STATUS: Retired Hero As a member of the famed “Pittsburgh Lumber Company” of the 1970s, Al Oliver helped the Pittsburgh Pirates win five National League Eastern Division titles. If he wasn’t forced to retire due to collusion by Major League Baseball, there is a good chance he could have went on to amass over 3,000 […]
Tournament Bracket Curation
Suppose you’re at an art gallery and you want to buy two paintings to hang on the wall in your office. There are nine paintings to choose from. How would you choose? One thing you might try is what I call tournament bracket curation. You pit the paintings against each other two at a time […]
The Potential of DNA Nanotechnology
DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA nanotechnology involves creating artificial nucleic acid structures. There is enormous technological potential in doing this. DNA nanotechnology represents a very deep rabbit hole that I don’t want to fall into. Instead, I’ll just peer into the rabbit hole from the surface and provide Wikipedia links in case you’re interested […]
Finish Your Content
Do you have a backlog of books, ebooks, articles, podcasts, videos, and other media content that you want to consume, but don’t have the time? Be honest… will you ever have the time? It’s time to clean things up and get your media backlog under control. Here’s how you can do it. Round up all […]
The Technology Behind Bitcoin
To understand how bitcoin transactions work, you must first understand blockchains. The blockchain is like a ledger that keeps records of bitcoin transactions.
Real World to Virtual Conversion
I used to have a large collection of books that I took pride in. However, I’ve completely switched to ebooks now. My physical book collection, for the most part, is just gathering dust on the bookshelf now. We should have some type of ebook conversion service to legally convert a physical book collection to an […]