Walter O'Brien (AKA "Scorpion") 2/16/16

Walter O’Brien (AKA “Scorpion”) 2/16/16

Scorpion Computer Services was born from people asking him to fix and set up their computers as they switched from typewriters.
85% of success is attributed to EQ. <what did he mean by success, and is this a measure of corporate success only? >
He then worked on helping develop EQ skills in those with high IQ’s, in part to help himself.
Scorpion nickname came from his occasional snapping and beating up of bullies.
As the company grew, he sought to hire only people with high IQ or EQ, both extremes.
- Over 1.3 billion in revenue.
- 1/3 of business is Gove, third is companies, and any funded need biz
Largest gov project – involved in US Ballistics project.
Literally, they solve any funded need.
Wrote book – can you make a new York times best seller.
Strength of Scorpion is approaching any problem with the mindset of an engineer. The discipline of an engineer works shockingly well to many facets of life, people are always surprised.
Convert ambiguity into absolute.
Head transplants – the only organ we haven’t been able to replace is the brain.
If you can switch bodies, you don’t have to die.
“I consider death mandatory right now, and would prefer if it was optional.”
The tricky part of reattaching the head is reattaching the spine. If done right, it would allow you to not only live, but to not be paralyzed.
“our body is basically just a life support system for our head anyway.”
Seems head transplants happening reliably in about 15 years.
For uploading your brain, sees this happening in 2045.
Speculates that the brain is roughly 2.5 pedobites of storage at about a trillion neurons. A harddrive will hit that amount of storage in about 8 years. The hardware is about a decade away from handling that data storage and flow.
Uploading the brain isn’t the hard part. Mouse memories have already been downloaded on a computer chip. The hard part is that each brain decodes data differently. What I interpret is different from how your brain would interpret it. Even if the data was downloaded, uploading it onto another brain would meaningless data in the new hardware.
Unless you can repeat something 33 times in a row, it’s not scientific proof. What people saw or believed once is unreliable data.
Does not drink alcohol. Be he does things to the extreme or not at all. Drinking, drugs or smoking is too easy to fall into.
TF – can you increase your IQ?
- IQ is the amount of glucose you absorb, the speed your brain cycles, and how fast you fire neurons.
- IQ can’t be increased, but other definitions of smart can.
TF – how can you increase EQ?
- Be self aware that you’re lacking in it.
- Then observe others applying it.
- Do not put yourself below or above anyone else by default.
VR works out spacial locality as therapy and to break writers block. As occulus rift becomes popular, this will become consumer grade.
- Meditation is the closest we have to this VR supertech.
The tech on the market is still amateur. Not enough funding yet.
Book – visions of heaven, glimpses of Hell. Teaches new applications on VR.
Video games already give a level of VR immersion.
Tesla suit for full body tactile feedback. True VR immersion.
The line between movies and video games will blur.
SenGen system he developed – a system that allows massive data architecture on simple machines. Used to calculate all potential outcomes to a given situation.
Scorpion TV show started as an ad for the company. To find clients and genius level applicants.
Tells of the existence of blood platelet injections that slow release oxygen into the bloodstream, allowing for someone to be underwater for up to 22 minutes without breathing. Used on children also who are having operations post lung collapse, which gives them an extra 8 minutes of oxygenated blood.
peace means giving the right people the biggest stick, and he develops those sticks. The relative global peace of recent years is because the US has had the biggest stick.
If all was equal, and all countries had balanced armies and capabilities, the world would be at constant war.
Apathy and laziness are his biggest problems. His biggest challenge is accepting these people.
He is the third leg of the startup stool. One leg is the idea, one leg is the funding, and he is the difficult execution.
Successful – Bill Gates. People should be selfish in the first half of their life, so that they can be effectively unselfish in the second half. Mother Teresa hugged 100 K people, many of whom died of starvation later that day. Bill Gates write a single check that word out malaria for 7 million people, and started the largest charity in history.
Success – reach self actualization and get on the path to fulfilling those goals. That is also happiness.
- Find your purpose, and figure out a master plan for attaining it.
Logics his way out of funds.
Books – 48 laws of power. 4 hour workweek. Fooled by randomness. Black Swan.
Best 100 dollar or less purchase. Take a hundred bucks and keep it off site for an emergency. Cut spare keys to everything and do the same. Spend 60 bucks on AAA. Back up everything personal.
- Take everything in your wallet and photo copy both sides. Keep that off-site.
- Back up everything digitally.
- Take everything with a single point of failure and back it up.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. The years ago, when he had multiple offers, he would take them all. Does not regret this, even at a cost of lost sleep.
New ideas are a disease that he needs to get out of his system. Bringing them to life becomes an obsession, and their birth is a relief, not a moment of happiness.
Never take a meeting before ten AM.
No daily routines.
New years resolution – have one day with no checklist of things to do. Won’t happen.
Billboard anywhere in the world – create a billboard for a life University, that teaches you all of the life skills that school doesn’t.
Peer pressure is the biggest reason for bad judgement.
TF – “when you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”
“If you want to search something, type it in Google, if you want it to happen, type it in conciergeup.”
You can buy time by outsourcing unexciting or time wasting tasks to others by paying them.