Mustafa Suleyman

In late January, 2025, Professor Alan Ross invited me to return to UC Berkeley. He wanted me to speak with his students about my journey through prison and tell them about the Prison Professors Charitable Corporation. Carole and I intended to drive from Orange County to the Bay area, and we agreed that it would […]

Davenport/Mittal

While running, I like to listen to books on Audible. It helps me learn while I’m simultaneously striving to stay fit. Yesterday I finished listening to All-In on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence, a book by Tom Davenport and Nitin Mittal. I did not meet those authors, but they taught me […]

Saifedean Ammous

While in prison, I learned a great deal by reading. Books helped me escape the environment and participate in the broader society, or at least learn from leaders. I encourage readers to write reports about what they learn. Those in our community may use Prison Professors Talent, a free resource for people to memorialize all […]

Jay Rae

While attending the Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai, in October of 2025, I got to meet Jay Rae. Even though we’d just connected, Jay and his partner, Diana, welcomed me warmly. We conversed about their role in spreading mass adoption of Bitcoin and growing the Web 3.0 technology, and I told them about my work […]

Joshua Johnson

Recently, while on a visit to Dubai, I had the privilege of meeting many influential leaders, including Juan Carlos Reyes, president of the National Commission of Digital Assets of El Salvador. He introduced me to Joshua Johnson, a global entrepreneur and innovator in the field of “tokenizing” real-world assets on blockchain. I learned a great […]

Christel Buchanan

While visiting CZ in the United Arab Emirates, I didn’t only get to see Dubai, I also got the privilege of meeting some of the most influential people in Crypto at a small house party in Abu Dhabi. Two of those people include Christel and her husband Mike Buchanan, who live in Singapore. From the […]

Saqr Ereiqat

In an earlier entry, I wrote about my friendship with CZ and his invitation for me to visit him in Dubai during the fall of 2024. While there, I got the privilege of attending a small house party in Abu Dhabi, which is about one hour away from Dubai. While there, I got to meet […]

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao

In January 2024, I immersed myself in research on Bitcoin after reading forecasts that the Securities and Exchange Commission would soon authorize Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The more I studied, the more the concept intrigued me—so much so that I searched for the original White Paper that Satoshi Nakamoto published in 2008. Despite not having […]

Satoshi Nakamoto

When I reflect on my years in prison, I often think about the systems and barriers that block people from progress. In a society that claims to value human rights, the way our prison system denies access to education, communication, and tools for self-betterment feels like a contradiction. While I made it my mission to […]

Michael Saylor

I first heard of Michael Saylor in the late 1990s, through CNBC and publications like Investor’s Business Daily. Back then, he was getting a lot of press for founding MicroStrategy, one of the fastest-growing tech companies of the era. When the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s, MicroStrategy’s rise slowed. For years, I didn’t […]