If someone could come up with an affiliate marketing system where people who promote an e-book, a piece of music, or a movie could share in the profits of content they linked to, they could invent a whole new industry of internet content promotion.
Category: culture
The Value of Truth (Codex Vagus: essay 08)
Truth is not an abstract concept. Open dialogue is not a formality. Free speech is the lifeline of a stable and prosperous society.
A Movie Theater NFT (Codex Vagus: essay 05)
If we can attach a paywall and make a pay-per-view-NFT, any video creator can in theory create their own Netflix-like platform.
Synthetic Fuel Panels (Codex Vagus: essay 04)
A self-contained modularised microfluidic reactor and solar cell combination that produces synthetic gasoline from air, water, and sunlight is what the world desperately needs right now.
The Base Delta Principle (Codex Vagus: essay 03)
Someone clever enough to work out all the engineering hurdles of this proposal may become a billionaire some day.
The Sinister Future of Cryptocurrency (Codex Vagus: essay 02)
Nobody is warning you what disasters could happen if cryptocurrency actually worked.
The Two Sides of the Metaverse (Codex Vagus: essay 01)
Don't get too excited about the metaverse. Look before you leap.
Justice and Retribution
Can we give up cancel culture and adopt restorative and transformative justice?
The Cultural Background of “Attack on Titan”
I tried to stay away from political topics on this blog and tried to focus on the topic of writing. But I make an exception here because it ties in with all the things I have written in the past about writing across cultures. I have said that writing in English as a second language … Continue reading The Cultural Background of “Attack on Titan”
A New Word
All writers are word hunters. They are constantly on the lookout for words they don't know and never used. I believe I am particularly keen on new words since English is a second language to me. I recently came across a new word I did not previously know. The word is "incel". I came across … Continue reading A New Word
Samurai Novelist 