Tag: capitalism
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Vote: $5K in Dead Internet Theory
Should the KmikeyM shareholder fund be deployed into someone else’s project? The proposal: $5K as first money in on Paizley Lee’s Dead Internet Theory, a series of in-person retro cyber-café-like experiences.
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KmikeyM Names Austin as Custodian of the Degen Account
Austin has been appointed as custodian of the KmikeyM degen account. He will be managing the account’s shares and cash, trading to provide liquidity and make profits. This initiative integrates two diverse communities.
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Welcoming The Degens
Something Weird Happened A few weeks ago, someone created a token called $KMIKEYM on bags.fm. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t authorize it. I had nothing to do with it. It felt like a scam. People were reaching out telling me about “free money” (never a phrase that inspires confidence). I researched the platform.…
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90 Days in “Heads Down Mode”
I’ve been focused on the startup work at Vibes DIY, learning more about AI-assisted coding and doing a lot of video production. It’s been 90 days and I’m starting to come out of “heads down mode.”
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Blippo+
Blippo+ has launched on Playdate. It’s a surreal streaming service from Planet Blip, part sci-fi TV experiment, and part video game. Created by YACHT with a dream team of collaborators (including me as Executive Producer) it’s now live, with a full-color PC/Switch version coming in fall 2025.
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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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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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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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Let’s Talk About Snacks
In 2016 I acquired a 51% stake in Snacker.News, a news feed style site about snacks and food. The other 49% is owned by the Snacker.News CTO Josh Yaganeh. Since the acquisition we’ve experimented with a number of new endeavors under the Snacker.News banner including: Original content under the ‘Snack Lords‘ banner A new logo,…
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Reimagining Capitalism – I Hate This Book
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Reimagining Capitalism, by Rebecca Henderson. Join the K5M Book Club These are my notes on Chapter 2 but we decided to quit reading this book because it is awful. The shareholders voted to quit with 96% approval. So there will be no more notes…
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Reimagining Capitalism – Chapter 1
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Reimagining Capitalism, by Rebecca Henderson. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 1: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?” Prologue I didn’t love the prologue. I mean, I get it, she loves trees, but the understanding she…
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Reimagining Capitalism – Book Club Plan
My copy of Reimagining Capitalism arrived and I read the first chapter today. To stay on track and read the book in one month we only need to read about 10 pages a day. Looking at when the chapters end here is a loose reading schedule and when you can might expect my chapter notes:…