I knew at then end of 2017 that I wanted to transition my career from plain old Commerce to FinTech, Payments, and Investing. This is why, in 2018, I set out to build an open-source blockchain protocol (called Merit) that pushed the boundaries of social dynamics built-into a cryptocurrency. Ideating and building Merit was one […]

I read an interesting article today in the WSJ that talked about the growth in unemployment rate among today’s recent college grads. Nothing super-surprising here. However, I was impressed to find that the President of the New York Fed, William Dudley, sees just how impactful gigs are to the future-of-work. “More twentysomethings today work “gig […]

I think every american high school male, at some point, has a jaded ‘nice guys finish last’ phase.  It’s 2 parts sulking and 1 part being bitter that the world is not fair.  I was no exception.  I remember how sure I was that there was a correlation between being a jerk and having success […]