end of year review

Reflecting on 2023

Random Observation/Comment #827: Every year, I look forward to that time between Christmas and New Years where nothing and everything happens. So far so good. In 2023, War and AI took over. I pivoted my professional work towards building AI workshops and started a company (Wanessa Labs, Inc) to cover some fun side projects. I think we live in a...

Reflecting on 2020

Random Observation/Comment #691: Black Mirror really did a scarily good job with this new immersive season. In 2020, we lived through the calm before the storm – a war fought in sweatpants. Traveled to: San Francisco (in Jan), Massapequa Park (in March), and Colorado (in July). And then literally nowhere else. Triumphantly: moved to Denver during a pandemic, did a...

Reflecting on 2018

Random Observation/Comment #610: There’s always more things to do. In 2018, I embraced fatherhood: Traveled to: Boston, Toronto, Dallas, Baltimore, New Jersey and Upstate weekend trips, DC, Pittsburgh, Philly, Dublin, Sydney, and Singapore (all for work) Triumphantly: embraced fatherhood through swim class and little gym weekends, wrote Blockchain4Babies and ABCs of Blockchains, became an accredited investor, helped with Corda Enterprise...

Day 30: Reflecting on 2012

Day 30: Reflecting on 2012

Random Observation/Comment #317: Success, as a state of being, has been compared too much to our social norms. People think they’re successful when they have the right amount of money in their bank account, live in a house, driving a new car, working at an important high paying job as a CEO, and being admired by all.  This is wrong....