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“Why are we addicts?” I asked my friend. “What do you mean?” “My kids don’t’ even know who the Beatles are. Everything you write, everything I write, will be forgotten within three days of us dying,” I said. I’m addicted to my past. Afraid of my future. The past is often too painful. It’s an […]

After divorce, I moved back into the Chelsea Hotel. This was ten years ago. Robert was behind the desk in 2007. Robert was behind the desk in 1995 when I had originally moved in. I hadn’t seen him since I moved out in 1998, about three months after I had been married. Which already tells […]

Here’s the problem: Most people who know a lot about Bitcoin can only speak “tech.” I was at a conference recently. I was the keynote speaker but had zero talk prepared (as usual). It was a crowdfunding conference so I “crowdsourced” my talk. I asked the audience: I can talk about entrepreneurship or I can […]

Around 5000 years ago, the aliens landed and handed out little calendars to everyone building those statues on Easter Island. “Here”, they said, “look here.” And they pointed to a box labeled January 1. “Wha,” said the Easter Islanders. “Wha? Wha? Wha????” “It’s the first day of the year, you idiot. From now on, when […]

I’m a skeptic that there is a god that sat down at a typewriter and wrote a BOOK. I’m a skeptic that Allah spoke to Mohammed. I’m a skeptic that Moses parted the Red Sea. I’m a skeptic that Buddha achieved something called Enlightenment. I’m a skeptic in affirmation. I’m a skeptic in heaven or […]

“You sound like a moron,” one of my closest friends recently told me. It was because I was feeling sick but I haven’t been to a doctor since I was 18. In one month I turn 50. The last doctor i went to was my pediatrician before I went to college. I don’t even know […]

I didn’t even want to do a podcast. Too much work! I’m too shy to ask people to come on. And I get so nervous I hope each podcast will get cancelled. Or a natural disaster will happen. But I wanted an excuse to ask people how they made their lives better. Maybe I could […]