3 Feb 2018 (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Today was kind of a shitty day, truly the first of the whole trip. We were both feeling shlumpy from eating too much restaurant food and drinking too much wine (and feeling ridiculous about feeling bad from that), and we spent all morning walking in the hot sun to […]
Day 28
2 Feb 2018 (Buenos Aires, Argentina): It’s hot out there, and we duck into an ice cream shop for some afternoon helado. Leah gets pumpkin, which was surprising given how passionate she was in December about being happy we were solidly past peak-pumpkin (the absurd spike of pumpkin-flavored products that sweeps across America in September […]
Day 27
1 Feb 2018 (Buenos Aires, Argentina): I got my hair cut and beard trimmed today at this place (translation: The Black Troll). My barber didn’t speak any English but also kept asking me questions about life in New York and my luna de miel. It was definitely a stretch for my Spanish (I’ve never had […]
Strong Deductions and Bitcoin
300 years ago, if I heard my brother’s voice around the corner of a building, then you’d better believe he was right around that corner speaking those words. Nowadays, he could be on another continent on speakerphone, or it could be his recorded voice from last year, or it could be a complete fake. The […]
For-Profit Corporations Should Always Be Spinning-Out
Heads up. Extended metaphors are coming. If we imagine for a minute that generating profit is like consuming energy in the natural world, then we tend to run companies like we’re building fires. We find some raw materials, light a match, and grow it until we can burn everything that’s flammable (and maybe there’s some […]
Day 26
31 Jan 2018 (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Leah and I go for a long walk today and discuss things like balconies. It seems like an enormous percentage of the apartments in this city have a lovely, small amount of outdoor space. There’s a good chance we’re only walking through the nice parts of town, but still […]