Finance
Ideas and information related to the finance industry and personal finance.
13 posts
- 9/16/26Business
Why 2008 Was the Perfect Year to Launch KmikeyM
I don’t remember where I was on September 15, 2008. My notebook skips the whole month. But I can tell you exactly what my shareholders voted on that September, because we did it in public and it is…
- 5/7/26CTRL ALTZ
Vote: $5K in Dead Internet Theory
Should the KmikeyM shareholder fund be deployed into someone else’s project? The proposal: $5K as first money in on Paizley Lee’s Dead Internet Theory, a series of in-person retro cyber-café-like…
- 7/12/25Finance
Trapped in UnSAFE Conditions
When I learned that Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad, volunteered with DOGE to help gut services at the VA, I faced an ethical crisis. Trapped in a SAFE with no exit, I offered to surrender my…
- 9/13/24CTRL ALTZ
Speculative Investments
Now that the Shareholder Poker Tournament is only once a month I’ve found I need a little more “speculative investing” in my life. Initially I tried playing some scratch-its but that’s a pretty cheap…
- 12/10/23Finance
Mike Bucks
A friend wanted to encourage betting on the dice game threes during their birthday party. Knowing that betting on dice is more exciting and attractive when playing with physical currency I thought I’d…
- 8/8/21Finance
July Challenge: Track Spending
The July Challenge was Record and Share Every Purchase which won at 33% support over “read five books” (21%) and “Go to a different LA Neighborhood every day” (15%)… so I made a spreadsheet. Then…
- 12/12/20Finance
Disclosures
A list of my investments as of December 11th, 2020. I sell shares of myself as part of an experiment in personal capitalism. You can read more about that here. I use various hardware and software…
- 4/3/20Finance
Purchase Log During Stay-At-Home Order
🧅40 lb of vidalia onions $99.95 🎁AirPods Pro for Kathryn (gift) $253.28 🚴♂️Bike repair + new tire at Cocos Variety $54.67 ☕Carnelian Coffee $41.00 🍕Take out pizza from Hail Mary $55.00…
- 3/13/20CTRL ALTZ
CTRL ALTZ: The Tannery
Alternative assets are investments that aren’t stock, bonds, or certificates. Those are known as traditional assets, leaving everything else the “alternative:” antiques precious metals stamps coins…
- 9/9/19Finance
Financial Civil Disobedience
PART 1: Onion Futures I bought The Futures by Emily Lambert because I wanted to know more about the Onion Futures Act, a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as…
- 8/16/16Finance
If We Save Pizza, We Save America
America loves pizza. If we assume that pizza follows a traditional “Pyramid of Quality” ratio, which posits that there is always more bad than good, then the world of pizza can be split into five…
- 6/7/16Finance
How Much Control Do You Need?
Disclaimer: I love the concept of shareholder control so much I married it. Well, not really… But I did enact a system modeled on a market economy to give control of my romantic life to other people.…
- 5/14/14Finance
Re-Thinking the Game of Monopoly
It would be hard to simplify capitalism further than Monopoly. The game attempts to express the ruthlessness of raw capitalism by declaring that whoever has the most money at the “end” is the winner.…
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