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2023 Fourth Quarter Review
So much reviewing in December! Monthly, quarterly, and annual. This is the Q4 review, and you can check out the other quarterly reviews here: These last three months of the year things really slowed down. A big part of that was dealing with some hard personal and relationship issues. It feels like I a hit…
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📧 The End of Year Spectacular!
This past summer we wrapped up the first season of the Hamburger Business Review podcast, but so much has happened we decided to do a Holiday Special Episode which just came out today. Click here or the image below to listen on Apple Podcasts. For HBR listeners we also made some merch, including a mug, a hat, and my personal…
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Mike Bucks
A friend wanted to encourage betting on the dice game threes during their birthday party. Knowing that betting on dice is more exciting and attractive when playing with physical currency I thought I’d bring a bunch of extra one dollar bills and “sell” them to people using Venmo. But the bank was closed on the…
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2023 Third Quarter Review
Spent a big chunk of Q3 in Portland and wrapped season 1 of Hamburger Business Review. Overall it was a slow and steady quarter with a few weeks spent getting over COVID and feeling the impact of the writer’s strike (which finally ended). Updated my Agile Resolutions for October and started to think a lot…
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📧 What KmikeyM Is For
What is KmikeyM? Over the last 15 years it has evolved into a global community of people who are interested in the intersection of finance and personhood. That is, we recognize the awkward, almost existential necessity of living in the overlap of economic systems and personal autonomy. This kind of mindset is not easy! Generally…
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AAR: HBR Season 1
We’ve finished season 1 of Hamburger Business Review, a shareholder endorsed project (74%). Ten episodes of discussion about a Harvard Business School case study on McDonald’s. Closing the season I feel a growing expertise about the fast food industry, somewhere right on that edge of realizing how much I don’t know. This is an AAR…
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📧 Portland GHH Meetup
Hello Shareholders and Friends, Three updates today: 🥃 Guerrilla Happy Hour I’m wrapping up my time in Portland, OR and on Saturday July 29th Alex and I are hosting a Guerrilla Happy Hour. Come by Dream House at 5pm and say hello, and for every drink you buy we will give you a dollar until either we…
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📧 Los Angeles GHH Meetup
Hello Shareholders! Are you in LA? Then I want to give you money. Well, kind of. On Friday, June 30th shareholder Alex Mahan and I are hosting a Guerrilla Happy Hour at The Fable in Eagle Rock from 5-7pm. We’ve been doing GHH since 2011, and now that we don’t live in the same city we…
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2023 Second Quarter Review
The year is half over, and while I knew this was going to be a quieter year for KmikeyM it still bothers me. KmikeyM has always pushed me to be public about my life and it’s weird to be working on longer form projects (the book and tv/film options and Blippo+) that move at a…
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Super Hero Movies
In 2017 I realized that watching Agents of SHIELD was a form of procrastination. There is something about watching teamwork that I found both relaxing and rewarding, but I knew there was better television and movies to watch. I challenged myself with a vote for “No More Tights” and swore off superhero content. In 2023…
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2023 First Quarter Review
After three months of Agile Resolutions I’m pretty pleased with the progress being made in 2023. I’m still working on the balance between the fun of planning and the grind of doing the work and my process is evolving. Each week I look my monthly goals and set up weekly tasks which I then schedule…
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Hamburger Business Review Series Order
On March 15th, 2023 I ordered a pilot episode of Hamburger Business Review cohosted by me and Zach Rose. The initial pitch that sold me on the idea was that Zach and I would read and the discuss a Harvard Business Review case study about McDonald’s. Harvard Business Review has over thirty case studies about…