Every day I am more convinced that hard work has and will continue to differentiate between the good and the great. Holding onto the idea of not giving up even though every bone in your body is telling you to. Or getting through the days (yes multiple) of not wanting…

Though I am a n00b at understanding crypto and what-not. I do times get the crazy feeling that this method of tokenizing the economy has interesting implications that trickle into my brain every so often.. First, the idea that every network (that is made up of its individual constituents) is…

Everyone is struggling. Everyone has feelings of wanting to quit, for things to change and finally go your way. And they are so strong at times that they can color your whole day. A full 12 hours of waking life spent saying “Nah — not today.” If that continues, the…

Consumers have decided to spend their money buying things that aren’t factory-produced commodities. Technology has accelerated this trend toward consuming digital goods and now arts (e.g. NFTs). However, this does leave me wondering about the role of physical goods in the future. For the first time ever, everyone in an…

Art can move you. Can make you think. Can be beautiful. Can deliver a personalized message that only you can decode. This post is from an old, dusty draft that I found in my Medium vault. The photo was taken by my now wife in a beautiful town in South Texas near the border. The photo above, though simple, asks a bunch of questions that I forgot all about now that I look at it again. How easy it is to forget interesting facts or words that meant something in the past, if but only for a moment.

When I think about scammers in crypto, I get a bad feeling. We know those people. …

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. There are many of us that need to feel productive. There is a continuous push and pull between creating value for ourselves and the world (hopefully) through working and taking time to smell the so-called flowers. …

There are several flavors of the efficient market hypothesis, and you have probably heard one version or the other when talking stonks with your fellow peers. It goes something like: All the information that is readily available is priced into the value of an asset. …

There have been countless murmurings of the metaverse for some time now, but now with Facebook’s new rebranding into Meta— those murmurs will become louder. And the public discourse will ponder the implications of this world in the metaverse. At least for now. And thus, let’s think about one future…