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Take a profound and distant journey. Call it:

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I will guide you to the intersection of travel, technology, and transformation.

The WanderLearn podcast will compel you to go beyond your comfort zone.

I wander all over the world and I share what I learn with you! In so doing, I hope you'll be inspired to do the same. Travel is the best university.

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Gary Arndt, a famous world-traveler, has been to chaotic places, but this week, chaos came to his hometown, Minneapolis.

Gary's Instagram Stories provide great up to the minute photos and videos of the riots.

We talked last night while we heard rioting outside his window. On this recording, you'll hear sirens, honking horns, and helicopters.

George Floyd's death sparked riots throughout the USA, but the epicenter is in Gary's backyard.

In the second half of the interview, we switch topics to talk about his diet.

I've had 2 vegans on my podcast (Sym and Gehn), so Gary will provide a different perspective since his diet is the antithesis of veganism.

ABOUT THE AUDIO: Before recording, I was experimenting with my audio setup and I forgot to reset. As a result, my audio is poor. Sorry about that. Luckily, Gary does most of the talking and he sounds fine.

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Flying to the South Pole and then to the North Pole in a small plane is extremely dangerous.

Robert DeLaurentis, who is known as the Zen Pilot, is on the brink of pulling this off.

I caught up with him when he was grounded in Spain during the Coronapocolypse.

By the time this airs, he should be in Sweden.

He plans to fly over 3 key places around the North Pole in July 2020.

Track his journey on his website.

Questions I asked the Zen Pilot

UPDATE: I wrote this article in early 2020 but updated a bit in mid-2024.

There is a US election, the World Cup, and the Olympics every four years. They don't all happen in the same year, but they each have a four-year cycle.

Today, there's another event that happens once every year that few talk about: the Bitcoin halving.

To celebrate, I'll give a simplified explanation of what the halving is and why it's significant.

Afterward, I will turn to a more fundamental question: why is Bitcoin (BTC) worth more than a dollar, and why do I keep talking about it given that I'm mostly known for my travels?

As of today (May 11, 2020), 80,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.

In 2018, 80,000 Americans died of the flu. It was a bad flu year.

It's fascinating how we look at death.

The Infection Fatality Rate of COVID-19 is about 10 times worse than influenza.

Therefore, if we didn't shelter in place, perhaps we would have lost 10x more Americans than the 2018 flu season, which would mean about 1 million deaths.

I've been called callous. But imagine if:

We treated airline flights like rocket launches - and took 7 hours to go through all the safety checks.
We set a 10 MPH speed limit nationwide.
We mandated a nonstop shelter in place to stop the 5 million deaths from communicable diseases.

Such draconian measures would save thousands of lives. But would you be in favor of them?

I love Bitcoin. Nothing would make me happier than to see one of Plan B's optimistic stock-to-flow (S2F/STF) models become an accurate predictor of Bitcoin's price.

Up until now, there has been a non-spurious relationship between stock-to-flow and bitcoin's price. That's one reason it's such a compelling narrative.

I hope I'm wrong, but, inevitably, BTC's stock-to-flow models will diverge dramatically from their predicted trendline. This article doesn't distinguish between the original S2F model and the latest S2FX model since they share a similar concept.

I am writing this while the world is counting down the hours to bitcoin's third halving, which will occur on May 12, 2020. BTC costs nearly $9,000.

EDIT/UPDATE: Jump to my annual updates, where I reflect on how bitcoin's price has performed since writing this article - and I look ahead to 2024 and beyond. This article is still worth reading and relevant because the 8 flaws still exist in Plan B's stock-to-flow model.