Writing

Sunday night over dinner, my son, parents and I were discussing the saving / investing system we set up for our kids in the spring. The idea was/is: set a monthly budget for purchases (in their case, mostly online movies, [...]  Read more

Dani and I have been spending a bunch of time recently thinking about the relationship between applications and infrastructure.  It’s a little bit of a chicken and egg situation.  You need infrastructure to build apps, but often times you don’t [...]  Read more

One of the greatest things Frannie and I have in common is that we get the chills from music — typically at the exact same time, triggered by the same musical… something. For me it starts  at the back of [...]  Read more

Over the past few weeks, I have varied up my computing habits a bit.  For a laptop, I have been using a Pixelbook , and I have also been spending more timing using an iPad Pro for work. What I [...]  Read more

Back in May, I had what ended up being a major hand surgery — repairing a torn tendon and in the process reconstructing the end of my pinkie by grafting tendons borrowed from my ring finger.  As a result, I [...]  Read more

A central concept on the internet is Layering .  Each of the protocols in the internet stack talks to the layer directly above and below it — new protocols can be added as long as they speak the language of [...]  Read more

In June, the SEC gave some of its most concrete guidance to date that cryptoassets can start out as centralized projects, possibly initially sold under securities laws, and eventually become “decentralized” and thus no longer sponsor-controlled, and no longer sold [...]  Read more