Making Venmonopoly One of my fond memories of growing up in Puerto Rico, strangely enough, revolves around a six day game of Monopoly my family played during the candle lit aftermath of
Software is Eating Software Developers Four years ago my partner and I were talking about revolutionary 20th century technology when we began day dreaming about future inventions that could redefine humanity. It was in this
What Beeple's Approach to Art Can Teach Us about Building Successful Startups Considering the hype in cryptocurrency, it's easy to think that the way this art was valued was equally hyped. But a closer look reveals useful lessons in building products and businesses.
Introducing TheirLabel: domain name white-labeling for Bubble Bubble is a technology I've come to love. The ethos behind its creation - that you shouldn't have to have a PhD in computer science to build a custom website - is exciting, democratic, and empowering. There's a lot of great design in this
Mapping $63 Billion of Commercial Loans in Peoria County, Illinois A national credit union hired me to collect 7,534 commercial loan contracts issued between 2007 and 2017. Here they are on a map. Note: this data was sourced from public records. To learn more see how I built this.Each parcel is color
The Quest to Map Over $63 Billion of Commercial Loans in Peoria County Three years ago a national credit union hired me to collect some "hard-to-reach public data." Specifically, they wanted to mass-gather Peoria and surrounding county’s public records on commercial real estate to learn details about potential customers that would help them sell loans. Here
Calculate the Probability of a Flush in Poker using Math & Monte Carlo Explore combinations and simulations.
Investing My Grandma Can Trade Better Than you... She's dead Profitable investing is easy enough a dead person could do it.
Lies & Co Lies & Co. Ever heard of a game called Two Truths and a Lie? That’s basically this blog column except we’ll tell as many truths as we want.