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Choose Your Own Case Study
We’re launching the second season of Hamburger Business Review, our podcast, newsletter, and burger business enthusiast community by letting you decide which case study we analyze. Since we started Season 1 looking at the evolution of McDonald’s adaptation to the social concerns around the capital “E” environment we thought we’d pair that with a look…
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McJob
Last year I earned less than $20,000 and I’m on track to make even less this year. This precipitous drop in my income comes on the heels of a very difficult last few years for my highly skilled screenwriter partner (whose career was interrupted by the writer’s strike and the following slowdown in television development).…
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Speculative Investments
Now that the Shareholder Poker Tournament is only once a month I’ve found I need a little more “speculative investing” in my life. Initially I tried playing some scratch-its but that’s a pretty cheap thrill. Then I went the other direction, and using my expertise from Hamburger Business Review decided to buy $100 of McDonald’s stock during a…
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Summer Camp
Hello from the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. We’re on our way back to Los Angeles after spending a few weeks in Niagara-On-The-Lake in Canada. Niagara-On-The-Lake, or NOTL1 (pronounced “nottle” like bottle) has become “Summer Camp” for me and Kathryn. It’s a perfect escape from the heat of Los Angeles and we get to ride bikes, watch tennis,…
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The 3 Miracles
Kathryn and I have been working on the if/come project and one of the things Kathryn said that deserves it’s own post is the three miracles in Hollywood: Miracle 1: 💰 You get paid. And beyond just getting paid, we’re talking about getting paid to work on your idea. Because most of the work you do is for…
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Space Gambling
Star Trek: The Next Generation is famously Gene Roddenberry’s utopian fantasy of a world without money (listen to this Marketplace episode, or read Manu Saadia’s Trekonomics or The Economics of Star Trek by Rick Webb). This idea got sidestepped in ST:DS9 with a deep dive into Ferengi culture and their love of “latinum”, but staying within TNG for a minute, how…
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1000 Episodes
To celebrate reaching 1000 episodes of the 3 Minute Review podcast we turned the microphone on a few of our listeners. Getting to 1000 3 Minute Review started back in 2019 as a movie review podcast. This was in a special time for seeing movies in the theater and we enjoyed blockbusters like Hobbes &…
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Election for Board Seats
This is a record of the first election for the shareholder elected seats on the Board of Directors. The Process The election will happen in three parts. Part 3: The Final Vote The final vote ended after a live interactive elimination event on Sunday, July 14th 2024 at 2pm. The remaining three candidates, Beau Gunderson,…
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The Board of Directors
This post will be updated as the board of directors is built out and defined. Last updated August 6, 2024. We will soon incorporate Membership Shares as approved by shareholder vote, and as part of that initiative we are also creating tiered levels of support to create a sustainable base for KmikeyM. These tiers will…
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How I’m Using ChatGPT
It took me a while to figure out how to use AI tools as something more than just a fun distraction. I mean, initially the fun distraction part was REALLY fun and REALLY distracting. I was building out whole universes with ChatGPT and following characters families through generations. What I’ve found with using AI though…
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📧 Build Week 2024
Last year we made a bunch of changes to the main page, to how you can buy shares, created new alerts, and started experimenting with Policy Votes. This year the focus is on building out features to make KmikeyM more sustainable, including adding the new Membership Shares proposal that passed with 81% approval. Due to some availability constraints we’re…
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Playing With Corporate Control
After the success of the Membership Shares proposal let’s look at how corporations use share classes to maintain total control of their companies. After looking at Meta and Alphabet I was curious how much control Zuckerberg actually has. So I made a chart of all the shares of Meta and the corresponding voting power. 83%…