Writing

Fifty-eight years ago this morning, my mother went to the hospital at West Point New York and shortly thereafter I arrived on planet earth. I’ve always liked having a birthday late in August, at the tail end of the summer [...]  Read more

I have an old IRA that I don’t pay much attention to. I thought about cashing it out but the tax load to do that was too much for me to stomach. So then I thought about investing it in [...]  Read more

NFTs are so fun. This weekend I build a little chrome extension that shows you people’s NFTs when you view their profiles on twitter. Here’s the chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nft-gallery/ljfflmadhmibadcpalggnaejfibjghfl People have the best collection of NFTs. Here are some favorites [...]  Read more

The Gotham Gal and I met when we were 19 and got married when we were 25. We lived together for most of those six years before we got married. By the time we tied the knot, we knew each [...]  Read more

The comedian George Carlin has a great bit where he gives all sort of examples of ‘soft language’ that soften the original meaning of words: PTSD instead of shellshock, senior citizens instead of old people, the landfill instead of the [...]  Read more

For the past three or four years, I have been trying to reduce my air travel for a host of reasons (wellness, reducing carbon footprint, increasing productivity, etc) and I would say that this effort has largely been successful. The [...]  Read more

The news hit yesterday that WordPress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! and AOL). USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively [...]  Read more