immigrants
Day: 16 Diaspora have a bone to pick
Diaspora often have a bone to pick with their former homes...that's often why they left...take their views with a grain of salt!
hong kong
Day 15: Employer tax withholding is a scam
Employer tax withholding is a scam used to get people to pay heavy taxes without feeling the pain.
hong kong
Day 14: Behave like the society you want to live in
Hong Kongers' kindness makes this a great place to live.
Newsletter
✍️ Week 2 of my writing challenge
Hi friends! We are wrapping up week two of my month-long daily writing challenge. Posts from Day 4 through Day 13 are linked below. If you missed the first four posts, you can find them here in the previous email. I feel like I'm really getting into the
freedom
Day 13: Rent seeking medical tests
I'm dreaming of a world where medical tests are cheap and automated.
bitcoin
Day 12: Hot and not bitcoin technologies
An informal poll of a Hong Kong ordinals meetup about which bitcoin tech is interesting and which is not.
payments
Day 11: Online vs offline in person payments
In person payment systems that require users to be online fall apart when the network stops working. A hotpot experience.
language
Day 10: 1 year of Duolingo Italian
Looking back on a year of Duolingo Italian. Have I learned anything?
lightning
Day 9: Stop trying to make Bitcoin in brick & mortar happen
Bitcoin in brick & mortar has failed. The Lightning community should stop wasting time chasing in person payments.
USA
Day 8: America is not knowing how much you're going to pay
The paradox of a free market where no one knows the price.
productivity
Day 7: iPad Mini as an eBook reader
Ditch your Kindle, get an iPad Mini...the perfect eBook reader.
freedom
Day 6: The intelligent investor was banned from owning gold
The intelligent investor was banned from owning the most ancient of asset classes and he thought it was funny.