Homo Koalis

Oct 16, 2019
9 min

OPRA Swarm – Help Your Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) Organization Sing!

How can a modern data intelligence service optimize its ability to effectively manage and commercialize big data? Here I present “OPRA Swarm” (pronounced like “Oprah” as in Oprah Winfrey the American media tycoon), an organizational theory that leverages the principles of: 1) Objective + Parameters + Rationale + Aid (OPRA) – slight renaming of my previously introduced management technique which received positive feedback, and 2) swarm intelligence. My wife, a practicing artis

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Homo Koalis

Oct 14, 2019
5 min

The Way We’re Celebrating Greta Thunberg May Be Turning Her into Donald Trump

We all have strengths and weaknesses. To many in the world, some of Greta Thunberg’s greatest strengths are her passion and fearlessness. To many of those same people, some of Donald Trump’s greatest weakness is his disdain for knowledge, expertise, and lack of humility. There are also many, many people who would not agree with any of these characterizations. To those that do believe both, however, I would caution that in our justifiable desire to encourage Thunberg, we may b

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Homo Koalis

Oct 12, 2019
11 min

State Department INR – The Front Line for Great Power Diplomacy?

Since the conclusion of World War II, through the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and up until the first two decades of the 21st century, the United States had the luxury of engaging the rest of the world by and large on our own terms – we were able to do so because we had the largest economy and strongest military, we controlled global finance and trade platforms, and exerted great influence over the behavior of advanced industrial countries, most of which were allies.

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Homo Koalis

Oct 8, 2019
4 min

Workplace Motivation via Objective + Parameters + Rationale + Guidance (OPRG)

Keeping a workforce motivated is one of the holy grails of business leadership and management. Motivated employees are much more likely to produce quality work on-time and under-budget, are always looking for ways to improve, and collaborate with their co-workers to achieve breakthroughs. Unmotivated employees on the other hand, deliver poor quality work that’s often late and require extensive rework + cost overruns, don’t care to improve themselves or their company, and spen

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Homo Koalis

Sep 23, 2019
6 min

Edward Snowden – A Case Study on The Importance of Strong Communication Skills

Edward Snowden, the former United States intelligence analyst now under exile in Moscow, Russia, is prominent in mainstream news again to promote his newly published memoir: “Permanent Record”. To some, especially those in senior positions within the U.S. military and intelligence apparatus, Snowden is a traitor who betrayed the trust of the agencies he worked for. To seemingly many more, Snowden is a hero who made a moral, patriotic decision that he knew would upend his life

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Homo Koalis

Aug 29, 2019
3 min

An Open Letter to The Andrew Yang for President 2020 Campaign

Dear Yang2020 Campaign, I am currently a proud member of the #YangGang, and am happy to say that I'm meeting more and more people who believe in the Freedom Dividend. I'm also getting more and more questions about how Yang will get the required legislation past Congress. I haven't seen many compelling answers to that question, so in the spirit of support, I want to freely offer the following response for consideration, which I wrote with my best understanding of Andrew as a c

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Homo Koalis

Feb 4, 2019
4 min

A Valuable Relationship Network and Potential Lifestyle-as-a-Service (LaaS) Business Model

The We Company, previously leading office Space-as-a-Service provider WeWork, welcomed 2019 with two big announcements: 1) an additional $2 billion investment from SoftBank valuing the company at $47 billion, 2) going forward, WeWork will be rebranded as The We Company with 3 main offerings: - WeWork turnkey office-as-a-service - WeLive serviced housing-as-a-service - WeGrow extracurricular networking-as-a-service Many in the business media have opined that given the company’

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Homo Koalis

Dec 4, 2017
6 min

Moral Considerations of Participating in Today’s Cryptocurrency Economy

Cryptocurrencies have been quite the topic of interest over the past year, as Bitcoin (“BTC”), the first and most famous of all cryptocurrencies, soared from $370/BTC on November 30, 2016, to around $11,000/BTC on November 30, 2017 – an 2900% increase in value over one year. With 16.7 million Bitcoins (out of a maximum of 21 million that will be available around the year 2035) in existence, the market value of all Bitcoins is approximately $184 billion. Bitcoin is not the onl

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Homo Koalis

Feb 17, 2017
1 min

A Model for Post-Secondary Education Income Share Agreements Based on Blockchain Smart Contracts

An income share agreement, or ISA, is a financial contract where a sponsor provides a fixed amount of money or valuable services to a recipient who, in exchange, agrees to pay back a percentage of his/her income over an agreed upon period of time. A post-secondary education ISA is specifically used by students to obtain 2-year associate, 4-year undergraduate, advanced graduate degree, or vocational education services. In recent years, pioneering universities have begun to pil

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