My grandma wrote me a check for $50. Great, right? Wrong. As a member of the Venmo generation, cashing this check was one of the most needlessly complicated things I can remember doing. I had to:1) Sign the back of the check (touchscreens outnumber pens in my life)2) Locate my checkbook, look up how it works, write the check number, amount, and date down (buried in back of closet)3) Buy an envelope and stamp from the post office (last time I went to a post office....2014?)4) Address the envelope to my bank, and find a mailbox to drop it in (thankfully those things are everywhere but I've never noticed them before)Phew! Poor Grandma's been waiting weeks for me so she can balance her checkbook. There must be a startup that does this for you by now?Also, I read Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer and it was great. He set out to write a book about faith and ended up zooming in on Mormons, since they have the most well-documented history, and a fundamental tenant of revelations direct from God (leading to dogmatic paradoxes - did God tell me or the priest the truth?) Very thought provoking - is the zealot psychotic or just pious? What's the difference?