As part of prototyping the aerial map idea, I was messing around with Mapbox for the first time in... oh, I dunno, 10 years, probably. For a first test, I just wanted to generate a static map with a satellite background along with some roads and labels. tl;dr -
Last week an idea came across my feed that I rather like, so this'll be kind of a stream-of-consciousness musing as I decide if / how to pursue it. idea The idea: software that generates an aerial map of a given area and automatically layers on logos of well-known
Lately we've been thinking about fundraising at work. We've built a good product and a business with gathering momentum and positive unit economics. Even without a raise we're likely to be in the black in a reasonable amount of time – knock on wood – or
Companies have clouds that they control where their data live, their workloads run, and their general "digital lives" take place. Why shouldn't individuals have the same? The idea of a personal cloud has been living rent-free in my head for at least two or three years
So the other day I was reading about a VPN service and the blog post had a sidebar about maps and mercator projections. A quick detour down the Wikipedia later, I discovered Tissot's Indicatrix. tl;dr - it's circles that show the distortion when projecting a
Here's something I didn't expect to see at the Fushimi Inari Taisha: The shrine has roundabouts 10,000 of these brilliant red-orange gates (torii), and as a mostly-Japanese-illiterate tourist it was easy to walk past a couple and assume everything is religious or historical. Lines of
There's a stock phrase I see occasionally in finance: "can you trade it?" That is: if you have information or a read on the market that's actually good, then surely you can use it to make a profitable trade. It's a bit
I have an arbitrary personal goal to snatch 80 kilograms before I turn 35. This post is a little blurb on why (which I can then paste to people in the future). Much like others in 2020-21, I emerged from the pandemic a bit older and worse for wear with
One stop on my book tour through public stock investing is Joel Greenblatt's You Can Be a Stock Market Genius. It covers investing in "special situations" like corporate spin-offs, mergers, and turnarounds, where an individual investor can get an edge over institutions. For example: If a
I was in Boston at the end of last month and got the chance to visit some old stomping grounds. This Coca Cola sign stars in some of my earliest childhood memories so it's quite likely older than I am. What's it take to just... exist,
Here's a fun little game I've been playing lately: "Is this store a franchise? Wonder how they're doing." While reading up on Schooley Mitchell, I discovered that franchises (at least legitimate ones) are regulated by the FTC and required to publish a
When we were in Nagano for our Japan trip, we made it a point to visit the Jigokudani park. We stayed at an inn in Shibu Onsen (lovely in its own right, but a post for another day – the premise here is one thing a week!), where there is a