Matt Warren

I really loved reading Andy Weir’s book The Martian. It really re-invigorated my reading habit and drove me to read a bunch more science-fiction books. His subsequent book Artemis was on my list to read for a long time and I finally had the time to tackle it. It was perhaps the fastest I’ve read […]

I love bikes, want to be able to use them more often than I do, and have been looking for something to do as a hands on project that doesn’t use the computer so much. Building my own bike seems like a neat and unique project. When thinking about what I would want in a […]

I ripped through this book by Valter Longo – The Longevity Diet. It is the result of 30 years of dietary studies, clinical & experimental lab research, and epidemiological studies.  Expanding and refining on the discovery that calorie restricted diets result in 30% longer life expectancy in mammals, Dr. Longo has spent decades trying to […]

It was two years ago that I learned about a system of keeping an agenda/journal that really made sense to me.  Bullet Journal is a flexible way to organize a plain physical journal so that you get exactly what you want out of the practice without the rigid space limitation and structure of pre-printed agendas […]

I have been finding myself increasingly frustrated with the amount of American news that I see as a Canadian. On many topics it seems like I know more about what is happening in another country than in my own. A sad state of affairs. Most of these things are actually meaningless to me personally. Decisions […]

If the climate models recently published by the IPCC are accurate, then things are not looking great for the future. Indeed, if we continue on the same path that we are currently on then it is unlikely that my daughter will live long enough to die of old age. When rising ocean levels force a […]

Last week I did a soft launch of the revamped Blockagram platform that I’ve been working on for the last while. Blockagram is a service that allows you to send messages to people for marketing purposes with a small amount of Bitcoin to incentivize them to both subscribe to your marketing list, and act on […]

On Friday, the winds were picking up, and we got an emergency alert on our phones for a tornado warning in the area. At around 3:30 pm we lost power, which stopped my ability to get anything done on the computer for the day. At around 5 we had a short reprieve and the power […]

Last night I was attempting to learn a little bit of Chinese after being inspired from a series of documentaries and travel vlogs (ChopStick Travel) that I’ve been taking in over the last 3-4 weeks. Anyway, I opened up DuoLingo and was quickly disappointed. Then I tried Memrise, which was slightly better, but it suffered […]

Over the last week I ran into a difficult problem to solve with my B lockagram application that I have been working on for the last few months. It required some deep thinking. I spent three days with some sensory deprivation to really focus my thoughts and avoid even the slightest distractions. An eye mask […]