Thinning out the sea of fools, frauds and scammers — I spend a lot of time reading and watching content that concerns itself with Bitcoin , Ethereum and cryptocurrency more generally. …

Not everything is a cryptocurrency — we should call things by their real names — The erroneous use of cryptocurrency as a catch-all term for every token in existence is not just inaccurate, it’s fundamentally wrong. …

Plato’s ancient wisdom can teach us how to be better people in the digital age — People on the internet are assholes. If you’ve ever scrolled through a politically oriented Twitter thread or a Facebook post, you’ll come across some impressive spectacles of offensive language. …

How to invest in the companies that are good for the world, not just your portfolio. — In 1469, 20-year-old Lorenzo de’ Medici took over the Medici Bank, one of the most respected financial institutions in Europe. Lorenzo possessed a great talent for business, money-lending and investment. …

The game is rigged everyday people — it’s time to start paying real wages — Conservative commentators have been quick to blame the unemployment crisis on a variety of emotionally driven factors — usually dumping the blame for current under-staffing and economic turmoil on individual Americans. Those of us not rushing back to their pre-pandemic jobs are denounced as “lazy dole bludgers”, who are “unwilling…

Or cement your place on the wrong side of history — 6am. April 12th, 1961 On a launchpad in Southern Kazakhstan a Soviet rocket called Vostok 1 is being prepped for take off. Strapped inside a small capsule atop Vostok sits a 27-year-old Russian astronaut named Yuri Gagarin. While the lead engineers and astrophysicists monitoring the launch from the safety of…

Free YouTube, actual privacy and real money for your attention — The way that we, as web-faring human beings currently use the internet is downright terrible. It’s an open secret that every last byte of your data is currently being sold to the highest bidder. A lot of people seem to think this is just an inextricable fact of internet usage…

A comprehensive breakdown of bad economics and psychobabble — Jordan Peterson’s recent podcast on Bitcoin could have been something brilliant. Instead, we bear witness to a 90 minute conversation between Dr Peterson and a group of fan boys that demonstrate a severely distorted understanding of economics, psychology and history. Dr Peterson introduces the crew of bitcoin enthusiasts: Gigi, John…

Entrepreneurial success is not formulaic nor repeatable — “Entrepreneurship is dead. And we have killed it. Who will wipe the blood off us?” — Friedrich Nietzsche Entrepreneurship is no longer a term that can be used to describe a frontier of insatiable geniuses and trailblazing renegades obsessed with innovation and the improvement of the world around them. It…