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I’ve been on this self-publishing journey for a while. But now it’s getting real. I’m starting to think about an actual publishing date, probably right around the beginning of [...]

… that I mostly agree with. From Balaji Srinivasan (1) First, the new bottleneck on AI is prompting and verifying. Since AI does tasks middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. So business spend [...]

Kind of like a traveler’s check? Where the bearer signs on receipt? And I wonder, did the bank president and the chief cashier sign every note? Or were they printed on? This note looks a [...]

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which prohibits financial institutions from discriminating based on sex, age and marital status, among other things. The act [...]

From 2016, which seems like another world now, but a lot of this rings true for someone considering self publishing. If you self-publish your book, you are not going to be writing for a living. [...]

Rising rent is one of the biggest reasons that bookstores lose their leases. I feel very conflicted about this. On the one hand, I love books and bookstores, and I hate the idea that as business [...]

A lot of people have been asking what the heck happened in China this last couple of weeks, and whether it’s a problem for us. Let’s answer the second question first: no. The sharp correction in [...]

You’re probably a bit confused about what’s going down in Greece. I can’t blame you: it’s a bit of a mind-bender. The government there has announced a referendum on July [...]

Household net worth is rising, and that’s great news, right? Yes, but. Data on the economy this week has been overwhelmingly positive. Retail sales were up in May, which means people are shopping [...]