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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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AI is making my head spin
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…
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Dark Matter, Chaos, and the Quest for a Better World
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…
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History Series – Part Two
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…
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History Series – Part One
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…
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Multi-level Marketing Madness – A follow up
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…
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The Lily of the Field and the bird of the air
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…
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The Rule of 40
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…
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The century of self
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…
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You are what you eat
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…
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The right to Privacy and why “I’ve got nothing to hide” is a terrible argument
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…
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Be eccentric
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…
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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…
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Cooking on a snowy day
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…
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Painting – The progressive crushing of expectations
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…
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Multi-level Marketing Madness
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…
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4WD Arduino Car
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…
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The Economy – A Ranking on a Scale of Peach Bellini to Black Hole
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…
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Mastering indistraction
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…
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Poison Pills and Hostile Takeovers
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…
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Flash and substance in tech
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…
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On deconstruction
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…
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On Reading
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…
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Compounding Knowledge – Vol. 1 – Metal tools
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…
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Year in Review – 2021
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…
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Model of the Voyager
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…
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Sounds smart, doesn’t work
*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…
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Water extraction
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…
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Asbestos Abatement
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…
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Contagion on social media
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…
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Measuring distance in space
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…
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A thought on conspiracies
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…
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An archive of the wild events involving GameStop
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,…
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PEG ratio for SaaS
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…
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Spring Rolls
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…
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Building a miniature working Vitascope
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…
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Ether vs. Bitcoin. Why I chose Ether.
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…
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Cranberry Roasted Chicken
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…
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French Bread
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…
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Ginger Beer
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…
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Beef Jerky
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…