I’ve been working from home since 2017, three years before Covid exiled much of the laptop workforce to their homes and banal Zoom meetings. I was one of the first in my organization to go remote. At the time, it was frowned upon by most of the upper management in…

I was on our biweekly team call the other day. There are about twelve of us. About half of the people on the call, including myself, work remotely. There was talk about the organization arranging for all of us to meet in the office in September. We are headquartered in…

The manifestation of this precarious new world we are rapidly constructing hit me recently. It was during a Zoom meeting that I realized that a significant portion of Western society is headed for a strange dystopian future. I understood at that moment how much America has changed in the past…

My parents are hard-working people. Both my mother and father started working full-time when they were just 15 years old. When I was growing up, it seemed like at least one of them was on their way to the swing or graveyard shift. It wasn’t uncommon for either my mother…

Mark Twain once said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” The strangest vibe I’ve ever felt was a night in San Francisco in the time of Covid. I’ve been visiting city on a fairly regular basis for about twenty years. My wife and I…

When gold surpassed $2,000 per ounce in August of 2020, the financial media and Youtube were awash in calls for gold to reach $5,000 per ounce or possibly $10,000. Early concerns of inflation caused a rush on gold and silver. Coin shops were suddenly flooded with customers even as the…