Tag: Backwards

The Crypto Travel Rule — Yet Another Restrictive, Backwards Regulation

Remember how cryptocurrency was built for cheap, fast international peer-to-peer transfers? Being able to transfer cryptocurrency across long distances quickly and cheaply is a significant use case for cryptocurrency in general, and there are projects such as Ripple, Stellar, Litecoin, Algo, Nano an...

How We Travel Through Time

We travel through time backwards. In addition… Our past (the gray line) is shaped by every choice we make in the current moment. We spend most of our time focused on the past and our guesses about the future timelines. We can also see the current moment, but few of us pay enough atte...

Going Backwards on Our Commitment to Racial Justice

The new school year is approaching in the aftermath of two recent US Supreme Court decisions that fail to acknowledge the deep wounds of our racist history. We are going back to school as usual while going backward on our commitment to racial justice. First, the loss of race-conscious affirmative...

Learning how to have nails after a lifetime of not.

My birthday is the same forwards and backwards 4.24.24 (at least without the full 204 year), and as other turning points have had similar distinctions such as this (like the year I turned 30 and we took a trip to where we now live), it came to me one night that the day, month, and full year of my bi...