A new patent for a New Year

Everything changes on New Year's Day

All is quiet on New Year's Day
A world in white gets underway
I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Everything changes on New Year's Day
On New Year's Day

I will be with you again
I will be with you again

Under a blood red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspaper says, says
Say it's true, it's true
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one

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No photos this week, but I hope you’ll be pleased by this image. We kicked off 2025 in style as we were granted this patent for Privacy Chain on New Year’s Eve. Much gratitude to my patent attorney Gary Solomon; we’re now 5 for 5 on patent applications, with more pending.

Now that the patent is granted I can finally talk — and write — openly about this stuff, and why distributed data is going to be the foundation of the Information Age. Much more about this in 2025, including a video series laying out how the Information Age is going to be built on a foundation of distributed data.

I hope you and yours had a wonderful holiday season, and are now rolling happily into 2025. Happy New Year! It’s great to be back!

Next on Perfecting Equilibrium

Sunday, January 12th — Sturgeon! Emergency! I’ll never be mistaken for an upright citizen. I’ve generally followed my own path, regardless of what others thought. People were shocked when I got in so much trouble with the Pentagon that they banned me from the Pacific Rim. But no one was really surprised. I followed some paths out of fascination, and some out of the sheer stubbornness of my Sicilian blood. But I must confess I often simply did what amused me. My favorites are little mental land mines that lay coiled up and hidden in the weeds. Earworms, for example.

I like to make up my own lyrics to popular songs and sing along when others are listening. This works better than you’d expect. When I worked as a chef the entire wait staff would sing along with Foreigner’s hit song about a very large freshwater fish: Sturgeon! Emergency!