...marathoner (NYC), scooter (Vespa).

My goal is to grow more anti-fragile every day.

My heroes include Thomas Jefferson, Joe Strummer, Richard Feynman, and my parents, wife and kids.

I ride a '78 Vespa Rally 180 (should never have sold my '63 GL; it was straight outta "Quadrophenia"; but there's a funny story about that...).

I'm really proud of this piece of writing I did recently on my favorite new artist. If you like music, buy one of JD's albums. If you don't love it I'll reimburse you full price to send it to someone else who may:

JD McPherson: The Savior Rock and Roll Deserves

bit.ly/1d7kaDa

Ask me how and why the "internet of value" we are building now will be as transformational as the internet of information has been and together with the Internet of Things they will unleash unprecedented innovation and growth, raise the standard of living globally and for all socio-economic groups and transform societies.

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. "- Archimedes

“The monopoly of government of issuing money has not only deprived us of good money but has also deprived us of the only process by which we can find out what would be good money.” - Friedrich Hayek

"That’s the reason we play drums, isn’t it? We chose the rolling thunder and the gentle rain that follows. Had we wanted to replicate the chatter of mother to baby sparrows, we’d have surely played flute or, better, piccolo." - Some dude philosophizing on the art and science of John Bonham's drum sound

"I hope when I die I go embroiled in the middle of things, surrounded by people I love, doing the things that matter most. I hope I leave a mountain of shit unfinished, that I have a pan on the stove, a phone call waiting and a pencil in my hand. I hope I'm man enough to be thinking about tomorrow." - Steve Albini

"The crime which bankrupts men and states is jobwork - declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there." - Emerson