A picture is worth a thousand words. And herein lies the problem. An image transmits information under the surface, below consciousness. You can be disarmed, misinformed, manipulated if you don’t know what you are looking at. Catfished, as the modern…
I am about to drop some Bitcoin bombs on Nostr. What could go wrong? I am the owner of two NFTs. One on Ethereum and the other on Bitcoin. The Bitcoin one was accidental. I just wanted to see a…
Time is money, money is time. In math, this interplay is known as the commutative property. In this case, I would like to coin the operation of Bitcoin as the commutative property of time. It is a timechain holding money…
I grew up in a family that espoused the Victorian dictum that children should be seen not heard. This was and still is antithetical to my natural way of being, much to the dismay of my mother, but thankfully not…
Growing up in the west coast of Africa, in the small but prosperous nation of La Cote D’Ivoire, I was keenly aware of how expensive electricity was, thanks to my Dad. He would often give me, the eldest of four…
Society is inherently a bottoms-up organism. It is alive, sentient, and fractal. Similar to a branch that is just a smaller version of a tree, a tree within a tree if you will, a person is a localized encapsulation of…
I once read somewhere that having a large budget or abundant access to the latest fashion counterintuitively leads to a decline in taste or sense of style. Apparently, the very act of having to do more with less, devise a…
Dear reader, did you know that the Eiffel tower has outstayed its welcome? It has committed the mortal sin of not exiting gracefully. To the French, that is such a “faux pas” and yet there it stands, bright eyed, bushy…