Author: Matt

Over the last several weeks I have been doing quite a bit of learning. One of the things I’m doing more of is going deeper on producing video and audio content for podcasting and YouTube channels. My home office now has enough equipment to do an adequate job with audio and video production. My YouTube…

Over the years I have done a lot of things. much of that history is documented on this website, but much more isn’t. Many of my projects and business ideas were purposely separated from my personal site and I didn’t even reference them here or elsewhere. Some of that was to avoid sharing more failures,…

This past year has been one of the most interesting I’ve had. Quitting my job gave me the time to pursue a wide variety of interests. And I did use the time this year to get a lot of unique things done – blockchain development, built a chat/finance app, wrote a space strategy plan/planned a…

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…

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…