The silver lining to the US starting a trade war with Canada and regularly threatening annexation is that it has forced this country out of complacency. Indeed, I'm hard pressed to remember a time, at least in my lifetime, when patriotism and nationalism has united so much of Canada. According to a recent survey by Angus Reid, the percentage of Canadians expressing a "deep emotional attachment" to the country jumped from 49% in December 2024 to 59% in February 2025. And as further evidence of...

So yes, it's late here on the east coast on a Sunday and Prof is just getting this weekly recap out. Why so late you ask? Welp -- she's still in Crypto the Game. Adrienne happily exited the game days ago, while Prof is a special kind of crazy that you'll only find from people still in this game. And here's a recap of everything else we did last week!

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Hello and happy weekend! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂)⸝♡ I'm back with your weekly dose of art featuring my Five Faves! This time the pieces are bold and vibrant, filled with vivid colors to keep you uplifted and inspired 🌈✨ Let's get right to it!

We just did a complete overhaul of the landing page for Parkview Mountain House. If you're a new reader, PMH is Globizen's "creative retreat" in Park City, Utah. We completed it and opened it up for reservations at the end of last year. If any of you have feedback on the new page, I'd love to hear it. It was a lot of fun rummaging through all of the photos that I have taken there over the years during development and construction. And as much as I love snowboarding, I really enjoy visiting du...

Why do we happily consume endless nonfiction on our phones but reach for physical books when we want fiction? I explore the fundamental tension between how we experience digital content and how fiction works in our minds.

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This month's issue of Monocle magazine is a special edition focused on property. And that's because this month was also the annual MIPIM festival in Cannes, which is apparently the largest real estate boondoggle, I mean conference, in the world. One of the development projects that is featured in the special is Culdesac Tempe (which is located just east of Phoenix). This is a development that has received a lot of press over the years, including here on this blog, as it was developed as a car...

Stateless Reth is a fully validating Ethereum Execution Layer that reduces node storage requirements to just 14GB.

DeFi on Base is flourishing, and there are tons of high quality projects building for the long term.