Lessons from my time building products for a fast-paced, unstructured, AI start up. — Embrace but do not trust ambiguity. Trust but verify, they say. That’s easier said than done, especially when faced with ambiguity. Ambiguity in professional settings is alluring — especially for innovators and creatives. It allows you to move quickly, build, and sometimes break things along the way. It fuels innovation…

It is the latest example of how terrorism by the State is the most persistent and dangerous wave of terrorism. — The clock marked 18:59 in the afternoon in Madrid’s buzzling under renovation Plaza del Sol. That afternoon a beautiful sunset owned up to the Plaza’s name. There, next to the Metro’s entrance, your author stumbled upon a group of forty or so Spaniards. They chanted anti-Franco slogans and proudly held…

At stake is the free world, the international order, and good reigning over evil. — If you follow my writing, you will know that I dislike opinion pieces. All attempts at providing substance to an audience should be based on empirical data, factual reporting and credible sources; emotions and baseless claims should be left aside. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its bombing of a…

Just look south for their implications. — A month before the 6 January protests and terrorist attack, President Donald Trump’s staff drafted two executive orders –neither authorized — that among other things ordered the Secretary of Defense [1] and or the Department of Homeland Security [2] to “seize, collect, retain, and analyze all [election-related] machines, equipment, electronically…

Latin America seems poised to fully embrace it; Making it susceptible to Chinese Influence — Latin America has become the epitome of political extremes. “He did okay,” a taxi driver in Quito, Ecuador claimed about former leftist president Andres Correa. “A lot of the roads, including this one, are thanks to his policies,” he further added. The Uber driver in Lima, Peru was more cynical…

The terrorism charge in the Oxford High School mass shooting reflects an endemic misunderstanding of the term. — Mass shootings are the new normal in America. This new normal is partly thanks to a vicious cycle that repeats itself after each shooting. One side calls for more gun control regulations. The other uses them as a rationale for more guns. It is not a surprise, then, that this…

It is plausible, but they are unlikely to do it. — A couple days after Facebook changed its name to Meta, a friend asked me if I had seen Mr Zuckerberg’s keynote. No, I responded. “It is crazy,” my friend replied. Intrigued, I watched the keynote, and immediately messaged back, “Crazy no, it is puzzling!” …

There are some troubling signs — “What is happening in [America] now, is exactly what was happening in Bosnia before the [civil] war…. Hate on this level can only be sustained so long before actually becoming a civil war.” …

For twenty years America pursued unmixable strategies — You can stir as much as you want but oil and water will not mix. Afghanistan and the Taliban’s return to political power after twenty years proves this truism true, sadly, once more. So, why after so much blood and treasure, are the Taliban in power? And no, it was…