Posts by Sterlin Lujan
Entrepreneurs, Discover Your Product-Market Fit and Win Big
One of the most important marketing factors entrepreneurs must consider is product-market fit. No matter how great your business acumen and execution is as an entrepreneur, “if the dogs don’t eat the dog food,” you will fail. Even if your team designs the perfect product, if there is no market for it, you will fail. If…
Read MoreTech Denialism: From Crypto Skepticism to Guided Adoption
A lot of players in the blockchain industry act surprised at how many people embrace crypto skepticism. Even after a decade of success, naysayers believe bitcoin and cryptocurrency equate to an elaborate scam or vast conspiracy. They believe it is doomed to failure or that some nefarious entity is out there trying to fleece the…
Read MoreEconomic Literacy Comes at a Price, but Being Economically Illiterate is Unpardonable
In order to understand what’s going on in the world, people must embrace economic literacy. And I am not talking about the bastardized economics disseminated by ivory tower pseudo-intellectuals. I am talking about Austrian praxeology; I am talking about human action. It’s through this conduit of knowledge that people internalize the vile and evil nature…
Read MoreNotes on Freedom Marketing: Embrace Empathy to Touch Hearts and Change Minds
Anarchists aren’t just philosophers. They are marketers. They are vying to make change in people and in society at large. That is marketing, and it requires more than just proselytizing ideas. It requires selling them, and this is no simple task. People want to buy; they want to embrace new considerations, but the anarchist must…
Read MoreNotes on Love and Closeness or (Relationship Art)
Love and closeness are the most precious values in my life. Without my darling wife, I would be adrift. Cecillia inspires me to attain lofty goals; and likewise, I encourage her to achieve greatness. We allow ourselves to take risks and to create art together; to make our shared goals creative in nature. In this…
Read MoreDecent Parents Don’t Spank their Children for Disobedience
Intelligent and decent parents don’t hit or “discipline” their children for disobeying authority. They don’t justify the system by spanking their children. They recognize hitting is assault, but they recognize much more. These parents understand the system is broken; they know they can’t expect their children to merely fall in line. These parents want to…
Read MoreThe Anarchic Evolution: How Freedom Lovers are taking Liberty to Mass Market
Anarchism as a philosophy is changing. It’s in the midst of a renaissance. Better: its undergoing an evolution. The focal point is shifting. This means anarchists are driving the ship toward greater adoption. Anarchism is on the cusp of going to mass market. The basic principles remain the same, though. “Without rulers” is still the…
Read MoreThe Idea of War and its Sacralization
Doesn’t the idea of war invoke horror within? Doesn’t it cause the soul to ache; to crawl and wail? How does one come to the conclusion that warfare is natural? How does one find so many ways to condone it? It’s barbaric. The notion that one human should travel great distances to kill another human…
Read MoreTale of an Orwellian Nightmare: The TSA Touched me and Fondled my Stuff
I finally returned from the Crypto Finance conference in Switzerland. I had the most intense, degrading, and unnecessary experience with the TSA. When I arrived in Dallas, and went through customs, the TSA apprehended me at the security checkpoint and pulled me aside. They tagged me for an additional search either because they know who…
Read MoreUndermining Government Through Communicative Anarchism
At its heart, anarchism is a philosophy. It is about asserting that installing rulers and initiating violence are wholly immoral. Anarchism is a synonym for absolute liberty. The philosophy is a conclusion one arrives at through deductive reasoning — through understanding slavery is unacceptable in any form and government is just another form of it.…
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