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From time-to-time, I publish additional writings (usually rants) on Medium. Click on a post below to open the Medium article in a separate tab.

  • Charlie Kirk Was A Zealot. Don’t Be Like Charlie.

    I am sure that my title is going to piss some people off. That’s because the word “zealot” carries some bad connotations. And I am not writing this to throw gasoline on a fire that has been burning for decades. No, I am writing this to, hopefully, […]

  • Blockcast: Laying the Foundation For An Open Capacity Marketplace

    If you take a step back and look at Blockcast, you may think, “oh, just another CDN”. And, in some ways, you’d be right. Blockcast is a Content Delivery Network. Only it’s anything but “just another”. Many of the core technologies built into […]

  • Has Content Delivery Become Too Complicated?

    The use of CDNs is almost like a roller coaster–the industry moves from using one CDN, to using many (multi-CDN delivery), to using just a few. We think it’s safe to say that the industry has settled on the necessity of a multi-CDN strategy and, […]

  • The Only Sermon You’ll Ever Need to Hear

    So let’s just make one thing clear.I am an atheist.That’s right, I don’t believe in God. Any god. Gods. Divinity.But I do recognize that many of the holy books contain learnings which have bearing on our civilization. These teachings can be about […]

  • What’s The OCM (And Why It’s Needed)

    Graph representing digital market fluctuations. Licensed from Adobe Stock.Once upon a time, in a conference room far, far away, some CDN folks, along with some ISPs, and a few technology providers got together to try and figure out a way to work better […]

  • What Is My Civic Duty?

    Exploring Our Responsibility to the World Around UsProtestors (from Adobe Stock; generated by AI)Humans will naturally gravitate to living with other humans. That’s because humans are, at their core, social animals. We like being with each other. But […]

  • [Content Delivery Under the Hood#3] Understanding Peer-to-Peer Content Delivery (and Why Blockcast…

    [Content Delivery Under the Hood#3] Understanding Peer-to-Peer Content Delivery (and Why Blockcast Isn’t a P2P Network)Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have existed for decades. Popularized by the likes of Napster (until it was shut down), which allowed […]

  • Why I Don’t Use AI to Write

    Robot writing somethingI’ve always been a writer. I wrote my first novel in high school (220 pages of absolute garbage; yes, I still have a copy; no, you can’t see it), I went to college studying to be a novelist (where I wrote my second novel that I […]

  • [Content Delivery Under the Hood#2] The Many Flavors of Content Delivery Networks

    In the first post of this multi-part series, we dug into how content delivery works. In this second post, we look at the many different ways content delivery networks can be architected.What’s A CDN?Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are a crucial piece […]

  • What’s The REAL Difference Between Republicans and Democrats?

    On the eve of a momentous election in the United States, I felt like I needed to write this although I’ve come to this conclusion quite some time ago. And just so we don’t misunderstand each other, if you are expecting some deep analysis and insight, […]

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