Tag: finance
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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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Trapped in UnSAFE Conditions
When I learned that Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad, volunteered with DOGE to help gut services at the VA, I faced an ethical crisis. Trapped in a SAFE with no exit, I offered to surrender my investment at a loss. He refused. This is a story of value vs. values.
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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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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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July Challenge: Track Spending
The July Challenge was Record and Share Every Purchase which won at 33% support over “read five books” (21%) and “Go to a different LA Neighborhood every day” (15%)… so I made a spreadsheet. Then Lillian did her livestream where she talked about her finances and so I kind of invited myself on as a…
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Disclosures
A list of my investments as of December 11th, 2020. I sell shares of myself as part of an experiment in personal capitalism. You can read more about that here. I use various hardware and software tools which I list here (but update infrequently). What follows is a list of financial investments organized by platform.…
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Purchase Log During Stay-At-Home Order
🧅40 lb of vidalia onions $99.95 🎁AirPods Pro for Kathryn (gift) $253.28 🚴♂️Bike repair + new tire at Cocos Variety $54.67 ☕Carnelian Coffee $41.00 🍕Take out pizza from Hail Mary $55.00 🚴♂️Quadlock Bike Mount $53.96 🎮Battletech game $5.00 🩲PUMP! underwear $79.00 🎮Kickstarter for new project from game creators I like $8.72 😷 Masks for Masks…
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CTRL ALTZ: The Tannery
Alternative assets are investments that aren’t stock, bonds, or certificates. Those are known as traditional assets, leaving everything else the “alternative:” antiques precious metals stamps coins baseball arts shares in privately held startups “An alternative investment is anything that you wouldn’t hear a financial advisor at a bank steer a client toward. These investments are…
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Financial Civil Disobedience
PART 1: Onion Futures I bought The Futures by Emily Lambert because I wanted to know more about the Onion Futures Act, a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as motion picture box office receipts. This is a stupid law. A futures contract is simply a legal agreement…
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If We Save Pizza, We Save America
America loves pizza. If we assume that pizza follows a traditional “Pyramid of Quality” ratio, which posits that there is always more bad than good, then the world of pizza can be split into five sections. Garbage Pizza is the quality of a school lunch cafeteria. Corporate Pizza is the major chains (Domino’s, Little Ceaser’s,…
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How Much Control Do You Need?
Disclaimer: I love the concept of shareholder control so much I married it. Well, not really… But I did enact a system modeled on a market economy to give control of my romantic life to other people. I’ve been experimenting with the idea of “shareholder control” since 2008 when I allowed my friends to vote on my…
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Re-Thinking the Game of Monopoly
It would be hard to simplify capitalism further than Monopoly. The game attempts to express the ruthlessness of raw capitalism by declaring that whoever has the most money at the “end” is the winner. While it’s true our culture proclaims the rich as our greatest heroes, the method of financial gain in Monopoly is not…
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