There’s a persistent belief that “the authorities” won’t spy on or harass you unless you’re guilty. Well, I’ve learned otherwise, and I’ll state up-front that I’ve never been arrested, so my experiences in this regard have been a real eye-opener, because I’ve been led to believe that the good guys…

On Tami Pudina’s Hyperdrive Anthropology podcast I recently shared how threatening people into action is often the only thing that works. Well-meaning “colonizers” tend to camp in the “solution space” because they are monetarily rewarded for being the savior, and they end up inadvertently sabotaging the work of others, otherwise…

A young woman visits a psychic, and the old woman pulls a few cards, examines the young woman’s sinewy hands with some discernable trepidation, and eventually looks squarely into the young woman’s eyes for a few moments. Then the old woman releases the young woman’s hands, closes her eyes, and…

There’s a few substantial advantages of physical labor over the purely intellectual, one of them being the ironic benefit of getting out of your body so you can better explore abstract concepts using tangible metaphor. Today I’m using a sledgehammer and breaker bar to transform an unnecessarily-large concrete footing for…

Here’s a great example of why most “crypto dudes” are terrible customers, expecting tech for free, but unwilling to pay for it. It’s not exactly their fault, by the way: it’s my contention that these cheapskates are a byproduct of the “Ponzi of crypto.” I served as CTO for a…

Because folks are issuing grand new year proclamations, I want to provide a subtle reminder of how big things ACTUALLY happen. We’ve been asked how we managed to build a large concrete skatepark in the middle of Portland, without formal permission, and therefore: illegally. The answer: one bag at a…

The other day I shared something about how a “one bag at a time” execution methodology helps accomplish a large endeavor through a dogged, bite-size commitment to execution. The example of “one bag at a time” referred to 90-pound bags of cement, used one at a time to build a…

In 2017 Bitnation received an award previously given to Twitter, Spotify, and Siri, which is massive considering that at the time; the company didn’t even have an app. And without having delivered an app, Bitnation received massive media attention from BBC, Forbes, Russia Today (RT), The Economist, The Telegraph, Bloomberg…

“It’s best to be first to market, but there’s such a thing as too early.” In which case the first to market entrant has the option to tread water, as inexpensively as possible, allowing them to hold their position, while ideally positioning themselves to succeed for the market opportunity as…