The Truth About Giving Zero Fucks
You can successfully give zero fucks about people’s opinion while giving unlimited fucks about people.
Toastmasters Public Speaking Demo – Nov 4, 2022
Good public speaking demo at this evening’s Capital City Toastmasters – Midtown Sacramento in-person meeting! Two guests, and a 3rd that wished to participate but we ran out of time. Address sweaty palms and a flush face with an equally-physical response: a deep breath. It allows you to mentally reset, adds a purposeful pause, and…
Crypto Inheritance Planning
Letter to Loved Ones: A Template for Your Crypto Estate Planning by Pamela Morgan Inheritance Planning for Cryptocurrencies: 3 Steps in 3 Minutes by Pamela Morgan
Advanced Health Care Directive Forms
Online forms for making end-of-life decisions, including Do Not Resuscitate (DNR), organ donation, life-support, etc: Creating an Advance Directive: A Step-By-Step Guide from Death With Dignity Advance Health Care Directive Form for California (PDF with fields that can be filled out online)
Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition) – Programming the Open Blockchain by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Free version available on GitHub
Dodgeball Is Training For Life
Who knew that out of all the childhood school playground games, dodgeball would the most realistic introduction to real-life. In the game dodgeball, the ball is thrown at you hard and fast. It tags you. Knocks you down. Leaves welts on your skin. But you survive. You learn to duck and slip some of the…
Bitcoin Q & A #1
A Facebook commenter asked 2 great questions (note: I’m only answering for Bitcoin, not *crypto*. As the saying goes: Bitcoin, not crypto): Question: Can we still use crypto when the private key is lost? Answer: Private Keys are like you owning your own bank and owning the keys to the front door, back door, and…
Protecting Your Bitcoin
With Bitcoin you are your own bank and you are responsible for your own Operational Security (OpSec). When I was a child my parents and grandparents taught me the responsibility of locking and unlocking the front and back doors to the house. They also taught me how to lock and unlock the doors on their…
The Melancholy Connection Of Music
Gerry Rafferty, Right Down the Line This is one of a handful of songs that instantly spells me through a melancholy connection to when I first started to notice music that was outside of my Mom and grandparent’s influence. This style of music, soft rock, would have never been played at my Mom’s or grandparent’s…
Family Heirlooms
Family heirlooms are just a smaller version of The Louvre, The Smithsonian, The MOMA. A touchstone of human experience expressed through your family’s branch on the tree of life.