Ian King

3 weeks ago | banyanhill.com | Ian King

When I moved to Florida, I was looking forward to warm winters, plenty of beach time and zero state income tax. What I wasn’t thinking about was Florida’s monumental contributions to space exploration. That’s why I was briefly convinced Earth was being attacked by aliens. Shortly after I moved here, I was driving up the turnpike when I saw a glowing arc of light slicing across the sky. It was moving slowly at first, just hovering there. It was way too big to be a plane.

3 weeks ago | banyanhill.com | Ian King

If you wanted to start an online business at the turn of the century, you would have had to shell out $100,000 on developers, servers, and data storage. Ten years later, that same online business might have cost you 1/10th the amount as the cloud allowed us to pay subscription fees for necessary software-as-a-service. Fast forward to today, and those costs continue to drop.

1 month ago | banyanhill.com | Ian King

Last week, I posted a picture from 2014, soon after I returned to the U.S. after spending six months in Nicaragua. Thank you for the feedback on the beard!Here’s another one with the dormant Maderas volcano in the background. I know I might look a little lost at sea here, but just the opposite is true. You see, I went on that trip right after I walked away from Wall Street. After almost two decades of trading, I was burned out.

1 month ago | banyanhill.com | Ian King

We made it through months of wedding planning without ever raising our voices. We negotiated the invitations with laughter and joy. We calmly made our way through the wedding rehearsal, and the ceremony and reception went off without a hitch. Now we were newlyweds. All that was left was to go on our honeymoon. What could possibly go wrong? It was smooth sailing from here…That is, until we got to the airport and realized my wife’s passport had expired.

1 month ago | banyanhill.com | Ian King

When Superstorm Sandy hit the New York area in 2012, parts of New York City suffered a week-long blackout. I was living in Brooklyn at the time, and I was lucky enough to have power. That meant that my apartment turned into a workspace for a half-dozen friends who had lost their power. Now, having a half-dozen friends crash at your place is fun for a few days.