TL;DR. This is about Bally’s AVP Acquisition, for an undisclosed sum in July of 2021. They’ve been putting together a portfolio to help them go after sports gaming for almost a full year. The AVP fits nicely into this plan and will be the first of many properties they acquire in sports. I was more […]
Have you ever been truly overwhelmed? A combination of sensory overload, tiredness and discomfort show you what it means to be out of your element. I’ve felt it once, after I landed in Beirut. A good friend of mine, grew up in Lebanon and has always told me amazing stories about his home. He described […]
TL;DR Ethereum is a crypto platform that allows other applications to use it’s blockchain. The token is a bet on the network. Smart Contracts have a lot of problems… but we’re getting there. Ethereum Ethereum looks like it is the future of the crypto economy. It’s proven itself to be the leading smart contract platform […]
Over the last few days I have taken a dive into Decentralized Finance, or DeFi. DeFi is the blockchain communities effort to invade the financial world. While Bitcoin has chipped away at gold as a store of value, DeFi could flip the financial world. DeFi has Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs), which allow the private and efficient […]
What I’ve discovered over the last few months is that how much I get done comes down to what I do every day. I’ve always heard about Systems as the way to make incremental progress and evaluate what you do. When people talked about systems I’ve always gotten confused, thinking they spoke of finding ways […]
Yesterday, I read the first few chapters of the Boron Letters. The Boron Letters are a series of letters written by Gary C. Halbert written from jail to his son. After reading what he wanted to call the book that was to come of the letters I was hooked; How to be your own Messiah. […]
Over the last two months I have been working on a new website, volleyhead.com. As you may remember in the middle of the summer I made an ugly website called sandcourts.info. The point was to give outdoor volleyball players access to information that I’ve often found myself desiring; where can I play. Over the course […]
A few nights ago I watched a movie called Crash. It takes place in LA and connects the lives of several characters who seem to have no association. Throughout the film we see certain characters change from hate filled to loving and vice versa. It shows us that we are all reacting and doing what […]
Sunk cost is an incurred and unrecoverable cost. This often leads the “spender” to continue investing in something, even though it is bringing little to no benefit. A common phrase that describes sunk cost, is throwing good money after bad. For example, buying a ticket and staying because you already spent the money. In this […]
Twitch is the leading streaming platform. In 2007 it began as a wild experiment by Justin Kan, Emmet Shear, Michael Seibel, and Kyle Vogt. Seibel is the CEO of Y-Combinator, Vogt went on to found Cruise. Twitch has the coolest origin story of any company I’ve ever heard of. The team wanted to get people […]