Hi there! I’m Matt Henderson—a business owner, investment author and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt. From the beautiful coast of southern Spain, I’ve been sharing ideas about business, money, society, technology and international living since 2006. If this is your first time here, I’ve assembled some of the most popular articles below.
Currently Popular
- The Big Short—A brief summary of the 2008 financial collapse
- How to setup a roaming wifi network over ethernet with an Airport Extreme and Airport Express
- How to setup a WordPress site on a Mac mini running OS X Server Yosemite
- Fixed — Stopped the tccd process in Mac OS X Mavericks from consuming CPU and memory
Business
- What it’s like to take on venture capital investment
- Making apps is fun, but flipping burgers pays better
- When businesses grow to become dysfunctional
- Rego goes viral in Brazil for the wrong reason
- Watch out for no-man’s land on the road to bootstrapping a start-up
- Why we do not sign NDAs at Makalu
- On the pricing of services work
Money
- The Big Short—A brief summary of the 2008 financial collapse
- How to track crowdsource real estate investments in iBank
- How to track LendingClub investment performance in Quicken or iBank
- Investment returns of the average investor — What happens when you don’t stay the course.
- Lifecycle Investing
- An overview of personal investment
Society
- Paying one’s “fair share” of taxes
- Politics, Society and Corruption
- Religion, historical context and common sense
- Why good intentions can fail as a starting point for organizing society
- On the right of government to mandate what we use as money
- The inefficiency of government subsidized medical care
- Fucking politicians—The consequences of having donated to the Ron Paul political campaign
Productivity
Travel
Technology
- My simplified backup system using CrashPlan
- How to keep your data safe with Espionage for Mac OS X
- How to transfer digital assets upon one’s death
- How to protect your home network with a VPN router
- How to create a kill-switched VPN on Mac OS X with Little Snitch
- How to secure Mac and iOS devices with the Cloak VPN
- BitTorrent Sync vs Dropbox
- Plausible deniability and bitcoin wallets
- How to setup a roaming wifi network over ethernet with an Airport Extreme and Airport Express
- My Keyboard Maestro Macros
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
- Teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
- Bronze Medal at the 2011 European Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championship
- Gold Medal at the 2010 European Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship
- Gold Medal at the 2008 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships
- Gold medal at the 2006 European Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship
- Meeting UFC champion Fabricio Werdum
Chess
- 2016 European Youth Chess Championship in Prague
- Lance is the 2016 Spanish National U14 Chess Champion
- 2015 World Youth Chess Championship in Greece
- Lance is the 2015 Spanish National Chess Champion in U14
- Lance is the 2015 Spanish National Chess Championship Runner-Up in U12
- 2014 European Youth Chess Championship in Batumi, Georgia
- Lance is the 2014 Spanish National Champion in Rapid Chess
- Is there an optimal method of chess training?