Fifty feet of Crap The problem we are trying to solve is hard and circular in Splinterlands! Yes, its been a while I have written about the game and it is time for some reflection towards the team and

Bled, Slovenia Lately, I have heard that "everybody is going to Bled!". I know I am exaggerating but this spring and summer three different families from my workplace visited Bled! I wonder why?!

Ljubljana After a slight stressful trip to Spain last March—where a cascade of missed connecting flights left us stranded in multiple airports—we decided to change our approach to family travel for our

Oh London! I came back from Netherlands on a Sunday, and on Tuesday I am back on the airplane again heading across the pond to London! Yeah, don't ask me why didn't I just take a train from Amsterdam to

Blossoms and Canals Amsterdam is a city of layers. You can find whatever version of it you are looking for, depending on the time of day and the street you choose to turn down. On this particular Tuesday,

An afternoon at Amersfoort I am so far behind on my travel posts, it has been a busy summer so far, but let me try and catch up. I didn’t set out looking for anything extraordinary—just a simple day trip

A Day Trip to Utrecht It's been a more than a week since I am back from my trip to Netherlands, and yet I haven't found enough time to write about it. It has been busy around here. In fact, I had been

Haarlem: A day trip from Amsterdam If you’re looking to escape the bustling streets of Amsterdam for a day, let me let you in on a secret: Haarlem is only a 15-minute train ride away, and it is absolute

Zero Day Vulnerability First, a couple of disclaimers. I am not a developer, before this incident that I am going to talk about, I didn't know about Zero Day Vulnerability I am a major stakeholder both

Looking for a Rental Property So, I continue to look at the single family home market in Northern Houston. These days there is so much data publicly available that it is exciting to do some number crunching

Floods in Houston I reflect a bit on flooding situation in Houston, based on my previous post yesterday. Turns out, I have been through a lot of these in the past 25 years that I have been living here.

I made a mistake of selecting rental properties without checking the Flood Zone Map in Greater Houston

Single Family Home Rental Market As I am aging, I have been slowly moving a portion of my investment portfolio to Real Estate. There are two main reason for this: Houston Real Estate market is stable,

DEC Cycle (Re-cycle?) I have been thinking about writing this post for a long time. Mind you this is going to be a long post, and may sound repetitive, but I feel this is necessary. The Splinterlands in-game

Ceasefire on "Life Support" The war, which began on February 28, 2026, with a series of U.S. and Israeli strikes, is currently under a fragile, conditional ceasefire mediated by Pakistan and

The "Founders' Trap" in Tech Startups And in Governance Driven DPOS chain like Hive, and 2nd layers like Splinterlands In early-stage companies, the first three investors often demand board seats.

Investing during troubled times Or any other times I often like to think about investing not as a one-time decision, but as a habit that quietly runs in the background of an entire working life. Most of

We are still stuck! So, its been more two months since the US-Israel alliance started the war with Iran (started on Feb 28). I have written a few posts about the importance of strait of Hormuz, here, and

South West Coast Path I have been thinking about doing a field trip along the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. For those who do know know about the South West Coast Path, it is a continuous coastal path

A Tale of Two Suitcases During my day out over the Prague Castle, it rained a lot, which I didn't mind at all. I think it cut down the tourist population a bit. I will describe a specific experience on