Projects

• Lark - React Native, Node, Express
• Avalanche Reports - Ember, Rails, Elastic
• Electron OCR (NPM module) - Electron, Ocrad.js, jQuery
• Tetris - JavaScript, jQuery, Lodash, HTML5 Canvas
• Ski Resorts (NPM module) - JavaScript, Mocha, Chai, TravisCI
• more...

Posts

• Migrating to Elasticsearch 5.4.0 on Heroku using Elastic Cloud
• Elasticsearch Resources
• Cognitive Coding: A Mindful Geek
• Optical Character Recognition (“OCR”) in a Ember & Electron App
• Sorting Algorithms – Bubble, Merge, Insertion
• jQuery Fundamentals
• Functions, Variables, and Objects in JavaScript
• Getting Started with Sketch
• How to Contribute to Open Source
• Crossing the U.S. Policy Void
• Mid-year Portfolio Review
• Successful Investing in a Low Growth Economy
• Mineral Royalty Stream Financing
• Finance Leaders Conference – Chicago, IL
• Seigniorage, American Privilege
• The Bank “Bailout”
• The Oracle of Omaha: Warren Buffett
• Market Bubbles
• Neither a borrower nor a lender be
• Goldman Sachs Fraud Case
• True Cost Of Being Poor

Inspiration

• “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.” – Buffett
• “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” – Boulding
• “What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.” – Chief Seattle
• “We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.” – Chödrön
• “I don’t set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.” – Clark
• “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most adaptable to change.” – Darwin
• “Whether you think you can, or you can’t – either way you are right.” – Ford
• “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Franklin
• “There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.” – Galbraith
• “A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” – Ghandi
• “The only constant in life is change.” – Heraclitus
• “Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates, sometimes, the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail… if you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.” – Jobs
• “Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.” – Keynes
• “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – E. Roosevelt
• “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – Santayana
• “I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.” – Twain
• “The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.” – Wallace
• “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Yoda