Kirjahaku

Who is Wyatt Osgood? In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Galt's Gulch was a physical place where the best minds could retreat--withdraw their skills and support from a corrupt system. Today, distributed ledger technologies such as Bitcoin, allow anyone to "Go Galt" when, where, and how they choose. There's no need for a utopian land to escape to. And what happens if the movers and shakers, the ones who create the technology, the ones who implement it, decide to use it for their own ends? What if they make their transactions invisible? What if they choose their location, their profession, the people they work with based on shared values and merit without any concern for government sanctions or rules? The fight for freedom takes on a new form and its main battles are fought in a digital arena, with the freedom fighters asserting their right to privacy while governments and international organizations are left trying to find ways to control transactions that are all but invisible. Featuring a foreword by Adam Kokesh.

The nightlife is the rightlifeHe makes his living playing poker and although the game stays the same, everywhere he goes the house rules are different.and so are the dangers.There is always some kind of hustle going on and it takes time to learn the players, the movers and shakers, the traps and pitfalls. His helper is a whore named Chatty Kathy and the people who make things happen are gangsters, politicians, and petty officials. And it's Asian rules. And this time it's serious.Poker in Phnom Penh.

Travel opens our eyes and hearts and mindWhen we take the time to see, the world looks different from within different cultures.This collection of six, diverse short stories from two travelers will take you to Thailand, Cambodia, Mexico, Cuba, and Colombia to glimpse this changing world through their eyes.Powerful stories of crime and passion, resignation, love, death, and confusion about all of them.

It's just a piece of an old watch But it's a piece of history. The bezel has been missing for a long time, but the watch is valuable and part of the culture -- the new owner wants it found. The job provides a chance for Lex Craig, world traveler, buyer and seller of odd things, to save his business. Perhaps a last chance.But seeking often leads to the discovery of the unintended, things that change life in unexpected ways. Lex's trip down the river of time into what has almost become folklore, puts him in contact with real people of the present, and new challenges and opportunities.A short story.

Tropical heat, money and lustHenry Miller once said, "One's destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things." When a programmer on an extended vacation in Cartagena, Colombia, lets a rich and chatty American expat tell his story, it wasn't interesting or particularly impressive. But, when he meets the man's beautiful assistant and hears rumors that the man has a dark secret and has protection, he is intrigued and begins to think of ways to bring him down, to stop him. This story of high-tech vigilante justice was inspired by a steamy tropical, South American atmosphere, cold drinks, and lithe, sweaty bodies. It's the story of how, ultimately, a man reacts to the temptation to deliver justice and satisfy his own desires (to possess both the tangible and intangible), and in the process, overcoming common sense and perhaps whatever common decency he once had.But then, betrayal for a worthy cause can taste mighty sweet even if its never quite clear, at the end, who seduced whom you can still have a happy ending.