#capitalism
41 posts
- 9/21/26Crypto
Skeptical Observer
In January someone made a cryptocurrency based on my life without asking me. I woke up to a DM from BigCrazyApe, “Yo Mike, there’s a KmikeyM coin on Bags. You might want to claim your earnings.” I…
- 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…
- 2/13/26Business
KmikeyM Names Austin as Custodian of the Degen Account
Austin has been appointed as custodian of the KmikeyM degen account. He will be managing the account’s shares and cash, trading to provide liquidity and make profits. This initiative integrates two…
- 1/25/26Crypto
Welcoming The Degens
Something Weird Happened A few weeks ago, someone created a token called $KMIKEYM on bags.fm. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t authorize it. I had nothing to do with it. It felt like a scam. People…
- 11/10/25Business
90 Days in “Heads Down Mode”
I’ve been focused on the startup work at Vibes DIY, learning more about AI-assisted coding and doing a lot of video production. It’s been 90 days and I’m starting to come out of “heads down mode.”
- 7/28/25Business
Blippo+
Blippo+ has launched on Playdate. It’s a surreal streaming service from Planet Blip, part sci-fi TV experiment, and part video game. Created by YACHT with a dream team of collaborators (including me…
- 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…
- 8/8/24Business
The 3 Miracles
Kathryn and I have been working on the if/come project and one of the things Kathryn said that deserves it’s own post is the three miracles in Hollywood: Miracle 1: 💰 You get paid. And beyond just…
- 2/24/22Business
Announcing EGG
We’re about three episodes into my new podcast Experimental Garden Group, or “EGG.” Co-hosted by my former business partner, current shareholder, and longtime collaborator Marcus Estes, we’ve also…
- 7/7/21Business
Let’s Talk About Snacks
In 2016 I acquired a 51% stake in Snacker.News, a news feed style site about snacks and food. The other 49% is owned by the Snacker.News CTO Josh Yaganeh. Since the acquisition we’ve experimented with…
- 4/11/21Book Club
Reimagining Capitalism – I Hate This Book
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Reimagining Capitalism, by Rebecca Henderson. Join the K5M Book Club These are my notes on Chapter 2 but we decided to quit reading this book…
- 4/5/21Book Club
Reimagining Capitalism – Chapter 1
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Reimagining Capitalism, by Rebecca Henderson. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 1: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?”…
- 4/1/21Book Club
Reimagining Capitalism – Book Club Plan
My copy of Reimagining Capitalism arrived and I read the first chapter today. To stay on track and read the book in one month we only need to read about 10 pages a day. Looking at when the chapters…
- 3/27/21Book Club
Money – Book Club Notes
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club The Shareholder Book Club met on Saturday afternoon to discuss Money: The True Story of a Made up…
- 3/22/21Book Club
Money – Conclusion
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club the conclusion of Money, The True Story of a Made-Up Thing “Money is a choice, or a set of…
- 3/20/21Book Club
Money – Chapter 15
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club The Radical Dream of Digital Cash Jacob Goldstein starts with an important reminder: “Cash is a…
- 3/6/21Book Club
Money – Chapter 14
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club A Brief History of the Euro (and Why the Dollar Works Better) I thought this chapter was going to…
- 3/3/21Book Club
Money – Chapter 13
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club How Two Guys in a Room Invented a New Kind of Money This chapter seems like it could be a whole…
- 1/16/21Votes
Become a member of the LA Chapter of the Democratic Socialists
I am very serious about selling shares in myself. You could even say I’m deadly serious. But the impulse of KmikeyM has always been to experiment and play with capitalism. The slogan I’ve used for…
- 11/23/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 12
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 12: Money is Dead. Long Live Money It’s interesting how banks would close their physical…
- 11/18/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 11
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 11: Just Don’t Call It a Central Bank The name Nicholas Biddle seemed familiar to me……
- 11/16/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 10
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 10: The Gold Standard: A Love Story Before we even get started, just based on the title,…
- 11/16/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 9
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 9: But Really: Can Everybody Can Have More Money? The answer to that questions seems like…
- 11/3/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 8
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 8: Everybody Can Have More Money The concept of measuring economic progress from the…
- 10/21/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 7
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 7: The Invention of Millionaires Man, we jump into this chapter with some of the violent…
- 10/19/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 6
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 6: John Law Gets to Print Money Amsterdam’s problem was too many coins. This is very…
- 10/4/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 5
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 5: Finance as Time Travel: Inventing the Stock Market FINALLY WE’RE GETTING INTO THE GOOD…
- 10/4/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 4
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 4: How to Get Rich with Probability Oh, we’re going to get into math!!?? I’m ready, I’ve…
- 9/24/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 3
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Join the K5M Book Club Part II: The Murderer, The Boy King, and Invention of Capitalism No offense to my former business…
- 9/24/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 2
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein.Join the K5M Book Club Chapter 2 – When We Invented Paper Money, Had an Economic Revolution, Then Tried to Forget the…
- 9/24/20Book Club
Money – Chapter 1
These are my notes for the K5M Book Club on the book Money, by Jacob Goldstein. Author’s Note Jacob’s aunt Janet seems rad. A poet with an MBA feels like an intellectually dangerous person in the most…
- 7/23/20Crypto
CTRL ALTZ: SD26 Professional Athlete Token
Surprising news coming from the NBA: Professional basketball player Spencer Dinwiddie has had a disappointing response to his offering of tokenized shares in his $34 million contract with the National…
- 7/17/20CTRL ALTZ
CTRL ALTZ: Are.na
In March of 2018 I invested $100 into Are.na via their investment campaign on Republic via a Crowd SAFE (Crowdfunding Simple Agreement for Future Equity). The actual investment in WHEN IT CHANGED,…
- 7/4/20Crypto
The World’s Second Publicly Traded Person
I’ve been a publicly traded person since 2008, and I’ve always called myself the “first” because I hoped more would come after. Today, 12 years later, the prophecy has been fulfilled! Alex Masmej has…
- 7/4/20Crypto
CTRL ALTZ: $ALEX
After I met Alex and had a chat with him I decided to buy some $ALEX tokens for two reasons. I want participate in the world’s secondly publicly traded person! I want to understand first hand how…
- 5/25/20CTRL ALTZ
CTRL ALTZ: Magic Cards
When shareholder Kyle Barry told me he was presenting at the 2020 Shareholder Conference on investing in Magic cards I asked if he had any for sale. He sold me a Taiga, which is now part of my…
- 5/10/20CTRL ALTZ
CTRL ALTZ: HumanIPO
On May 7th 2020 I joined a handful of others selling my time on the HumanIPO marketplace. HumanIPO let’s you invest in the time of other people, holding it as it rises or falls in value, redeeming it…
- 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…
- 4/28/19Business
Our Incredible Journey
There’s a wise old saying that “All good things must come to an end.” So it’s with a potent mixture of emotions — gratitude, sadness, regret, highs, lows, some middles, joy, grief, incandescent rage,…
- 8/1/15Crypto
My Attempted Ether Binge
“There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.” Hunter S. Thompson In 2015 I was excited about crypto and I wanted some ether,…
- 5/26/11Business
MKRM
October 12th, 2011 MKRM will be celebrating their next major transition this Friday (October 14th) at 7:30 as we clean out the infamous “Whiskey Shelf” in order to vacate the Brass Works Building. All…
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