Reading the story of Socrates and his defense of his knowledge work in front of the Council of Athens this week has made me feel a little sad, but also resigned in the understanding that not much is different today than it was thousands of years ago. …

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I thought about the purpose of poetry when I was reading W.H. Auden’s Collected Poems this evening. Here is my definition of poetry: A kind of incantation or magical acoustic signature shaped by the human voice and ear, which binds together emotions and ideas and connects the reader to an…

My readings of modern literature continue, this time with my journey through “Tender Is The Night,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is the author of “The Great Gatsby,” and I consider him to be one of the consummate writers of mental anguish, guilt and greed in the 20th Century. In…

Last night, a Beeple digital art piece sold at a Christie’s auction for over US$69 million. Beeple was born in 1981 and has made his art life on the Internet. The US$69 million hammer fall is not a staggering amount in the fine arts auction world, but the context of…

One of the trends that measures how hot the Bitcoin bull rally is running is the number of new Bitcoin wallets entering the Top 300. Currently there are five new whale-sized wallet addresses that have entered into the top 300, all in the span of the first week of January…

Being divisive is actually super important to developing a tangible investment strategy that is built out of empirical experience. In my experience, you have to fight to gain experience. And you have to struggle to get to the point where you see the truth, rather than accept what most consider…

My goal was to read “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot and “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson this weekend. I accomplished both, but I think I got inspiration from Emerson’s essay. I thought Eliot’s long four part poem was way too abstract. …

Tonight the Hong Kong government will enforce stricter Covid-19 rules and that means restaurants will close at six, bars will be closed indefinitely, and gyms, nail salons and massage places will be boarded up. The measures will stay in place until the fourth wave of coronavirus passes through and Hong…