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Like so many other high-flying Silicon Valley startups, Clinkle was supposed to ‘make the world a better place’. Founded in 2011 by a guy barely out of his teens, the company picked up early buzz after proclaiming they would disrupt mobile payments. Or something. Silicon Valley venture capital firms were
Finally, the breakthrough. After months of experimentation and failure, I finally managed to crack the code and successfully distill my first batch of homemade ethanol. I botched the job the first seven times and ended up with useless buckets of goo, so I’m pretty excited right now. It turns out
On October 22, 1986, the world was an entirely different place. The Soviet Union still loomed, as did the threat of nuclear annihilation. Most people had no idea how to use a computer, let alone even heard of the “Internet” (which at the time was still a military communications project.)
Last week the Internet was ablaze with disgust after a man was physically dragged off a United Airlines flight. What’s amazing, though, is that there are countless cases of another industry abusing its customers in far, far worse ways than the airlines. I’m talking, of course, about the banking industry.
Recently the Congressional Budget Office published a scathing report that the US government debt-to-GDP ratio will double over the next 30-years. Few government agencies are as blunt as the Congressional Budget Office. In fact the agency’s report plainly states that “the prospect of such large and growing debt poses substantial
On the plane ride back to Chile last night, I was sitting next to a particularly chatty woman who wanted to know my whole life story and what I was doing in Mexico. I played along and explained to her that I had been on a cruise for the past
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