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Off Grid Living In Town
Power! People were offering me power! And I turned them down, with thanks. One way to experience off-the-grid living is to move to a rural area where storms are common. Up comes the wind, down come the trees, out goes … Continue reading
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Tagged community, emergency preparedness, frugality, off the grid, off-grid, power, Puget Sound Energy, solar power, technology, Whidbey Island
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Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2020
Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2020 Six months ago, who thought the world would look like this? (Let me check my notes. Nope. I was reading about but didn’t start writing about the pandemic until February 2020.) Six months from now, … Continue reading
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Tagged AAPL, AMAT, AMSC, climate change, coro, CSCO, FFIV, GERN, injustice, investing, LCTX, MSFT, MVIS, NPTN, pandemic, personal finance, politics, stocks, technology
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Truly Scary Things
If only I could match the list of my scariest things to Julie Andrews singing My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music. Irony: The Sound of Music was about a family fleeing a government that shifted from a constitutional … Continue reading
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Tagged bitcoin, climate change, deflation, digital singularity, environment, finance, injustice, personal finance, social injustice, technology, terrorism
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Super Bowl Ads 2019
Silly as it sounds, I watch the Super Bowl ads for insights into personal finance. Want to see who has the biggest marketing campaign? Want to gauge the country’s mood? Want to check for trends in discretionary spending? Yep. Watch … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, climate change, inequality, investing, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, social injustice, stocks, Super Bowl, technology
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Gathering Revised Plans
I laughed. I danced. I almost cried. What a weekend. For the last few days I attended a conference/seminar/think tank/gathering of diverse people. I learned more from what wasn’t said than what was said. A lot of assumptions, institutions, and … Continue reading
Giving Thanks 2016
If I started listing everything I’m thankful for, I could write chapters, books, series, volumes, shelves of material. An intriguing thought comes to mind, if I could live long and prosper as long as I wrote about gratitude every day, … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, community, compassion, culture, diversity, injustice, Internet, logic, objectivity, reason, society, technology, virtual reality
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Adapting To Singularities
Singularities don’t have to happen alone. One singularity is enough to make the world seem senseless. Old rules don’t apply. Old causes create new effects. It is easy to get confused. Triple that, at least. We may be experiencing three … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, Brexit, climate change, digital singularity, disruptive technology, earthquake, environment, frugal, frugality, health care, housing, investing, Lottery, New Zealand, personal finance, politics, sea ice, Simple Living, singularity, stocks, technology, tsunami
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Digital Singularity Preparedness
The Digital Singularity is like an earthquake for someone living over a fault. It can feel silly thinking and preparing for it because, even though it can happen any day, it might not for years or decades. In both cases … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, digital singularity, economy, Ex Machina, finance, frugal, frugality, health care, housing, investing, mortgage, personal finance, Simple Living, singularity, technology, WaitButWhy
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Pretending Not To Panic Launch
Incredible. The news is incredible. Every day news splashes across my screen that is incredibly apocalyptic, in a bad way; and incredibly revolutionary, in a good way. Because of my eclectic interests, and because I have eclectic clients, I witness … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, economy, finance, frugal, frugality, health care, housing, jobs, occupy, PNTP, politics, Simple Living, singularity, social justice, technology, unemployment, wealth
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Training And Technology
I felt the earth move under my feet. Well, really, it was the car that moved, the rail car. I’m blogging from Amtrak’s Cascades train heading from Seattle to Portland. It is a trip mixing old tech and new tech, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amtrak, frugal, frugality, HCLE, Mark Twain, social media, speaking, technology, writing
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