Published in The Drone·Jan 19The Benefits of a Seven Mile WalkHad a massive bowl of ice cream last night after an unpleasant (but not significant) family discussion over dinner. The ice cream was just for me, it wasn’t something I was bringing back for everyone as a treat. After dropping my thirteen year old off someplace after dinner, I headed…Walking5 min readWalking5 min read
Published in The Drone·Jan 18Getting Physical at Fifty One Years OldChloe woke up at 5:20AM this morning, ran downstairs, and started barking at the racoons in our trash can. I didn’t know this at the time. I just heard the barking downstairs. This was concerning because she’d also bark that way if an intruder entered our home with a crowbar…Aging3 min readAging3 min read
Published in The Drone·Oct 18, 2022How Northern California OGs Handle EarthquakesMy niece recently moved back to California with Sam, her Texas-born boyfriend. They were in Santa Rosa in September when the 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit. The epicenter was only a few miles away. They got a good jolt, though thankfully their home didn’t sustain any damage other than a few…Earthquake3 min readEarthquake3 min read
Oct 17, 2022Writer’s BlockI’ve told myself I’m not going to write about it, but it’s all I can write about For a long time… months at least, I’ve been trying to get something written. It turns out, I’ve got a nasty blockage. Writer’s block of the first degree. I’ve been trying to dislodge…Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Published in The Drone·Nov 19, 2020The War of Art — Dan Conway EditionMy book, Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire: My Unlikely Escape from Corporate America, was published in September 2019. By January 2020 I’d largely finished marketing it. I’d appeared on dozens of podcasts and radio stations. The book was covered by a variety of mainstream, tech and investing outlets, including The…Writing8 min readWriting8 min read
Published in The Drone·Mar 11, 2020The Death RateAs the father of three kids, my initial strong fears relating to coronavirus all involved them. I imagined one of them unable to get the ventilator they needed to survive and how I’d do anything to get it for them. Thankfully we have enough aggregate data about the virus to…4 min read4 min read
Published in The Drone·Mar 9, 2020I’m not inspired to write thisFor the past six years, my life has been a series of awesome obsessions: blogging, 2013–2015; crypto, 2015–2017; writing and publishing a book about my career and time in crypto, 2017–2019. In 2020 I’m not maniacally driven to do anything. I’m meandering down a number of interesting paths, some of…Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
Published in The Drone·Sep 11, 2019Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire: My Unlikely Escape from Corporate AmericaYou’ve received this because you subscribed to The Drone in the past. I haven’t posted there for 22 months because something insane happened to me. It wasn’t all good despite the subject line of this email. Every day since I’ve been working to get this story out. “Epic. The first…Ethereum2 min readEthereum2 min read
Published in Citizen Crypto·Sep 11, 2019Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire: My Unlikely Escape from Corporate AmericaYou’ve received this because you subscribed to Citizen Crypto in the past. I haven’t posted there for 22 months because something insane happened to me. It wasn’t all good despite the subject line of this email. Every day since I’ve been working to get this story out. “Epic. The first…Ethereum2 min readEthereum2 min read
Published in Citizen Crypto·May 14, 2018Consensus 2018, A SpectacleI’m back in my room regrouping and thinking deeply about lunch in 15 minutes after the first half day of the biggest crypto/blockchain conference in the world. A few observations: This is an incredibly diverse audience. Yes it’s still mostly white men, but the proportion of others seems to be…Cryptocurrency3 min readCryptocurrency3 min read
