In 2016, I looked at 11 completed elections across 10 countries. Search volume was correlated with victory in 9 elections. It also predicted the victory of Duterte and Trump. Will it predict the winner of the 2022 presidential elections of the Philippines? — I wrote this in 2016: Can Search Volume Predict the Next President of the Philippines (and USA)? Post-election update: search volume predicted both the winners of the Philippine and US elections (see 2nd to the last…corazo.org

The first requirement for success is to not fail. Failures are predictable. Most businesses have been tried. Let’s learn from the experience of others, so that we avoid the usual pitfalls. Advenient.co is entering a partnership with a European company. They handle sales and strategy; we provide marketing technology talent…

There’s nothing like a lockdown to make you question where you’re spending your time. And I turned 40 this year, so the ticking of time has gotten a bit louder. Rather than philosophize, I’ll try out some new kinds of work, and possibly start a new business this year. …

What more likely to work — a Limitless pill or a comprehensive program to maintain a healthy brain? An N=1 biohacking experiment. — What we get done in life largely depend on how we make decisions, how we persuade and how we execute. These things stem from our minds and our brains—the quality of our software and our hardware. My upbringing and education focused on training the mind: knowledge, wisdom, pattern-recognition, emotional self-mastery…

At Flowstate, we have experimented with lots of sipping chocolate in the kitchen. A key lesson: you need heat to unlock the potential for flavor and mouthfeel of sipping chocolate. What’s the science behind this? The same thing happened earlier today at 5g Coffee House. I brought the owner…

Most business histories are misleading. The stories that get told tend to be self-serving to the tellers. And the ones that get repeated are those that follow archetypes — like the heroes journey — the ones that we like to hear. In the past, I taught entrepreneurship in college and…

Plus the “cover band learning strategy”, 39 bioinformatics tools and two The Simpsons references. — Do you remember this episode in The Simpsons? I predict that within 10 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them. — Dr. Frink When this aired, many of us had our…

Plus that time I had a Ratatouille moment at a cacao farm — I’ll be organizing sipping chocolate tasting sessions for Flowstate, my new side gig with my brother Peter Corazo. Signup here. Since this is technically a business, I was able to override my stingy Cebuano soul and enrolled in this course on Mastering Chocolate Flavor. …