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It’s my last day on my breakneck swing through Europe, visiting old friends, catching up on my reading, celebrating the new year and recapping the old. Every time I travel I learn something new about the world. What I learned, or more accurately, observed, more astutely than ever before is how the great cosmopolitan capitals…

It’s worth taking a minute to read this wonderful new piece that has been making the rounds on social media. The author’s analysis of millennial “burnout” points to a relatively simple explanation: that the reason we millennials have so much trouble with small, easy, but ultimately time consuming or analog ‘life tasks’ is because we’re…

It’s day four and I’ve already hit a writing block so the best thing to do is to type through it. The idea behind the one blog post per day project, is the advice from all the best writers sums up to: “If you want to be a writer, write.” I don’t know who Epictetus…

Another day, another data breach. We have centralized our private data across a handful of so-called trusted services any of which, at any time, could be breached, and odds are will be breached. And even if the Cloud doesn’t open and rain out all of your personal data, every email or text message or tweet…

Some who have known me for a long time may find it shocking, but I have generally refrained from discussing politics in polite company in the past couple years, for what I feel are obvious reasons but will probably be discussed in a future post. However, I am currently abroad in Budapest, a city I…

Happy New Year 2019. I’ve decided to take a page out of Fred Wilson’s book and write a blog post every day, even if it’s a short one, as long as it’s meaningful. This comes on the heels of 2018’s grand experiment where I committed to, and succeeded, in posting one photo per day. I’ll…

I found out that my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Shames, died in March. I only just found out. She was probably the best teacher I ever had. It wasn’t just her love of reading, which was endearing and legendary. Every book was predictably her favorite book, even if the one before was also her favorite…

Life 1. Age really is just a number. I’ve met 15 year old adults and children in their 40’s. This observation cuts across gender and background. As I turn 30 I realize that there’s not much more to it than turning right at the end of the driveway. What really matters is where I go…

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of AMERICA. WHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another; and to assume, among the Powers Of The Earth, the separate and equal Station to which…