Taught myself to cut stair stringers today. Not perfect but pretty ok for a first go.

I DGAF about the clarity act.

🚨 Ok, it’s a day late but here is episode 17 of Love & Hard Money. 🚨 I feel like I missed something in this one. Like directionally I said what I wanted to say, but there was a bridge missing that would help people connect to the idea of hard money as a tool of social justice. 🤷‍♂️ Let me know what you think. Worth the price of admission? (It’s free). https://fountain.fm/episode/PBgvVlw85kP5NDmvP2mY

I had meetings today so this weeks episode of Love & Hard Money will come out later in the week. If you can’t wait that long, I get it! Heres a banger from a few weeks ago to help you get through the darkness until we can be together again.

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Why do smart people go quiet when you explain inflation to them? They hear the words. They understand the logic. And then they change the subject.I...

The largest container ship in the world is the MSC Irina. She carries up to 24,346 TEU’s (20’ equivalent units). She’s 399.9 meter long and 61.3 meters wide making her far too big to transit the Panama Canal. She mostly serves Europe to east Asia routes. She was built in China in 2023 and is operated by MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) based in Geneva in cooperation with a Chinese state owned bank. The vessel is flagged in Liberia 🇱🇷 which is common for tax optimization. There is no public information on the cost of this vessel but similar ships cost $240M. She’s currently in SE Asia with an ETA to Singapore of May 13. On average a TEU carries $54,500 of goods so with an average shipment of 19,000 TEU’s she is carrying over $1.05 Billion of merchandise per sailing. #shipping

I’m only on Nostr and LinkedIn (eww). If you’re still on X and have enjoyed Love & Hard Money, would you be willing to link to an episode over there for me so I can test the difference in audience reach? If you do it, let me know here so I can keep an eye on downloads. Screenshot it and I will tip you 500 sats. Below are three of my favorites so far: https://fountain.fm/episode/tGyeiPU8FHEKVwVUHYRf https://fountain.fm/episode/Z4Rscnex98pPYLJ18hm5 https://fountain.fm/episode/DVdFZBdRBgTZqrSSmUFa

You know how to tell the difference between a business creating value and one that’s just extracting rents. If they genuinely thank you for your business and ask you how they can do better they serve you. Think about customer service at the DMV and contrast that with buying something at a farmer’s market.

There’s a lot of worry that AI is going to dumb us down. I’ve been using it pretty consistently for 2+ years and I can confidently say it’s lifting me up, not dragging me down. I still think deeply about subjects but now I do it conversationally instead of solo. It’s changed my business, my relationships, my health and allowed me to take on projects as part-time hobbies that would have been full time jobs 5 years ago. I’m excited about the future but all I see around me is nihilism.