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This blog has no audience. I don’t promote it in any way. Topics range from history, business, faith, philosophy, and even long exposés on an evil pyramid scheme. Enjoy.
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It’s been over three years since I posted on my site about some interesting but nascent new technology called generative AI. It was blowing our collective minds by writing a few paragraphs on our behalf, and generating images for us. Things have changed since then. Simple image generation has graduated to video. AI can handle…
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My wife and I watched Dark Matter recently on AppleTV+. I happened to read the book years ago and wrote this articulate and pithy review, which drips with my usual charm and charisma. We really enjoyed the show, and I’d recommend it. A particular scene stuck in my head, and oddly enough, it clicked with…
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This post is a continuation of a series of posts I am writing that summarize major historical events since the fall of the Western Roman Empire, with a focus on Europe. You can read the first post here. Context We pick up from part one around the year 550 AD. Some of the major civilizations…
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Preface I recently finished reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It was an incredible book that I highly recommend reading. Despite its length of nearly 2000 pages, it was thoroughly fascinating to read and I can say with sincerity, it was a page turner. The book detailed Hitlers conquest of countries such…
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I’m excited to write a follow up to a post I wrote in 2022 about a Multi-level marketing company named Elomir. As a quick recap, Elomir was selling a tongue strip product (like a Listerine strip) that they claimed had incredible results. Testimonials for the product included claims such as improved mood, seeing colours more…
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The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air is the title of a short book written by Søren Kierkegaard, who was a philosopher and theologian known as the Father of Existentialism. In this book, he examines a passage of scripture that talks about lilies and birds, and shares lessons we can learn…
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What is the Rule of 40? The Rule of 40 is a SaaS (Software as a Service) metric that says that a company’s revenue growth rate, plus its profit margin should be greater than or equal to 40. Taking both revenue growth and profitability rates into account provides a nice holistic picture of a company’s health. Below…
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Meet K. K lives in a modern house with a lot of windows that always have bright rays of sunshine shining in. She wears impeccably white satin clothes that are constantly blowing in the wind because all her windows are open. K starts every morning by gently rubbing some Dove moisturizing lotion on her face…
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It’s hard to admit this as the highly autonomous, individualistic people that we are in the western world, but we are shaped by the culture, content, and environments we spend our time in. As much as I’d like to believe that my true authentic self can absorb all the influencing forces around me and not…
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Fifteen years ago, when Facebook was still a product people enjoyed, and new social media companies were sprouting up, we were all so excited to be apart of the ride. We’d been accumulating photos of our Frappuccino’s and videos of our butts while we squat at the gym with nowhere to post them until now.…
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Through many hours of detailed scientific research, I have come up with a new theory, that I believe I have sufficiently proven with smoke, mirrors, and hopefully more writing then you will read. Hypothesis: As any form of content (call it X) approaches the limit of popularity (P), X become increasingly bland and exponentially less…
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An intro to emerging tech in AI, and why we might want to prepare ourselves for change ahead of time
As humans, we’ve generally agreed and adapted to the fact that computers are better than us at chess, computation, and storing knowledge. But not everyone has mentally prepared for just how much AI will impact all of our lives in the near future. There are many opinions about how AI will affect the world in…
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We were planning to have some friends over for dinner, but we ended up getting a fair bit of snow that day, so they asked to push dinner to the following week. So instead of having them over, we decided to make a video of us cooking the meal we would have ate, so we…
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I bought a paint by numbers set. The picture is supposed to look like the image below when done. At least that is what the cover image on the product was when I bought it. For your entertainment, I will document the process of my turning that picture into the dollar store version of the…
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There is a relatively new Multi-level marketing (MLM) company starting called Elomir. It has only recently launched which gives us the unique ability to watch the destruction and manipulation starting from the ground floor.
