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A fun email for Friday. I hope you enjoy!

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Edition: Friday, August 4th, 2023

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HA! Saw this sign while walking down the street:

As a purveyor of funny sidewalk signs, I realized I've seen this similar sign before. Googled it and found MANY versions of it!

The title "Husband Daycare Center" is enough of a pattern interrupt for people to stop and read the sign.

If it works, it works!

Wisdom:

Basically everything that’s heavily government regulated has gone up in price, and everything competing in the free market gets cheaper:

The free market works.

Some regulation for safety is good, but out of control regulation makes things worse.

Interesting:

This graphic taught me a lot….I didn’t realize what young men the Founding Fathers of the United States were. Kind of mind blowing!

Picture:

I added a TV to my home garage gym setup a few months ago and it's been amazing!

Sometimes I just hang out there and stretch while watching cool YouTube videos or MasterClass.

Also Peloton just added native NetFlix support, which has been super cool for getting movement in while otherwise vegging out:

A lot of my friends like using their Peloton like this, but the only way to do it before was using an iPad holder like this:

...how it's a shame to waste that gig giant screen behind it 😬

Glad they added support for watching TV while biking, makes a lot of sense.

Essay:

Inflation is a hard concept to explain….but this simple picture really “shows” it perfectly!

It’s easy to see how much the buying power of the dollar has decreased in ~100 years by seeing the giant stack of money -vs- a few bucks in 1933.

Here's a standard graph showing it :

And here's another way to visualize it by showing how much $20 used to be just a few years back....this one isn't super accurate, but it conveys the concept of "inflation" as well:

Splurge:

Maria Popova runs a huge blog called The Marginalian (3m+ visitors/mo) and it's interestingly supported through donations only.

She doesn't give extra content for the donations, it's just done out of the goodness of readers hearts.

This is the simple pitch for donations at the bottom of each article that keep the entire site alive:

A podcast I like called 99% Invisible prided themselves on only taking donations, and eventually caved to taking sponsors. I've seen it happen over and over again with donation-based orgs.

Have you ever seen a site based on donations?

I hope you enjoyed these Friday tid-bits!
Sincerely,
Neville Medhora