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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.

Latest blog post

Book review: Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better, by Lyn Alden

tl;dr: A somewhat more level-headed view of Bitcoin than you get from the Bitcoin maxis...

I like Lyn Alden. I subscribe to her newsletter and follow some of her recommendations, although one was a Russian ETF that went to zero after the U.S. imposed sanctions in response to the War with Russia. She believes in diversification, which disqualifies her from being a Bitcoin maxi. I am aligned with her macroeconomic views which come more from the Austrian school than Keynesianism. The first two thirds of Broken Money are a good primer on the monetary system before the focus shifts to whether Bitcoin can be the cure for the ills that Alden documents...

A book cover with the book’s title, subtitle, and author’s name in large letters in the center, with a photo of U.S. paper currency above and a drawing of circular nodes connected by orange lines below, on a white background


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