Tag: publicly traded person
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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…
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Veteran’s Day Fundraiser
Georgie and I are raising $1000 for This Able Veteran, a service dog organization benefitting United States military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. If you care about pets and vets please: make a donation via paypal (link in sidebar) upload your receipt here (or just email it to me) we will match all donations…
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Vienna
The national capital, largest city, and one of nine states of Austria, Vienna is Austria’s most populous city, with about 2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of the country’s population. It’s the cultural, economic, and political centre and the 6th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union. (wikipedia) 🇦🇹…
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Kill Tuesday
Back in 2010 Josh Berezin wrote, “Workplace trends in the Western world include: higher hourly productivity, along with an increasing number of work hours. And to what end? Historically high levels of wealth disparity, along with record unemployment.” His proposed end was to move to a six day week with the belief that this would…
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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:…
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Money – Book Club Notes
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club The Shareholder Book Club met on Saturday afternoon to discuss Money: The True Story of a Made up Thing by Jacob Goldstein. There were a few links shared that I wanted to add to…
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Money – Conclusion
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club the conclusion of Money, The True Story of a Made-Up Thing “Money is a choice, or a set of choices.” says Jacob Goldstein. That’s a pretty great answer to the question of “What is money?” …
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Money – Chapter 15
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club The Radical Dream of Digital Cash Jacob Goldstein starts with an important reminder: “Cash is a beautiful technology.” Then we get start our journey with David Chaum, the inventor of digital cash, and holder of…
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Money – Chapter 14
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club A Brief History of the Euro (and Why the Dollar Works Better) I thought this chapter was going to be boring because for the first few pages I didn’t really highlight anything or take…
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Money – Chapter 13
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club How Two Guys in a Room Invented a New Kind of Money This chapter seems like it could be a whole book. Or a 10-part television series on Netflix. I mean, I guess it…