Volume Goals: 260 miles, 12 essays, 21 dates, 365 daily notes
A reflection on 2025: achievements, challenges, and gratitude
Sam Broner
Generally Happy
Latest posts
Stablecoins unlock the bank ledger upgrade cycle — and new payment scenarios
How stablecoins will help banks move beyond old core ledger systems
Three Questions That Helped Me When Seeking Career Advice
Instead of asking what someone likes about their job, ask about their day-to-day reality and what success looks like in their industry.
Things I Recommend in 2025
Items I recommend frequently in home, tech, travel, and software.
Two Career Tools: The 45/55 Decision and Preparing Harder
A framework for making tough career decisions and a tactical approach to becoming an expert in any niche
Universal identity for agents
Why agents need a portable, neutral identity primitive ('passport')
How stablecoins become money: Liquidity, sovereignty, and credit
A framework for how stablecoins evolve from a payments tool into 'money' (liquidity, sovereignty, credit)
The month fintechs embraced stablecoins
A timeline and synthesis of the spring 2025 wave of stablecoin announcements and why they mattered
Train & Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi & E-Ink
A dashboard with the weather forecast and top headlines is an easy, but useful little project.
587 Miles, 803 Meetings, and 14 Dates: My completely sane system for personal analytics
A deeper dive than you needed into how I create systems and measure goals
How stablecoins will eat payments, and what happens next
Businesses that are harmed by the today's payment options will adopt stablecoins, disrupting the payments industry
Malleable software and the agency gap
Malleable software is here, but do people want to build their own software?
A useful framework for understanding stablecoins: Banking history
Understanding the richness and limitations of the stablecoin design space through the history of banking: what worked, what didn’t, and why
Engineering is Control. Product is Coordination. Venture is Ambiguity.
Career advice for those considering engineering, product, or venture roles.
The End of the Beginning: Thoughts on moving back home
Thoughts on moving back home and the beginning my next chapter
Did you really think Google would just give you a browser?
The strategic chioces behind the worlds most used software
Building an E-Ink Weather & News Display
A simple dashboard with the weather forecast and top headlines is an easy, but useful little project.
Snowpack with Fluid Framework
Rebuilding the Fluid Framework Hello World with the Snowpack build tool
Static Websites: Why and What
The considerations that go into building a static web app.
International Auditing on a Budget: Auditing a Paraguayan Non-Profit
How I help the Superkids Foundation manage its finances with Google Sheets, Twilio, and Whatsapp.
Shattered Glass
Making art with paint, tempered glass, and a hammer.
Hello World
First post on this blog. Appologies if it's broken: I'm having fun.