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2 Jul 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Reimagining the world of securities lending when smart contracts work at scale and we all keep more of our money. There was an article in the June 10th edition of the Wall Street Journal entitled, How Investing Giants Gave Away Voting Power Ah...
1 Jul 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Has behavioral economics inspired marketing run its course? The Austrian school of economists make the case that it has and offer an alternative. I’ve been exploring the concept of “crypto-marketing” for almost five years now. All along, I tho...
30 Jun 2020 4 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: With everyone effectively online, the Web2.0 battlefield changes from growth that rides the wave of market expansion to competition annihilation. In When Tailwinds Vanish, The Internet in the 2020s, John Luttig helped me step away from the day...
26 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: say one thing in a blog post, then do the exact opposite. That’s pretty much the definition. Yesterday was a bit of a tough day for me. Only three hours after I hit “publish” on a post called “Respect for Time,” I completely disrespected someo...
25 Jun 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: How we spend our own time is up to each of us. How we choose to spend the time of others requires thoughtfulness. After college, I lived in Germany (Frankfurt) for 1 year and then in Japan for 2 years. On one of my first days in Germany, I was...
24 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Your day may not go as planned, but if you win the morning, you increase your odds of success. You also feel better One of the things you learn in the practice of meditation is that your mind IS going to wander. While I haven’t asked him about...
23 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Imagining a future where a blockchain certifies your competence as a driver and the end of mandated driving instruction. My daughter is going for her driving test this afternoon. I’ve been training with her for 9 months. We’ve done urban roads...
22 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl:dr; My outlook is not as rational or balanced as I thought. Neither is yours. Awareness of both is good. Affecting change is only possible by one of us. My father and I were chatting about current events. He had expressed curiosity about whether w...
19 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
We can do X or we can do Y. But, maybe we could actually do Z. A friend of mine recently gave some great advice? “whenever you have a choice in front of you that seems to have two options, take a moment and come up with a third choice.” Binary thin...
18 Jun 2020 4 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: I’m a notary public and my own existence in this capacity is cause for self-loathing. I’m a Notary Public in Maryland. It happened as a kind of joke. I was sitting in my sister’s apartment about 9 years ago when she told me she was applying to...
