I had my last alcoholic drink on June 29th, 1999. I was in Munich, Germany, a stop on a European trip my grandparents gave me as a high school graduation gift. I had only been drinking hard for a couple years, but by that June, I was consuming around a…

Cancer overtook my dad’s body in July, 2012. The seizure did not happen quickly. For a couple years, there were a ton of ups and downs: reduced or plateaued tumor growth, cessation of coughing, promises of healing from alternative medicine, and other fleeting signs of hope. Yet for every up…

The separated ones have invented many ‘cures’ for what they believe to be the ‘ills of the world.’ But the one thing they do not do is to question the reality of the problem.Yet its effects cannot be cured because the problem is not real. -A Course in Miracles In…

Apparently, there’s an artificial intelligence (AI) revolution afoot — a revolution made possible by ChatGPT, a chatbot able to convincingly mimic human speech and writing. I became aware of ChatGPT after seeing a few articles about a trend of student papers being written by the bot. Though still buggy, the…

For most of 2021, Beyond Meat Inc’s (BYND) stock price hovered around $130. As of this writing, the stock sits around $12. Neither deals with China, McDonald’s, and Pepsi, nor new meat-like steak and sausage forms, nor endorsements by Kim Kardashian or Kevin Hart appear to be able to rescue…

ProPublica recently published a piece about real estate consulting firm RealPage and their YieldStar software. YieldStar gives landlords the information they need to find the highest rents a market can bear. Author Heather Vogell writes: To arrive at a recommended rent, the [YieldStar] software deploys an algorithm — a set…

Imagine you’re camping in the remote wilderness. It’s night and a storm is moving in. You go to set up your tent, but the ground is too hard to sink the stakes by hand. What do you do? Do you attempt to run back to civilization in a dark storm…

For about 30 years, a large portion of my family and I descended upon Longboat Key, a small holiday enclave on Florida’s west coast. …

In October 2016, I went to the first MIPIM Proptech Summit in New York City. Though unaware of it at the time, the conference was a highpoint of investor and founder confidence in the belief that technology would disrupt and transform the profoundly broken, analogue real estate industry. At the…