Mar 21Mint The CoinGenerated from Google Bard The trillion dollar coin is a hypothetical solution to the debt ceiling crisis. The idea is that the Treasury Department would mint a coin with a face value of $1 trillion and then deposit it at the Federal Reserve. …Mint The Coin2 min readMint The Coin2 min read
Mar 6Candidate QuestionnaireBrookfield Public Library For the Growing Community Media 2023 Election Guide Name: John Edgar Mihelic Age: 41 Preferred Contact Information: mihelic4brookfield@gmail.com Previous Political Experience: I have voted in every election for which I have been eligible, except for one primary where I was working late. I have also volunteered for…Libraries9 min readLibraries9 min read
Feb 14Remote WorkThe Story of remote work is a story of tradeoffs. Many of us in the workforce had to deal with a sudden jerk and reinvent our processes on the fly in March of 2020. While it gave us the impetus, it did not give us an intentionality about our moves. …Remote Work3 min readRemote Work3 min read
Feb 2Cycles : For CJMA week turns into a month turns Into memories coming back When the commercials remind you And yet The cycles of the seasons Make the calendar a talisman — The most hopeful day Is December twenty-second. The second shortest day But the first in months Longer than the last That reminder That things get better If only a little every day.Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Jan 30Walmart: Benefits of the Blockchain in the Supply ChainI must admit to being something of a skeptic on the blockchain. The first I really became aware of the technology was a decade ago, when the first hype cycle for bitcoin was raging. For me, writing in “A skeptical look at Bitcoin” (Mihelic 2013), I argued that bitcoin itself…Blockchain Technology6 min readBlockchain Technology6 min read
Jan 20Member-onlyGender QueerThe Streisand Effect came about from the singer Barbra Streisand not wanting to have pictures of one of her houses posted on the internet, and through her complaining about it, more people saw her house than if she had not said a darn thing about the picture of her house. …Gender2 min readGender2 min read
Jun 24, 2022The Politics of LoveI know that not everyone shares my personal politics, which are to the left of the general public. There may be places that they stand in contradiction to each other, and some things are hard to reconcile but I imagine most people’s personal politics aren’t 100% ideologically coherent — we…Love1 min readLove1 min read
Jun 21, 2022Member-onlyLet Me Down Softly: Pynchon’s “Bleeding Edge”I had this thing pre-ordered back in 2012. I was excited for a new Pynchon. And then I got a few pages in and gave up for whatever reason. That was a decade ago now. I did pick it back up and went back at it. …Pynchon2 min readPynchon2 min read
Jun 21, 2022Member-onlyThe Unhidden Curriculum: Bellemare’s “Doing Economics”Back when I was a baby in undergrad, I saw my professors and wanted to have their job. How nice, I thought, it must be to only teach a few classes a semester and have all that free time. I sought out graduate school and even then, my main waring…Economics2 min readEconomics2 min read
May 31, 2022Member-onlyWe Pluribus UnumNo Thin Blue Lines I want to talk about this flag but first I want to talk about infrastructure. I live in a suburb that was founded in the late nineteenth century. Some of the houses date from then but there are a lot more that were built in the postwar boom in suburbanization…Police3 min readPolice3 min read
