Typically, going away on vacation or working from another office throws a major wrench in all of my routines. Being away for 10 days means there are going to be 10 days where I wake up in a different place at a different time and interact with different people. Unfortunately, this wreaks havoc on my […]
I discovered what The Machine (working title) is actually about: what the internet is made of and the people who make it. Ultimately, I want everyone to be a more responsible user of the internet by knowing more about how and by whom their favorite sites and apps were created. By understanding the basics of […]
When we got together to create a podcast, I was most looking forward to an episode just like this. We took heavy losses this week as a group. We mostly failed. We were far below average and made little to no progress on the things we promised we would work on. These are the moments […]
One specific impact I would like to have on the world is getting people to have a better understanding of why and how they use the internet. Millennials in general were born into a world with dail-up internet and grew into the world that is constantly connected. With every advancement in speed or capabilities, we […]
This week, I told the story of how I found out I was black. It might sound obvious to a lot of people, but latin people have a special relationship with melanin. This relationship typically ranges from learned anti-blackness (soy indio) to complete denial (Sammy Sosa now). I grew up knowing I was Dominican. We […]
Writing is Real The working title of the novel is The Machine. This week, wrote three pages. Definitely not the first three pages, but they’ll make it into the first third if anywhere. The pages just started as a description of my dads office in my family’s home in Miami. It could easily be an episode of […]
I used to equate predictability and planning with being boring and uninspired. Nowadays, planning is integral for anything I do in the name of productivity. If I feel that if something is going to get me closer to my goals, then I need to lay out exactly how and why that is going to occur. […]
The first episode of the podcast was special. It wasn’t the first or second thing we recorded, but we figured it out how to record and edit a podcast with four people in three different locations on a weekly basis. We used a few different programs and some fancy footwork to get it […]
People are growing more confident in Bitcoins every day. What was once a topic only discussed in the deepest crevices of the internet is now being discussed by Forbes, Fortune, and Floyd Mayweather (the three F’s of money).What is it about cryptocurrencies that is allowing more and more people to trust it and invest their […]
Investing in cryptocurrencies is as simple as creating an online account and linking it to a source of cash. Making money with cryptocurrency is a lot harder. If you want someone to tell you how to make money doing this, you have come to the wrong place. If you simply want to learn what steps […]