All of us with husbands and wives are beautifully positioned to make them better human beings. Unfortunately, many of us are squandering the opportunity. Today I’d like to help fix that. With the possible exception of your children, there is no one you’re…

Block out the noise.

The title of this post, live dangerously and you live right, comes from the great author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he was ever so correct. The life of meek obedience is a sin against the self. It is a surrender of mind and passion. It’s a half life…

(Originally published in September of 2020.) As we grew up, nearly all of us were inundated with stories of our glorious national fathers, our beautiful democracies, and so on. And being young, we for the most part believed them. The system gave us our prosperity…

It's a mad mad mad mad world out there.

Jordi Visser’s case for Bitcoin’s “silent IPO,” AI as the new QE, and why 2026 will be a turning point for markets, labor, and global wealth.

Block’s latest rollout quietly delivers a full Bitcoin banking stack to millions of merchants, marking its boldest step yet toward making Bitcoin everyday money.

Millions of decent people are spending their time and energy, trying to identify the secret bad guys of the world, then to prove that they’re right. This is a serious problem, especially because monster hunts divert people with strong ethics from building…

It struck me some time ago that the people we think of as “geniuses” tend to arrive, over time, at surprisingly similar sets of conclusions. It further strikes me that a simple list of such thoughts might be of value. And so, here is a list pulled from my…

Guilt, as I’ve noted before, is the great vulnerability of the Western world. I’ll pass up an explanation of why for today, but the validity of this statement is made ever so clear by the fact that political types rise to power by championing one class or…