Category: Personal Essays

• 1 Month in Brazil

  

  Thoughts, impressions, and musings from living in Brazil for a month.

  Matthew Speiser

  April 27, 2023

  Personal Essays

• I Don’t Understand Why Millennials Aren’t Becoming More Conservative As They Age?

  

  Why don’t you have faith in a system that’s never worked in your favor?

  Matthew Speiser

  February 22, 2023

  Personal Essays

• Tradeoffs

  

  On making trades and learning to live with them.

  Matthew Speiser

  April 13, 2022

  Personal Essays

• Content Nausea

  

  On content addiction.

  Matthew Speiser

  March 23, 2022

  Personal Essays

• The Dumbest Explanation of Blockchain Ever Written

  

  Let’s say I go to the grocery store and buy 100 bags of frozen buffalo chicken tenders.

  Matthew Speiser

  December 21, 2021

  Personal Essays

• A Sunday Morning in Adult Brooklyn

  

  A truly lovely neighborhood.

  Matthew Speiser

  November 27, 2021

  Personal Essays

• The Iberian Peninsula

  

  A good peninsula.

  Matthew Speiser

  October 30, 2021

  Personal Essays

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• Life as a Transaction

  

  I was a child long after I legally became an adult.

  Matthew Speiser

  August 8, 2021

  Personal Essays

• On Time

  

  I’ve scared myself by aging.

  Matthew Speiser

  June 17, 2021

  Personal Essays

• Costa Rica

  Day 1-2 Melissa and I touched down in Costa Rica around 10 PM, took a shuttle to the rental car facility to get our car (a Nissan Versa), paid for rental liability insurance ($300, and required by law), and we were on our way…to downtown San Jose. The drive from San Jose airport to San…

  Matthew Speiser

  February 5, 2020

  Personal Essays