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To anyone reading this who is a developer, or an electrical engineer, or one of those weird people who is a bank teller or something as their day job, but also tinkers in their garage and somehow knows out how to build a 3D printer or something, you may think this is lame. But I…
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Take a look at your investment portfolio. If it looks anything like mine (majority red), you may feel the need to rant a little. I certainly feel the need. I am going to do what anyone who has been negatively impacted by politics or the economy would do. That is, take zero personal responsibility and…
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One of my favourite podcasts is The Knowledge Project, which is hosted by the same people who host my favourite site, fs.blog. I listened to an episode where they hosted Nir Eyal, author of a book called Indistractible. I thought the podcast was intriguing and offered a lot of advice for how we think about…
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One of the big stories circulating the business world right now is about Elon Musk and his desire to acquire Twitter. Musk has been critical about their free speech policies and is concerned about censorship. I think he also sees potential in the company such such as diversifying their revenue out of primarily ad revenue.…
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If you are a tech worker, with a network of people in tech, you probably have to trudge through thousands of irritating humble brag posts on LinkedIn. Incredibly honoured to be joining X tech company today as a manager of product to help scale the worlds access to checklist software. The team at X is…
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Have you noticed a lot of people are talking about deconstruction lately? I have. It seemed to spring up in many of my circles in the middle of the pandemic. Perhaps it’s a function of forcefully cutting out routines from our lives. Or maybe, after two months of lockdowns and watching all the content available…
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Just before I started reading So Good They Can’t Ignore You, I was trying to articulate to my wife why I hesitate sometimes to read business or self help books, but was struggling to get my point across. She started making fun of me and asked if it wasn’t an old enough book for me…
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This is the first instalment of a series of posts I am writing. The idea is to walk through and learn some of the most important advancements in knowledge that have occurred over the centuries. The full intro to the series and a list of all posts on the subject can be found here. When…
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It’s been a year since I launched this site (Dec 8, 2020). This site has expanded a lot since then. I’m in FP&A so I love analytics and want to track my contributions to this site over time and see how my contributions change year over year. This year I published 84 pages/posts to the…
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I got a model kit from a company called Metal Earth. They give you very thin sheets of metal that you remove and piece together different models. This one was of Nasa’s Voyager spacecraft. The model was one of the more frustrating ones I have done. Some of the pieces were insanely small. Some pieces…
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*Note. I wrote this post in March 2021, but forgot to publish it. So a little late, but posting now. To start this article off, I’d ask that you please read this article entitled: Should you buy Ethereum Soon? I’m no fool. I am very aware that you didn’t actually read that article even though…
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How much water do we have in the first place? I’m lucky to live in a quaint little neighbourhood called Canada. Canada has more lakes than all of the other countries of the world combined and hosts about 7% of all the freshwater available on earth. The city I live in also happens to rain…
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Did you know I almost started an asbestos abatement (removal) company back when I was doing my undergrad? A friend of mine approached me with the opportunity. He knew a realtor who owned about 10 houses, all of which had asbestos. My friend wanted me to get certified to remove asbestos with him so that…
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You may have heard about a study Facebook was involved in several years ago in which two control groups had their exposure to either positive content or negative content reduced on their timelines. Then, users were monitored to see how their posts on social media changed as a result of less exposure to positive or…
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As you know, space is quite large. Picture the biggest skyscraper you have ever seen. Space is at least seven times bigger than that. Considering we are for the most part stuck here on earth, I’ve always been curious how distance is measured in space. So I am going to look it up, and write…
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Do you know anyone who is nice, smart, caring, and overall just very normal? But then one day after a glass or two of wine they start talking about how Bill Gates is part of the new world order and plans to make us all infertile to stop overpopulation? You chuckle because you think they…
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Watching all of the events unfold related to GameStop (GME) has been mesmerizing. The spectacular rise of GME’s stock price is due to a combination of brilliance, idiocy, and memes. But there is also some interesting cultural phenomenons being stirred up as a result. You can read wallstreetbets and pass the thousands of ridiculous posts…
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I learned a new metric called the PEG (Price/Earnings Growth ratio) which is a metric that adjusts P/E ratios by dividing them by earnings growth. Jamin Ball (Partner at Altimeter Capital) suggested on Twitter that we could use a similar formula for SaaS companies by taking EV / NTM (next twelve months) Revenue / NTM…
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My wife and I worked on some homemade spring rolls to ring in the new year. It’s a bit of a process to make and in my excitement/ravenous hunger, I ate them all before remembering to take a picture of the finished product! So enjoy a stock photo of the finished product to help you…
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I got this model kit from a company called Rokr. It’s a miniature working Vitascope. It comes with a film reel and a small dynamo that powers a flashing light when cranked. The light projects an animation of Charlie Chaplin dancing on the wall. It took about 6 hours to assemble. I worked slowly and…
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A few years ago when the first wave of hype was happening around bitcoin and other coins, I made a choice to buy ether instead of bitcoin. By the numbers, that was a poor choice. While both are up, bitcoin has grown at a much faster rate. Type EOY 2017 Time of writing Growth Rate…
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Every now and then I like to film myself while making dinner. Basically I set my phone down in different places while I chop veggies or season meat and sometimes hold the camera in one hand while I stir or put food in the oven (shaky cam is a credited film technique ok). The thing…
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It’s amazing that you can put some flour, salt, water, and yeast in a bowl and then throw it an a hot square, and a little bit later it comes out as warm delicious bread. I made my first attempt at bread a couple weeks ago. I used this recipe. We don’t have a stand…
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This is a fun and easy drink to make. It can be alcoholic or not, so it’s great drink for anybody. I found a simple recipe online and then started tweaking it to suit my taste. By my fourth attempt, I feel like I have a recipe that I really enjoy and would repeat. That…
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Beef Jerky is one of those luxury foods that I only ever get during the holidays, but I crave it often. One day it dawned on me that I am a ‘strong and independent adult who don’t need no store bought jerky’ and can just make my own. I used a flank steak as my…