Matt

  • Creating Structure

    Leaving my job and subsequently taking a month long vacation to visit family and reset was quite disruptive to my usual routines. Focusing again on my entrepreneurial adventures is very different now that I’m back.  On the one hand it is amazing to be fully in control of my schedule, I can allocate time between…

  • Work in progress Beer Fermentation Cabinet

    After thinking about how to make better beer at home last week and a successfully brewed cerveza I wanted to up my game and build a fermentation box to lager. The number one objective is to make the brewing process with the least amount of effort – no lifting heavy things, transferring fluids around as…

  • Brewing Beer Again

    It’s been a while since I last did any homebrew beer but for some reason I had the motivation to put on a new brew when I got back from vacation.  Nothing fancy, just a simple kit. The one new piece of equipment I got was a conical fermenter.  The Fermentasaurus is a pretty neat…

  • Driving from Ottawa to St. John’s

    Over the last week I have been driving 3000km across Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to kick off a summer vacation.  We took the opportunity to stop and see a few things along the way. So many things to see in this country. Quebec City was a particular surprise. It was a beautiful…

  • Trying Windows

    Time for me to get a new Laptop and for the last couple of months I have been delaying on the purchase. I’ve been a Mac user for the last 12 years and used Linux before that. The last time I actively used a Windows PC was around the year 1999. So a switch to…

  • More Exercise Needed

    Since I stopped running due to ankle pain several years ago nothing has really filled the void of regular exercise to keep me fit and healthy. Every now and then I do use percussion massage guns to ease my back pain, but the pain due to no exercise just comes back. For several months now I’ve…

  • iPad Sketching

    A couple of weeks ago I went out and got an iPad; the new 2018 model that works with the Apple Pencil. It finally checked all the boxes for me for a good tablet at a reasonable price and could replace my 5 year old Google Nexus tablet. The feature that really piqued my interest…

  • Hypothesis Driven Business

    Over the last 5 years I’ve had the opportunity to integrate and work with about a dozen different companies – some big, some small, every one of them different from the others. One interesting approach that I have experienced over the last few months by one of those businesses is to take a scientific approach…

  • Personal Cloud

    It kind of snuck up on me a bit over the years. I have got a rather decent collection of computers running for various different side projects over the years. At home I run a local NAS file server 24/7 for local backups and as a shared place to access files from other computers and…

  • Blockchain is more profound than you realize

    After understanding the basics of handling money and what is a broker and what do they mainly do, I have now been getting serious about crypto-currencies and blockchain technology at an accelerating pace for several years now. The more I think about the implications of a decentralized protocol for money and the exchange of value…