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“Every time you earn a nickel, someone takes a dime.”  That was my grandmother’s favorite way of complaining about the cost of living in retirement. If I had a nickel for every time I heard her say that, well I’d at least have enough for a McDonald’s Happy Meal.  I was raised by my grandparents. I saw their retirement [Read More] …

And the Growing Threat From Inflation Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. First up this week, regrets…British homebuyers have a few. According to a new survey by insurance provider Aviva, half of the people who bought a home in the [Read More] …

An email prompted this.  Well, a few actually.  But one in particular. It was from a reader calling “BS” on the video I shared last week of the rigs I’ve built to mine a bit of the world’s #2 cryptocurrency, Ethereum. (If you missed that video, you can view it here.)  This reader rightly pointed out that Ethereum is switching algorithms at some [Read More] …

A Trip Down the Digital Nomad Rabbit Hole Maybe I’ve just huffed too much jet fuel…  But here I am, al frescoing again at one of my favorite neighborhood cafés in Prague, and I’m thinking about what subject I want to address in this dispatch…and I get distracted by a random thought that pops into my head from nowhere.  “I [Read More] …

The waitress arrived with my second Aperol spritz—an Italian wine cocktail. We looked at each other and smiled.  I alight to this café often to spend several hours at a time writing, so we “know” each other in that way that people who see one another regularly “know the face,” though we’ve never spoken beyond her taking my order.  “You write [Read More] …