Politics
gm, The post preview picture is from Yemen today. There's so much unrest in the world. Millions are calling out Israel's illegal war. UN Special Rapporteur: Israel can’t claim ‘right of self-defence’Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, has said that Israel cannot claim the right
Field Notes
Today I was in Glenwood Springs seeing my friends Tommy and Tina Divel at Grande Optics. Tommy and I were talking about what makes a great small business and why great small businesses are what the world needs. I was telling Tommy how I've never in all my
Web3
Went to see Oppenheimer yesterday with our son Justin at the IMAX. BTW. Did Jobs get "i" from IMAX? The movie is a must see. Anyway, on the way back Justin blew my mind. He turned me on. In his words and his way he showed me that
heyheyrenee
I wrote this in 2013 on heyheyrenee. I wouldn't change a word. Here's a great piece by Kevin Drum on Mother Jones on what the not too distant future will look like, technology wise. It's about what technology will do, the jobs that'
Social Media
Howdy, Before I go on, I'm in no way pronouncing doom for crypto. But there's so many problems. People have got to see them and make changes. First, read this: https://aidenlab.org/bitcoin.pdf From the report: "Although bitcoin was designed to rely on
Social Media Is A Social Disease
Here's a post I wrote in 2020. I'm posting again here, in it's entirety. #### The beginning of the end was early on in dotcom, when newspapers sucked up to the search and ad engines. Newspapers should have put up paywalls. But instead they listened
Social Media Is A Social Disease
Last week I read that Mailchimp banned crypto companies from using their platform. It turns out that Mailchimp's policies specifically prohibit crypto companies. I've written before that I don't get why the crypto world relies so heavily on centralized services, or Twitter. This is
Social Media Is A Social Disease
From my keyboard it appears that 99.9% of NFT projects rely on Twitter for their marketing, or to get their message out. I think this is a big mistake. A much better approach is build all marketing and messaging on their website. If you have something to promote or
Social Media Is A Social Disease
This week's Medium post from young brother Insight [https://twitter.com/NFT1nsight] points out some glaring contradictions of the crypto world. Namely, IMO, that on balance the community doesn't practice what it preaches re: decentralization. NFTs: on identity and platformsNFTs are taking the digital world by
Music
The Western United States is on fire and the hottest months still ahead. Here in the mountains of CO it hasn't rained in 2 years. Snowpack is down 40% over the past 60 years. We're one lightening strike from our homes burning to the ground. The
Field Notes
The beginning of the end was early on in dotcom, when newspapers sucked up to the search and ad engines. Newspapers should have put up paywalls. But instead they listened to the mob, who told them, “paying for stuff is out. Now you give away what you have and sell
Social Media Is A Social Disease