Field Notes

A Speech of Hope

This is the most popular post on my first blog - heyheyrenee.com from 2017. It's viewed by people all over the world, every day. It gives me hope.

Health care

Ketogenic (Keto) Diet, Good or Bad?

There are many other diets out there—such as the Paleo diet, Adkins diet, Mediterranean diet, and keto diet. All these diets result in short term weight loss. However, if you’re overweight want to lose weight, what’s best is a diet that ensures weight loss over the long term and improves health.

Health care

The Importance of Immunizations

n 2017, long before COVID, Dr. Robert Pearl said in his book “Mistreated” that the American medical system is based on treating rather than preventing disease, resulting in needless suffering, death, and high costs.

Crypto

The Defiant Manifesto

Bookmark The Defiant Manifesto. It might be the best "who we we are, what we do, what we're gonna do" statement I've ever read.

Crypto

Blockstream, Square to Build Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility

Really great news from Bitcoin Miami today. Crypto is one the greatest inventions of my lifetime. It'll not only change how we think of money. It's going to be the catalyst that advances renewable energy to the mainstream. Hooray for crypto!

Crypto

Privacy Extremists

Privacy Extremists - Known Origin | OpenSeaWe Are Privacy Extremists! Limited edition silk-screen print, designed and hand printed for Paralelní Polis, 2018. OpenSeaOpenSea [https://opensea.io/assets/0xfbeef911dc5821886e1dda71586d90ed28174b7d/210136]

Health care

How Obesity Can be Passed to the Next Generation

Health column by Dr. Greg Feinsinger [https://gregfeinsingermd.com/]. Champion of Whole Food Plant Based Living and righteous person. Since the 1970s, each generation of Americans has become more overweight than the previous generation. In his book “How Not to Diet, “ Dr. Greger summarized part of the cause for this

Web3

Why I bought apes

I'm an OG from a different time (started in tech around ’87) and space. I don't care about the vanity side of this. But I dig the fun. I got in all because in about an hour on Sunday (or was it Saturday?) morning I said

Crypto

Today’s crypto is ’97 dotcom

Circa ’97 taxi drivers were handing out stock tips. VC’s were throwing money at worthless companies with apps nobody really needed. These apps didn’t solve a burning problem, they weren’t even a pretty good. Most didn’t have working code.

Crypto

Letter to cypherpunks

I wrote a version of this what seems like eons ago, because that’s how fast things move in crypto. I’ve met some good people in this space. But I’ve seen a side of this that’s unsavory - influencers who’re really just paid carnival barkers. Downright deceitful stuff. More on this coming.

Crypto

Check Your Financial Privilege

Check Your Financial PrivilegeWhile those comfortable in the dollar bubble deride Bitcoin, the stories of three emerging market users demonstrate why it is so important.Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin News, Articles, Charts, and GuidesAlex Gladstein [https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/check-your-financial-privilege]

Music

Yacht Rock!

This is an older post from heyheyrenee on September 17, 2017. It needs to live here too. #### A while back I was listening to The World Cafe on the way down to Denver. It was then that I learned about Yacht Rock. Here's the link to the episode,