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Define the Problem or You Won’t Solve Anything

Jul 7, 2020Nicholas MitsakosArticleeconomics, inequality, public policy, strategy

Most people have no idea what they are doing. The best intentions combined with intellectual prowess and plentiful capital rarely achieve anything worthwhile. They fail because they don’t know what they’re trying to solve. Nothing can be solved until the problem is defined accurately. Otherwise it is a waste of time and resources (which describes most public policy). All too often decision makers waste time, resources, and make matters worse because they simply do not understand the actual problem they’re trying to solve.

pandemic time

Apr 17, 2020Nicholas MitsakosArticleArtificial Intelligence, coronavirus, internet time, Machine learning, manufacturing, pandemic, pandemic time

Instead of “internet time” we now have “pandemic time.” The need for advanced systems to keep society functioning, manufacturing moving, and give consumers some sense of safety is immediate. Driving innovations – whether those innovations are in health care, technology or other areas of production and manufacturing – is essential to not only offset the…

An unprecedented (every 10 years or so) event

Apr 14, 2020Nicholas MitsakosArticlecoronovirus, market modulation, opportunity, risk

We Didn’t See This One Coming – Sort Of The coronavirus has created a disruption to our lives, relationships, business, and financial markets. But, as we look beyond the immediate crisis, market trends and investment opportunities can be analyzed and calibrated to take advantage of unprecedented opportunities. Since major disruptions and market discontinuities occur on…

AI, Medicine and…Quantum Cryptography?

Mar 29, 2020Nicholas MitsakosArticle

Special thanks to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research and notes http://web.mit.edu/ Artificial Intelligence, Correlation, and Failure Artificial Intelligence identifies correlations far more frequently than causal relationships. Correlations show how certain phenomena go together, which can be quite useful in many circumstances – but not in medicine. Only causal links tell why the presence of…

The U.S China Chess Match

Jan 8, 2020Nicholas MitsakosArticlechina, technology, trade, trump, us policy, xi

A global economic and political chess game is on between the United States and China. There are many moves, defensive and offensive strategies, short- and long-term gains, but, unlike chess, mutual victory is possible.

Productive or Pointless?

Dec 16, 2019Nicholas MitsakosArticle, Blog

Maybe the reason we find it so hard to get anything done is that most of the things we do just fundamentally don’t need to be done. All the productivity lifehacks out there are ultimately missing the point: we’re avoiding our work because our work is pointless.

Disruption? Get a perspective

Dec 6, 2019Nicholas MitsakosArticle

Disruptive technologies are apparently being developed faster than we can adapt to the full impact of their disruption. Really? Internet time may not be the fast-paced disruptive force we assume, and these “disruptions” may not come close to the scale society experienced over 100 years ago. Consider the following innovations, all occurring within a short…

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