Entries by Mdleminer472

Got Guano?

If you try any preversions [sic] in there, I’ll blow your head off. Col.” Bat” Guano, Dr. Strangelove Hypernomics notes that of all the perverted ways to start a war, Bolivia’s imposed tax on Chile is one of the most strange. I mean, who fights for bat poop? Countries looking for saltpeter, that’s who. Hungry […]

The Utility Case Vs. Value Analysis

Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want – Anne Lappé Recently, long-dead Jeremy Bentham took a cross-campus trip. Shunning a wooden cupboard he long occupied in the Wilkins Building at University College London, he moved, greatly aided, to a shiny new booth in UCL’s Student Centre […]

Paying for High Ground

You can observe a lot by just watching – Yogi Berra My wife, mother-in-law, and I took a cruise on the Danube and Rhine rivers a few years ago and saw several castles along the way. Scaling one with a tour guide, we noticed there were remote towers of the same construction in different directions […]

Cost in Space

The impossible happens all the time – Will Robinson, Lost In Space 2018 TV series Want to be an astronaut? If you’d like to do that for NASA, it’s nearly impossible. Need to swing the odds in your favor? Now you can. Hypernomics says, if you can’t beat the game, change it. Several firms are […]

Triple Limited Demand

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand – C.L. Lewis. Many products sink due to scarce sales. Uninspected, market boundaries seem murky. Hypernomics can project at least three demand limits before entry, reducing the chance of overreach. Pilatus makes the PC-12. It’s the best-selling business aircraft model (1st […]

Interactive Redundancy

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life assures little. Recognizing that, many create contingency plans. Backup aircraft flight controls systems and duplicative car safety features save lives. Emergency generators keep hospital lights on. As history shows judges favor local […]

The Tech Ketchup

I had the good fortune to be invited to be on an episode of The Tech Ketchup Show- A Nerd For Tech Originals. They say this about that: “The episode features Douglas Howarth, CEO of MEE, Inc. In this episode, he walks us into the story that motivated him to solve the interesting problem of […]

Gap Maps

If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction – Sam Walton. Lots of people will tell you to discover your niche. What if you could map it? Hypernomics shows you how. On September 16, 1893, tens of thousands sought […]

Chasing the 8th Dimension

“May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough? I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.” Lord John Whorfin, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai In the film named for him, rockstar, brain surgeon, and test pilot Buckaroo Banzai drives a pickup through a mountain and […]

3 + 2 = 4

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected Julius Caesar It’s disturbing to think that 3+2 won’t equal 5. Or that markets are unlike space and begin with four dimensions. Or that we might discover images that disagree with paradigms held for over 100 years. But what happens if we […]