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DBA
Last month the shareholders decided I should not (yet) create a corporation. I was surprised, but I appreciate the expertise of my shareholders who voted to reduce complexity. I was also a little sad, because I thought it would be fun to name a company. Then I realized that as a sole proprietor I can […]
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Book Title Bounty
Kevin and I are working on the book proposal for KmikeyM, and while I’m biased, I will say that it’s going pretty well! We have an outline, a sample chapter that we are cleaning up, and our agent seems pretty excited about it. One thing we do not have is a title. I am not […]
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2022 Shareholder Summit
The 2022 Shareholder Summit was on June 11th, 2022. The event was a live series of fireside chats with various stakeholders. Fireside Chats Josh and Jed Josh is my oldest friend and has been a collaborator on many projects throughout my life. He is also an early and major shareholder. He sat down with Jed, […]
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2022 Auction of New Shares
Welcome to the 2022 Auction of New KmikeyM Shares! This is an explanation of how the auction will work. If you’re looking to submit a bid you can do that here. Background There are 100,000 shares of KmikeyM. You can check the Leaderboard to see how many of those shares are currently in the hands […]
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First Doctor Visit in Five Years
I went to the doctor today. It was just the intake appointment for One Medical, which is like a Genius Bar for medicine, and is included in my health plan (membership is normally $199/yr). But even before my first appointment I’m already spiraling… I started by looking up how to prepare for a doctor visit […]
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Social Media Dark Mode
We know social media is bad for society but we use it anyway. As much as I love connecting with people, doing so in an environment that is actively harmful feels like too high a price. How should a person exist online? That is the question I put to my shareholders in April of 2022. […]
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Guerrilla Happy Hour
Economists will tell you that “incentives matter.” As an economic principle you want to find the smallest incentive to achieve the greatest possible outcome. This can be mathematically modeled for large populations to determine how to encourage prosocial behaviors, but how do you apply incentives to your personal life? Guerrilla Happy Hour has been an […]
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KmikeyM @ TEDxVienna
In October of 2021 I was able to go on stage at TEDxVienna and talk about how I became publicly traded. Thankfully they cut out the parts where I cried. I’ll write more on this later but I am excited to be able to share the video with you all!
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Announcing EGG
We’re about three episodes into my new podcast Experimental Garden Group, or “EGG.” Co-hosted by my former business partner, current shareholder, and longtime collaborator Marcus Estes, we’ve also roped in an engineer and Tom Carroll is our producer. With EGG we’re exploring alternative investments, meaning anything outside of stocks, bonds, and cash. And by exploring […]
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Chess Lab
Like many people I got into chess during the pandemic. I’d played as a kid, I watched Queen’s Gambit, and for a while I even experimented with my own version of what I now know is called fairy chess. Trying to make my own version of chess came from two experiences. First was in 2015 […]