15 Ways to Boost Your Productivity

The idea is simple. I think right now, at this moment in this bear market on the verge of a recession, is the time for anyone, but especially me, to build wealth for the next economic cycle. If you’ve been around a while, like I have and lived through 2008…

Jaques de Molay stood at the window and gazed out on the dew soaked courtyard. The morning sun barely crested the distant tree shrouded hills, casting a glorious red-orange glow over the thick castle walls. The rooms behind him were quiet, the inhabitants yet stirring. He was in the habit…

Dr. Zeno Caster sat at the desk in his office and thought about rearranging again. He had just lost his third graduate assistant this semester and wondered if maybe, his filing system had something to do with it. No grad student stayed with him longer than six weeks. He once…

BEHEMOTH The September sun beat down mercilessly, baking the Arizona desert into shimmering waves of heat. Manga Castor leaned against the hot rock wall of the cavern she was traversing and fished out of the spigot to her Camelback. …

Red skies at night Sailor’s delight Red skies at morn Sailor’s be warned Simple to learn. Easy to follow. A way to gauge the coming day. Will there be storms? Before radar, before satellite, travelers used the stars to decide what’s going to happen in the short term. And now? …

Argenta Arts District is doing it right. At least as far as downtown rehab and revitalizations go. Little Rock is failing. Pine Bluff is falling. A hundred small downtown’s in the Delta aren’t making it. They sit abandoned, forgotten, dilapidated. Haunted by the ghosts of what once was. Haunted by…

What Are You Good At Doing? I’m good at making checklists. I’m great at coming up with ideas. Sometimes, I can merge the two and build a little roadmap. I might have hundreds of them. Sitting notebooks, sitting on computer files. Waiting. Roadmaps that would make the world a better…

At one point, I was going to start a donut shop. I was going to call it nodutz just reversing the N and the D and served donuts from 5 am — 11 am. The plan was to find businesses to become regular weekly customers. They would order by the…

An Introduction to NFT’s Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs. Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs. What Are They? NFTs are a new type of digital asset that represent something unique. They are also stored on the blockchain and can’t be copied. Unlike traditional fungible assets like Bitcoin or Ethereum, each NFT is unique…