If you are a parent or may one day raise children, what is your philosophy of pain? How much should you allow your children to experience? Surprisingl...
When my parents arrived in the little town of Corrubbio just outside of Verona (that story here), they already had my nanny lined up. I was two. M...
Thirteen years after WW2 ended, my mom was a teacher putting my dad through medical school. Then - whoops - she got pregnant with me. They did thi...
What would you do if you were going to be killed because you were smarter than your peers? Would you lie about your background? Last month I wa...
We are forever in process, wrestling to narrow the gap between our ideal self and the self who is stuck checking off today’s To Do List. Many of u...
How is your relationship with your father? Are you able to be vulnerable with him? I've seen so many young people with a poor relationshi...
Imagine you're leading a department in a business. But you know that your tech stack is outmoded. You need to upgrade. How do you know what investm...
At 60 years old, Adrian Torres had lost all his teeth. Life has been hard on Torres. A construction worker in El Salvador, he has had to live paych...
In my blog last week, I shared the story of El Zonte, El Salvador, a town that decided two years ago to switch its currency to bitcoin. Most pe...
In earlier blogs I introduced the idea that those trapped in poverty can be empowered by integrating them into a micro-economy that uses bitcoin as cu...
