Writing

It's been really fun learning about the crypto space while building Gravity  and Middleman . As I've been working on these projects, I've been keeping a list of observations about what it's like to dev in the crypto space. Here [...]  Read more

This weekend I built a tool called Gravity . The TLDR is that it's like Gravatar, but for Ethereum. If you want to skip ahead, you can go to gravity.cool  and create your own Gravatar. Okay, more on Gravity: Right [...]  Read more

I read the ESPN piece on Kevin Love and other NBA players’ mental health issues this morning. My son had sent it to me yesterday. The bit about his panic attack during an Atlantic Hawks game, initially disclosed in this [...]  Read more

I am fifty-seven years old today. As I have done for the last twenty years, I plan to spend the day at the beach surrounded by family. Birthdays don’t bum me out. I look forward to them. They are a [...]  Read more

Getting to something first has tremendous advantages but also comes with a bunch of challenges. I was thinking about this yesterday as I was setting up a couple iPads to be used around our house as smart home controllers. The [...]  Read more

We had torrential rains last night and around 3am, I woke up and realized that I had left the soft top open on our Jeep Wrangler. The lighting was coming down hot and heavy so I waited it out and [...]  Read more

In yesterday's episode of The Indicator , Planet Money’s Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia buy their first CryptoKitty. You can listen to the episode here . Just the first step of creating a Coinbase account and buying ETH took [...]  Read more

I’ve written about this Android feature before. I am a bit obsessed about it. When you are in a place where music is playing, the Android operating system notifies you what is “now playing.” I have two things I would [...]  Read more

The disclosure police have been making noises in the comments here at AVC and on Twitter that suggest I do not disclose conflicts and other important information when I write about things I am close to here at AVC. I [...]  Read more