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đź“ś Substacks I'd bankroll like a Renaissance cardinal with a printing press if I were rich:
A policy programme for beautifying cities: trees, fountains, eccentrism, mosaics, art, and more
Side by side comparisons of the administrative, financial and regulatory hurdles to creating businesses... See more
Every “right” you enjoy is someone else’s responsibility. In other words, there are no free lunches. https://t.co/YqP70LupO1
Imagine you made $200 million in crapto, bought your toys, and invested in fixed return that feeds your kin forever. $80 million is left over, you invest for 5% return = $2.5 million yearly after taxes.
Consider the impact that the online RW has today, not only on popular tastes, but in elite circles. Politicians... See more
Space Age Maximalistx.comGiven these realities, I find the furthest extreme of the free and open source philosophy not only unethical in its own right in that it incentivizes wide-scale consumption over production and thus impoverishes the software world, but divorced from reality in that it misunderstands the economic forces responsible for the production of software (and... See more
Ryan Fleury • Software Kingdoms
Here was the New Right platform in concrete terms: a normative, regulatory state endorsing individual freedom only insofar as behavior remained within the strictures of traditionally accepted moral behavior. Rational Economic Man was entitled to pursue his whims in the market, but not in the bedroom.
Whitney Strub • Perversion for Profit
“Breaking Points” is currently supported by around ten thousand paying subscribers spread over the various payment tiers. This is a factor of ten more than in the 1,000 True Fans model proposed by Kelly, but it remains a good case study of his model in action: a strong but modest-sized community, discovered and served by using the Internet,... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
if you take a free gig, send your tech rider and compromise on less.