Welcome to the Cheshire Views

A creative outlet for critical thinking and debating Tech, Business and Entrepreneurship

Welcome to the Cheshire Views, a newsletter for long reads, essays, and critical thoughts on technology, business, and entrepreneurship. Being an active member in the financial transactions industry and in various artificial intelligence ventures, I like the broad and diverse points of view I can develop in my daily professional activities.

As I like to learn, my views may change and evolve over time, and I often like to exercise the intellectual freedom to even contradict previously made points. Much of how Carneades came to Rome in 155 BCE after being sent to deprecate the fine imposed on the Athenians for the destruction of the city of Oropus. Carneades made a big splash with his powerful speeches on philosophy. Right before Cato the Elder, he gave two notable speeches about justice. The first praised Roman justice, but he flipped the script the next day. In his second speech, he argued against everything he said the day before. Instead, he attempted to prove justice was inevitably problematic and suggested it was just a convenient tool for keeping society in order. Obviously, the Romans were not amused.

One may find this penchant to seek fallibilistic alternatives enigmatic or confusing, much like the behavior of the mischievous grinning Cheshire Cat in Lewis Caroll’s work, Alice in Wonderland. But while I admire the rhetorical rigor of Carneades and appreciate the jest in the Cheshire Cat’s iconic smile, as an author, I find it a moral duty to provoke and encourage the reader to come to his own conclusion. 

Or how the Cheshire Cat himself would put it:

The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die

So, while I'm not too fond of path dependencies in reasoning, not everything is fluid. Some of the more stable properties of my writing include a propensity to value ethics over the law, disruption over sustainability, entrepreneurship over management, capitalism over socialism, intellectualism over populism, and skepticism over dogma.

This newsletter is my intellectual outlet, where every view expressed does not necessarily correspond to the opinions and beliefs expressed by the companies I am involved with.

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Filip.