Matt
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3D Printing
For Christmas this year, I got a 3D printer to add to my ever busier home office. My hope with the printer is to create more in 2019. And I have a backlog of ideas for things I want to make with it. I hit a wall with my bike design a couple months ago…
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Velocity vs Speed
This past year has been one of the most interesting I’ve had. Quitting my job gave me the time to pursue a wide variety of interests. And I did use the time this year to get a lot of unique things done – blockchain development, built a chat/finance app, wrote a space strategy plan/planned a…
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Designing a Bike
I love bikes, want to be able to use them more often than I do, and have been looking for something to do as a hands on project that doesn’t use the computer so much. Building my own bike seems like a neat and unique project. When thinking about what I would want in a…
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Two years of Bullet Journaling
It was two years ago that I learned about a system of keeping an agenda/journal that really made sense to me. Bullet Journal is a flexible way to organize a plain physical journal so that you get exactly what you want out of the practice without the rigid space limitation and structure of pre-printed agendas…
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No More News
I have been finding myself increasingly frustrated with the amount of American news that I see as a Canadian. On many topics it seems like I know more about what is happening in another country than in my own. A sad state of affairs. Most of these things are actually meaningless to me personally. Decisions…
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Scary Future
If the climate models recently published by the IPCC are accurate, then things are not looking great for the future. Indeed, if we continue on the same path that we are currently on then it is unlikely that my daughter will live long enough to die of old age. When rising ocean levels force a…
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Soft Launching
Last week I did a soft launch of the revamped Blockagram platform that I’ve been working on for the last while. Blockagram is a service that allows you to send messages to people for marketing purposes with a small amount of Bitcoin to incentivize them to both subscribe to your marketing list, and act on…
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Applying AI to Human Learning
Last night I was attempting to learn a little bit of Chinese after being inspired from a series of documentaries and travel vlogs (ChopStick Travel) that I’ve been taking in over the last 3-4 weeks. Anyway, I opened up DuoLingo and was quickly disappointed. Then I tried Memrise, which was slightly better, but it suffered…
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New Blockchains
Over the last week I ran into a difficult problem to solve with my B lockagram application that I have been working on for the last few months. It required some deep thinking. I spent three days with some sensory deprivation to really focus my thoughts and avoid even the slightest distractions. An eye mask…
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Media Distractions
“Are you distracted by breaking news? Then take some leisure time to learn something good, and stop bouncing around.” – Marcus Aurelius It can be difficult to block the media from your view. Over the last year or more I have been trying to limit my access. Several years ago, I was having a conversation…
