Death. Not a word many find much joy within. In fact, most have an immediate and negative reaction at the word. And yet, our personal distaste for a word should not cripple us or prevent us from being thoughtful about all aspects of our life. There should not be a general public logomisia towards death, or departure. Someone recently suggested the word “departure” as an alternative. I’ll be honest I’m not sure how I feel about it. My first response is a bit of a cyber elevator ding upon heari...

Death. Not a word many find much joy within. In fact, most have an immediate and negative reaction at the word. And yet, our personal distaste for a word should not cripple us or prevent us from being thoughtful about all aspects of our life. There should not be a general public logomisia towards death, or departure. Someone recently suggested the word “departure” as an alternative. I’ll be honest I’m not sure how I feel about it. My first response is a bit of a cyber elevator ding upon heari...

Today’s thought came into focus for me as I was considering the current media froth surrounding cryptocurrencies and the future of digital finance. I listen to pundits on mainstream news or hop into a Twitter Space and listen to the latest rantings of a self-proclaimed NFT degen. The actual source is irrelevant to the outcome. All this communication generates emotions and feelings, passion. The result is a lack of analytical thinking, not by intentional rejection, but through a systematic cru...

Today’s thought came into focus for me as I was considering the current media froth surrounding cryptocurrencies and the future of digital finance. I listen to pundits on mainstream news or hop into a Twitter Space and listen to the latest rantings of a self-proclaimed NFT degen. The actual source is irrelevant to the outcome. All this communication generates emotions and feelings, passion. The result is a lack of analytical thinking, not by intentional rejection, but through a systematic cru...

I wrote recently about learning from the past and I've spoken about it on a podcast a couple of times about the lessons we can learn from looking backwards as we prepare for moving forwards. And as I try to limit my future-thinking in my writing (hence, the What's Ahead Wednesday series) I think about putting my own comments into practice. What does it look like to examine our past as we set our sights on tomorrow? What can we learn? More importantly what trends can we see which whe...

I wrote recently about learning from the past and I've spoken about it on a podcast a couple of times about the lessons we can learn from looking backwards as we prepare for moving forwards. And as I try to limit my future-thinking in my writing (hence, the What's Ahead Wednesday series) I think about putting my own comments into practice. What does it look like to examine our past as we set our sights on tomorrow? What can we learn? More importantly what trends can we see which whe...

Everyone’s talking about this new statue in Miami. The new #Bitcoin Bull. The “symbol of a new financial future, a digital world with a paradigm shift in function and empowerment.” (Quick question, is it plastic? How do we think it will handle the decades of weathering to come, or did we…) Reminds me of the moment Apple introduced an iPhone with a genuine, digital sewn-leather note-taking app. Our financial future is clearly different, and better in every way - shouldn’t the statue be also?

Everyone’s talking about this new statue in Miami. The new #Bitcoin Bull. The “symbol of a new financial future, a digital world with a paradigm shift in function and empowerment.” (Quick question, is it plastic? How do we think it will handle the decades of weathering to come, or did we…) Reminds me of the moment Apple introduced an iPhone with a genuine, digital sewn-leather note-taking app. Our financial future is clearly different, and better in every way - shouldn’t the statue be also?

I was listening to the news this morning and was quite surprised to hear the following fact regarding the Bitcoin mining hash rate. When examined by country, here is the top 5 Bitcoin mining countries by hash rate:United States — 35.4%Kazakhstan — 18.1%Russia — 11.23%Canada — 9.55%Ireland — 4.68%Now I suppose, many others, like myself do not find this to be all that surprising of a fact when considering the actions China has taken to stop all crypto mining. But an interesting idea occurs to m...

I was listening to the news this morning and was quite surprised to hear the following fact regarding the Bitcoin mining hash rate. When examined by country, here is the top 5 Bitcoin mining countries by hash rate:United States — 35.4%Kazakhstan — 18.1%Russia — 11.23%Canada — 9.55%Ireland — 4.68%Now I suppose, many others, like myself do not find this to be all that surprising of a fact when considering the actions China has taken to stop all crypto mining. But an interesting idea occurs to m...

This is not a new concept, today’s bonus thought is merely an amalgamation of a couple different thoughts shared with me. And I can’t stop thinking about them. The first, I regret, I do not remember the source, but they used the title of this thought, Non-Fungible Human. And over the course of the following 24 hours I have continued to ruminate on this concept. Each of us, completely unique, 1:1 works of art. Now it’s completely possible I have been living too long in the metaverse, but I fin...

This is not a new concept, today’s bonus thought is merely an amalgamation of a couple different thoughts shared with me. And I can’t stop thinking about them. The first, I regret, I do not remember the source, but they used the title of this thought, Non-Fungible Human. And over the course of the following 24 hours I have continued to ruminate on this concept. Each of us, completely unique, 1:1 works of art. Now it’s completely possible I have been living too long in the metaverse, but I fin...