out as such. For example, the vote bank and voting only for who you know are two personal power changes for the information age. I've also written about making bribery legal and part of the voting process. These ideas are far fetched and probably more confusing than enlightening on their face. This post starts at the beginning of personal power: distribute or centralize. I will not end up at a conclusion resulting in explaining the vote bank, six-degree voting and legal bribery; but the arguments here will motivate closer to understanding the reasoning behind those notions. In the beginning. In the beginning there is power. How do we distribute this power? Power in success is dist

Hi! Happy Sunday! The future is coming! What does that even mean? ha! As a futurist I've been blogging my ideas for awhile now. My blog here is mostly of a personal nature. And by personal nature I mean that these are mostly notes to myself. A journal of sorts. The blog posts are not intended so much as a vehicle of persuasion. There is no story telling per se. These blog posts have no motivation to connect the dots that good writing of complicated ideas should have. I know this. Today, I'm going to add a little motivation. I was going to entitle this post "Personal Power" as it is a follow on to my previous post, Sharing Power . However, as I was driving down to Menlo Park this morning to have a breakfast I came up with a some motivation and renamed this blog post "Hope". The future of thinking in world scale is coming. Food and water are a problem on a world scale. There are 7 billion people on this planet today and predictions are for 10 billi

Hi! Happy Friday! Zoom zoom! Experimentation Required Just a reminder that claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Lately I've been posting some fairly sophisticated empathy social group ideas. One of the many pillars of Irreni is the call for experimentation. As the future models for scaling social groups come online in the information age then empathetically it is important not to just adopt change en mass without starting at the small group level. Even if by chance such large implementations succeed at any level. like say going straight from a few policemen wearing body cameras to all 630,000 police officers wearing body cameras, the efficacy of these programs will be much higher going through rigorous rounds of proving experiments with groups of all sizes. We need to sell our new social ideas and get buy in  of the people, by the people and for the people. We should refrain from rolling out large scale initiatives such as with Obamacare without