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.
apple Day 5: Apple keeps deleting my games and music The captain has turned off the seatbelt sign and my downloaded music is gone. What gives?
sailing Day 4: The skipper does not drive the boat To be skipper means finding good crew and delegating.
freedom Day 3: Ohio is recruiting foreigners to vote I'm not a citizen and Ohio is still recruiting me to vote.
hong kong Day 2: The slow train to Shenzhen is faster The 112 year old slow train to Shenzhen is faster than high speed rail.
productivity Day 1: My daily blogging commitment Welcome to Day 1 of my month-long public writing commitment. Follow along as I build a habit of writing and shipping in public.
bitcoin Day 0: Investing in Web3 on Bitcoin Why I'm excited to to support Xverse, the leading Bitcoin Web3 wallet, in their seed funding round.
lightning Thoughts on LightningCon Vietnam 2023 Conference takeaways on Lightning UX, payment rails, routing and more!
campaign Earnings for Charity from Wearafuckingmask.com With your support, we sold $2,205.01 of wearafuckingmask.com t-shirts and earned $529.47 in commissions and donated HK$5,000 to charity!
stacks Stacking & PoX: Economically anchoring the STX ecosystem in Bitcoin Blockstack's Stack 2.0 chain is not only cryptographically anchored in Bitcoin, but also economically anchored in Bitcoin.
technology Getting around Trump’s Tiktok & Wechat Bans How US users might get around Trump's Tiktok and Wechat bans.
stacks On Blockstack Governance & the Stacks Foundation Thoughts on governance in decentralized ecosystems and the newly created Stacks Foundation.
Coronavirus It wasn't WHO, it was you! Stop blaming WHO! Countries had plenty of time do something about the novel Coronavirus. A timeline of events from my vantage point in Hong Kong.
lifestyle The digital nomad is dead Covid-19 killed the digital nomad. Learn from their mistakes so you can plan for a sustainable remote work future.
Coronavirus Masks Mission Accomplished! Masks are mainstream. The authorities have admitted they were wrong. We won the Battle of the Masks.
technology We aren’t ready to own our own data...yet We talk a lot about users owning their own data. Data ownership means control. Having control means taking responsibility. Responsibility is a lot of work! Let me explain… For the
lifestyle Not in my backyard: a tool for living beyond your means Not-in-my-backyard-ism functions as a tool for financial leverage and taking what one can't afford.