Diego Segura
@diegosegura
designer, writer, founder. currently obsessed with monetary theory, high finance, corporate law, regretting dropping out of high school, and sudoku. author of a 2018 book, “the dropout manifesto.”
diegosegura.meDiego Segura
I should mention one sort of initial tactic that usually doesn't work: the Big Launch. I occasionally meet founders who seem to believe startups are projectiles rather than powered aircraft, and that they'll make it big if and only if they're launched with sufficient initial velocity. They want to launch simultaneously in 8 different publications,... See more
Paul Graham • Do things that don't scale : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
If PD should ever end up in someone else’s control, it would certainly make me sad, but I can do it again with a different name. I don't think the brand is good just because of the name — it’s about ethos and ideas. I don't even think of PD as my own name anymore. When I look at the label inside the clothes, I don't think of myself. It is lot of... See more
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
for an article on namesake brands, constantly changing law firms, namestory
Do we need more show reviews or do we need to know how much the show cost?
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
the famous line in Hemingway ’s The Sun Also Rises , “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.”
Confessions of a Former SVB Executive
The region-beta paradox describes the phenomenon whereby, sometimes, a person may benefit from being worse off versus just mildly off, because being worse off may mobilize them to take action to address the problem, whereas being mildly off can lead them to stagnancy.
Haley Nahman • #161: Unhappy medium
In magazines, there's something known as a deep caption, a wisp of copy that's substituted for a story when the photo is more important.
Unwedded Bliss (Published 2006)
BW: We’ll say “in his private life he is taken. In business, he’s on the dating apps.”
PD: Open marriage.
PD: Open marriage.
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
"The Fed's own data," observes the August 29 edition of "Early Morning with Dave" (David A. Rosenberg, of course), "show that bank-wide credit card delinquency rates have gone from 1.84% a year ago to 2.43% in the first quarter of 2023 and now to 2.77% in the second quarter. This is also before we have even seen the onset of higher unemployment--is... See more
During the 90 years between 1871 and 1960, the S&P 500 annual dividend yield never fell below 3%. In fact, annual dividends reached above 5% during 45 separate years over the period.
The sharp change in S&P 500 dividend yield traces back to the early to mid-1990s. For example, the average dividend yield between 1970 and 1990 was 4.03%. It declined... See more
The sharp change in S&P 500 dividend yield traces back to the early to mid-1990s. For example, the average dividend yield between 1970 and 1990 was 4.03%. It declined... See more