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Sharad Venkat

Writing is Hard Eh?

Writing is Hard Eh?

Over the past month or so I’ve tried to start a regular writing habit. And I’ve discovered that its really hard. Not because writing is hard (even though it is), and not because I don’t want to do it (I do). I’ve struggled because there are

Russell Napier on the New Monetary World Order

Russell Napier on the New Monetary World Order

I'm a big fan of the historian and economist Russell Napier. He was on the ground in Asia during the Great Asian Financial Crisis and wrote extensively about it, which is one of the things he's well known for. Napier's takes on the current

Everyone Wants to Be Your Second Brain

Everyone Wants to Be Your Second Brain

Ok right off the bat lets define PKM because you might not know what it means. It stands for Personal Knowledge Management, and it defines the category of apps that help you create your own robust knowledge graph and 'combine and remix' different bits of knowledge and analysis

Sorry, Joe Rogan May Be a Visionary

Sorry, Joe Rogan May Be a Visionary

Its funny we live in a world where you have to think about the 10 different ways someone might interpret not what you write about, but the fact that you might mention a specific person. And with that I want to talk about Joe Rogan. Specifically this Joe Rogan from

There's 10 Apps For That??

There's 10 Apps For That??

🚩Note: I wrote this post a few weeks ago and then reread it today and thought it was awkwardly written. My focus on this blog is output more than it is perfection, but I still want to fix things I know can be better. I've recently gotten back

Why is my ETA Not Going Down?

Why is my ETA Not Going Down?

TRAFFIC. No, not the Steven Soderbergh movie with Benicio Del Toro. I'm talking about that real life traffic. That, not-of-the-drug-trade-extremely-unsexy-want-to-bang-your-head-on-the-steering-wheel-so-hard-it-activates-the-airbag kind of traffic. That's what we experienced driving today, making a 12 hour drive 15 hours. That's a lot of hours for anyone who

BlueCry? Nah, Decentralized Social is Just Better

BlueCry? Nah, Decentralized Social is Just Better

Bluecry is what I see Joe Rogan calling Bluesky, the semi-decentralized X alternative that a lot of people flocked to after Trump won the election. The social media landscape is interesting today. We have defacto fragmentation. There are a bunch of different X-like platforms that have a fairly-sticky user base.