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It’s 3 pm in Houston on a late summer day. Late summer in Houston means October. I am standing on a shadeless sidewalk near the spot where the yellow school bus usually drops off my kids. The ambient air temperature is approaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit. For those of the dear readers who live in Europe [...]
Today is September 29, 2021. The European gas market has melted. It has melted up. Gas in the UK is trading at approximately $30 mBtu. Not to be left behind, the same story is unfolding in Asia. Converted to oil, this price of natural gas is something like $200 per barrel oil equivalent. Propane and [...]
There is a modern-day Greek proverb which roughly translates as “Happiness does not require hard effort but skill.” An effortless happiness of sorts, so long as you know how to do it. The kind of Greek happiness which one can obtain through skill is intuitively different from the American kind of happiness, the one famously [...]
Some people are lucky, I told my son. What does that mean, he asked. He is 10 years old, so I had to think before I could answer. Well, you know, life has constant ups and downs. When the grand sum of the ups gets huge compared to the downs, then that person is lucky. [...]
Gas Light was a theatrical play performed in London in 1938. The play was a cultural hit. It was adapted to film in 1940. A second movie followed in 1944, starring Ingrid Bergman, a classic Hollywood actress known for her luminous beauty. It is a story about crafty manipulation of an innocent victim by a [...]
In the last couple of years my interest in blockchain technology progressed from mere curiosity and spectator attitude to one of careful consideration of the practical benefits of the distributed ledger, DAOs and smart contracts. I am not the only one who thinks in that direction. There are others who are already building code to [...]
As someone who provides legal services for a living, I sometimes ask myself “What exactly is good advice?” In a business setting, the most immediate answer is that good advice helps clients avoid poor judgments in trusting other people. It could mean providing a different perspective on the situation in which the clients find themselves. [...]
