Do you feel like your thoughts, ideas, and plans are being suffocated by a constant onslaught of information? Do you want to get those great ideas out of your head, onto the whiteboard and into everyone else’s heads, but find it hard to start? No matter what level of sketching you think you have, Presto … Read more
Sometimes the tide sweeps us into a fog where dark forces are at work… All of a sudden evil and good become blurred… Powerless and defenseless, we swim toward it, and wonder if we’re going mad. Stifled by the repression of women in the 1800s, trapped in a loveless marriage, Eva lives a life of … Read more
Conceived of as a means of facilitating private transactions between anonymous parties, Blockchain is a product of the crypto-anarchist community called the Cypherpunks. This group was founded with the radical premise of someday eliminating all governments. Later, a “less anarchistic” version of the technology (permissioned Blockchain) was created and adopted by IBM and other companies. … Read more
This isn’t just another story about a search for a birth mother. This is a story about secrets and lies and the lengths people will go to to protect a grand Southern family name from scandal. It’s a story about tireless perseverance in claiming a meaningful life when your very birth seemed to be a … Read more
Imagine yourself, born into the suburbs, your parents working class people, your school nothing special. Imagine that, for some reason far beyond your understanding as a very young child, a god that you didn’t even know existed ear-marked you as his bargaining chip in a trade across realities. Imagine that, from the time of that … Read more
This book isn’t just about being in business; it’s about the business of being. But when you stop to think about it, each of us is like a small business. Successful business owners implement strategies that improve their prospects for success. Similarly, as human beings, it serves us well to implement guiding principles that inspire us … Read more
An oral history of blues legend Benny Turner, from his birth and early childhood in Gilmer, TX to the family’s move to Chicago, IL and the ultimate birth of his career in the gospel, R&B and blues genres. Surviving extreme poverty in East Texas followed by the shocking transition to urban life in Chicago and … Read more