Happy Nappy Pants Day!

Diaper, Nappy, Pants: A Tiny Global History of a Very Practical Word 🍼🌍 Every civilization has poetry, religion, bread, bureaucracy… and a word for “please contain this mess.” In America, it’s a diaper. In Britain, it’s usually a nappy. In

Startup idea: make fake cheap coffins that ship fast and actually open

Yes, I just emailed you.

For those of geezers watching “avoid phishing scams, seniors!” TV commercials on Fox News…

The More You Ignore Me (Rare) – The Drownout

My friend and I recorded a long time ago, one song. And here it is released.

Overheard: The end of the American era

Scenario, overheard from a friend: “Oops, America starts a war on Iran and loses. Hormuz is locked, the US ‘retreats’ and it’s declared a victory.” But everyone will know that the US can no longer do what it wants. Flashback:

We killed the top leaders…?

Imagine if the other guys had gotten this chart for the US. Is the US defeated? 9/11…

Death to SaaS: clean your iCloud edition

My iCloud was full b/c my iMessage has 20GB of attachments. Pay more? Pay for an app to fix it? Nah, Claude wrote me this script. imessage_cleanup.sh.JPG  (download it, unzip it, rename it to remove the .JPG so it’s just

Cold email? Start here.

If you’re thinking of cold-emailing me or asking to “pick my brain,” start here. I’ve been writing online since 1998. I’ve built companies, invested in others, taught, experimented, and tried to write down what I was learning along the way.

Everything is fine…

Topic Good / Bad (since Jan 2025) Confidence Inflation rate (CPI YoY) 🟢 Slightly lower; gradual downward drift ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Price level (cost of living) 🔴 Higher (prices compound upward) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unemployment rate 🟢 Near multi-decade lows ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Job growth pace

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