You wire $75,500 to the IRS and they don’t even say thank you.

Got almost 70 signups for my language + business talk on Thursday with Small Bets courtesy of Daniel Vassallo and Small Bets.

Looking forward to the chance to talk about topics near and dear to my heart!

Stripe's emails are like here's 7 brutal dictators you may want to send money to

Everyone should have the privilege of having a tweet go viral so you can see the full range of human hallucinations

I had a crazy conversation with a friend who wants to start building startups too, his name is cso and before this he was always a freelancer

The problem he had was he thought every idea he had was not big enough or did not have 'product founder fit'

With that he meant he…

Today’s class will be brought to you by Peter Askew:

Delve into Expired Domain Names

Peter will give us the ins-and-outs of buying expired domains at auctions. How everything works, what to look out for, how to value domains, and so on.

Register: smallbets.com/event/9f551537…

I think newsletters conceptually make authors feel like they need to publish more. But I think a sensitivity to the idea of an inbox means you should actually publish less.

Every day you risk being someone's 100th email. It should be worthwhile.

'There is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive (unless he acted in a cowardly manner) — likewise, there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur'

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Antifragile)

It is certainly distasteful and unethical to sponsor your brand under a competitor's name:

Exactly. It’s like shaming a fallen soldier.

I pay the federal gov about 10X more in taxes than I pay my local+state gov. It should be the other way around.

I find it distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers.

Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibility. Potentially killing someone else’s nascent project reeks of carelessness.

First, do no harm.

All parents should homeschool even if their kids go to school.

The latest good product ruined by Google.

This is what YC founders don’t get.

YC benefits from accidental discoveries of its portfolio, but individual founders who go ALL IN on one thing won’t.

What’s good for the collective (portfolio) is not necessarily good for the individual. It’s a non-ergodic system.

Debt jubilees go back at least 4,000 years, as a way of correcting public instability and other things. They’re a good tool when the circumstances justify it.

But forgiving student debt at taxpayers’ expense without attempting to correct the mess that caused it is just amoral.

Rivian is in trouble, losing $33K on every $80K vehicle it sells. I’m hoping for miracle and they turn this around somehow as their products are excellent.

Forget MRR. Lifetime return is the way to measure commercial success for your projects.

Ideally this would be profit, but close enough since it’s all digital one-person businesses:

I would love an amazon filter that removes products with broken english. Always a sign of bad quality.