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The author of Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good , Chuck Collins makes a rather rare argument by someone, who comes from a rich family to "prove the wealth by giving out the wealth." Throughout his book, Collins describes many personal anecdotes about how big of a difference does a birth to a rich white family in the U.S. really is. He brings out interesting and compelling stories supporting his argument. For example, Collins describes how two seemingly same college students could have vastly different experience throughout their undergraduate careers. As a comparison, he looks at a one student from a wealthy family, who has to mainly focus on academic and professional experience. In the very contrast, another student, who comes from a much more humble background has to work a few part-time jobs throughout his college career, which leaves him with a long, but unimpressive and comp...

A beginner’s guide to Blockchain I wonder why many of my friends and acquaintances still have problems understanding what  Blockchain  technology really is. At the same I wonder why I myself didn’t. If I look back at it, it was two months ago, this past December, when I got struck with the value of the mysterious technology. What is Blockchain?   Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies were the major headlines during the past few months. And even though, they received the popularity, few people truly understand what the whole talk is about. It all starts with one thing.  Blockchain. There are two parts: a block and a chain. The blocks are connected to each other with (you guessed it right) chains in a digital format. There is an important piece that every block has called a hash. A hash is a set of characters that is derived from the information contained in the block. For example, the block of Group 1 has would have the hash that keeps the informa...

Now that we have finished "Growing the Farmer" book, I can make conclusions about this piece and how the author, Kurt Timmermeister, approached it. There were parts that drew me in, but there were also some chapters that either pushed me away as a reader or that I did not quite "feel."  My favorite chapter was on fowls. I found this chapter particularly special. When I was little, I would spend every summer at my aunt’s, who lived far from my hometown and my family. Every time I’d go there, the journey would feel different, yet similar to the previous ones: similar roads, yet grownup me. My aunt would send her son and me to collect chicken eggs every morning and evening, which became almost a ritual to me. The ritual became special to me because of my childhood memories associated with it. For example, one time I entered a room to collect eggs and a cook scared me away. And now, Timmermeister explains in his book the little details about his fow...