In the summer of 2013, I bid farewell to Seattle, then, after a near decade-long absence, I returned. Before leaving the Pacific Northwest, I had already noticed a lot of changes happening throughout the city and surrounding areas. Amazon, with the city council playing their part, had embarked on a…

After a visit to Galway, Ireland and seeing various references to Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882–1928) and visiting his gravesite, I decided to do a little research and learn a little about this Irish writer. …

In 2017, YouTube changed their Partner Program (YPP) policy on ad revenue sharing, so that in order to make money from AdSense on YouTube, a channel needs to have over 1,000 subscribers and at least 4,000 public watch hours to be eligible to sign up for YPP. …

Yes, we podcast because we enjoy it. Podcasts are a great way to get your voice out there and share your thoughts, opinions, and ideas with the world. Podcasts can be a method for promoting your brand. They can be a way to get a message across to the public…

During my time in the business world, as well as while owning a small business, I have conducted hundreds of interviews — or at least it feels like it was in the hundreds. The interviews have ranged from Baristas at Starbucks to Engineers at Microsoft. For my photography studio, I…

When visiting Argentina, I ran across a graveyard with a lot of famous Argentinians in it. One of them was for a guy named Benito Quinquela Martín. Not knowing who he was, I did a little research. Benito Quinquela Martín was an Argentine painter born in La Boca, Buenos Aires…

Online financial institutions like Axos, Revolut, Discover and N26 provide an alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar banks, by performing all the banking duties online or through the mobile phone app instead of a physical location. The advantage of offering services in this method is that they can reduce their cost, which…

Marie Laveau, also known as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, is one of the most well known and most renowned figures from the city. She was born a free woman of mixed color, in the late 1700s, and raised a devout Catholic. …

When I first heard about NFTs (Non-fungible Tokens), I had a similar thought as the one I had when first hearing about Bitcoin, which was ‘that doesn’t make sense’ and ‘it won’t last.’ With Bitcoin, it is years later, and it is still going strong, having reached a peak of…