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Crypto crash update May 2022 - 2022 May 29
The crypto space is now in a really nasty bear market, here's an update for the end of May 2022.
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Economic sanctions and vodka bans - 2022 May 16
In the middle of the Russia-Ukraine crisis many people started calling for all sorts of bans. How effective are these really? Calls for bans on Vodka are far more informative than I'd ever have imagined as it exposes many of the complexities of the modern world including how brands are so utterly disconnected from what they represent.
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Why I stopped using Ebay to sell things - 2022 May 15
Why I stopped selling things on Ebay.
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Russia-Ukraine conflict crypto grifting - 2022 March 02
There's definitely unscrupulous people out there who live by the notion of "never let a crisis go to waste" who are using the recent war as a means to grift and scam. Some of these people are using crypto currencies to run these scams.
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Bastiat on legal systems and morality - 2022 February 28
Came across a highly relevant quote from Bastiat today
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My bank workshop experience - 2022 February 17
Just as the Covid pandemic was starting I ran a workshop that was easily the worst one I've run in my career. Despite things going poorly there was a huge learning opportunity that I'm glad I had. The banking industry has changed dramatically and I wasn't prepared for it.
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The limits "no code" solutions - 2022 February 12
What's the limits of "no code" solutions? When do you actually need software specialists to work on your projects? What's the consequences of not getting those people on board when you need them?
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Transitory inflation means permanent purchasing power reduction - 2022 January 05
Transitory inflation means permanent purchasing power reduction
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Where is money created - 2021 December 11
Where is money actually created in the system? Hint, it's not where most people think.
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A change in the common knowledge in the markets - last weekend of November - 2021 November 29
On the weekend with announcements of the Omicron covid variant I suspect there might be a shift in sentiment.
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