For those who remember the 90s, my guess is that most people think of Serbia as a country that helped perpetrate ethnic cleansing of Albanians.

There’s something in the Croatian mind that gives the people here a unique perspective on things.

I’m going to call it “TTV” or “Time to Vulnerability.”

I’m headed to the Balkans in a few weeks and to prepare, I am reading Rebecca West’s classic travelogue, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.

I’m a big believer in cultural appropriation.

A friend of mine told me about a chant at Columbia in a protest that went, “Yemen, Yemen, make us proud, turn another ship around.”

Any long time reader of any of my blogs (going all the way back to Blogspot) knows that I’ve been on a 15+ year rant against the declining value of the “traditional college education.”

That’s essentially what Joe Biden did when he instructed the UN ambassador to abstain from the UN security council vote the other day.

One of the areas that intrigues me about web3 is gaming.