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A few nights ago, I decided to look into the Bhagavad Gita. I had heard about it many years ago in university, but never got around to reading it. I watched a couple of video summa…

I have been going over this blog post in my mind for a week. It's a story that I think should be told. But I can't quite figure out how to tell it. Rather than continuing to think …

Last night, before bed, I watched **_Worth_** starring Michael Keaton as Kenneth Feinberg. The story follows Feinberg and his business partner Camille Biros as they manage the vict…

Over the years I have added movies to my Netflix watch list. The list has grown longer and longer as I rarely sit down to watch any of them. Some of this is procrastination as the …

I finished Module 3 of learning Python with the intention of using it with AI. Today's lesson included some steps we missed on floating numbers and tuples. The we moved on to While…

It's always a mystery to me how life can be hot or cold. Busy or boring. Things seem to swing from one extreme to the next. This week has kept me moving. I've managed to get some i…

I recently wrote that [I finally decided to learn Python](https://ecency.com/category/@shainemata/finally-decided-to-learn-python). I just finished the second day of lessons. I'm l…

I finally decided to sit down and learn how to code in Python. I just finished up a learning module. I took other programming courses in college. I learned some Pascal, FORTRAN, C,…

Last night I finished watching the second season of FUBAR, a Netflix series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's a campy show about CIA operatives trying to balance work and family…

I have some blogs on [Blogger.com](http://Blogger.com "http://Blogger.com") that I have let lie dormant in recent years, since discovering [Steem](https://www.steemit.com "https://…

A couple of days ago, I wrote a blog post about choosing a new direction and considering a change from what I was doing to find something that works better. It's funny how life fin…

I'm writing this without getting into specifics because I'm in a transition of sorts. I'm currently in one place but am working toward being in another, which requires some changes…

The rise of stablecoins is undoubtedly a great development in our monetary system. The key benefits of stablecoins being fast, low-cost, and peer-to-peer value transfer. Stablecoin…

I am quite opinionated, particularly about politics. Yet, I have not been forthcoming with any such opinions in my blog posts. I have expressed some opinions in comments. There is …

**Uneasy Money** is an entertaining love story by P. G. Wodehouse. By today's standards, it would be a romantic comedy. This book was first published in 1916. And one might thing t…

The Allure of Bitcoin Riches ============================ Bitcoin to the moon! Number go up. We're all excited about buying lambos and living the life of luxury simply by hodling …

I haven't yet deep-dived into the technical parts of SEO effects of Google's new Search AI Mode. It seems to me, on the surface, that Google Search's new AI mode could dramatically…

Yesterday and today I have delegated Hive Power to projects. I have also started gifting Hive SBI Units to accounts that interest me. I find myself at this crossroads of sorts beca…

I recently discovered in a roundabout way that Ethereum is far from becoming a dead blockchain. It all happened when I was exploring the Stellar blockchain. Somewhere I saw that St…

I do value Bitcoin and what it is doing for the crypto industry and how it's changing the world. However, in the long term, I see that there is a bit of a problem with Bitcoin once…