Yes, we make decisions about what to do with the money to grow the funds and that’s it.
We started with £1,000
We might write an email or fill a form.
But nothing that looks like a chore.
I’m sure nobody here remembers, but 6 months ago I said I was starting a home biz with my two kids (13, 14) to give them a taste of capitalism and entrepreneurialism.
We have a mini board meeting every Sunday night and the only rule is that our biz is a zero labour biz (we don’t want chores). We probably had 15 meetings so far and the boardroom dynamics are interesting considering everyone has an equal vote. 🤣
We started out with registering a limited company in UK (£12), opening a commercial bank account (£0), and depositing £1,000, bought web domain (£10), bunch of service fees (~£100).
My plan was:
Day 1… £1,000
Year 1 profit… £10,000
Year 2 profit… £50,000
Year 3 profit… £100,000
No dividend / salaries
Well today we shipped our first £10,000 of product and next week we ship another £10,000
But our margin is ~50% so things are looking really positive at the six month mark.
Kids are loving it.
Crucially it was important to start from essentially nothing. That’s the entire life lesson here… From nothing, at any time, just know you can do this.
Blah blah something something about giving a fish or a net, blah blah.
Funny, because attention is about to drop offline en masse.
Distributing great content is irrelevant when great content is generated at home on demand.
2024 might be peak internet.
And I know that sounds absurd, but Netflix is freefalling into obsolescence.
Are you working on this stuff in EU?
For clarity, I’m not in EU. I am in UK.
You make the model open source and thus exempt.
10 year ago I thought Brexit was a calamitous idea. But if I’m honest it really hasn’t been. It’s been a damp squib. Inconsequential. For all the attention and energy it consumed not much happened. The biggest cost was probably opportunity cost of so much political capital debate going to such a none issue.
Saying all that, before the fact it was certainly a big leap into the unknown.
But people had eyes wide open, they expected to be poorer. They expected to lose 8% of GDP.
They voted for it anyway.
Irrational? No, people were simply willing to pay that price for control of their destiny.
But they got lucky, the price was actually much lower.
The Brexit recession simply did not happen.
Lots of establishment types point to every minor thing and claim aha! brexit or aha! Climate change. But it’s undeniable, the emperor has no clothes. Nobody is listening any more.
We left years ago now.
Covid was 30x more disruptive than brexit.
Some stuff is rebalancing still, but UK has a lot of smart people. Is very agile. Can punch well above its weight. Has gained autonomy to do so.
All it takes is Sterling to return to 2008 exchange rates (or even $1.60) and the broadsheets will be squealing… “what do the Brits know?”.
These EU laws are never enforced unless you are US monopoly enjoying defacto anti trust immunity.
How many people are in prison for using cookies? Is it none?
Where? 
Lots of people are losing their shit because the EU has enacted their AI Act.
But obviously nobody has actually read it. They haven’t blocked any AI developments, they have banned governments from building mass surveillance social credit systems based on AI of the type in use in China.
eg in the EU it’s now illegal to walk around public places outting gay children with your smartphone.
Nor can you create / operate facial recognition databases via CCTV.
(I don’t live in the EU btw) 
This is an 87GB torrent.
If you have been toying with local AI this one looks really promising, only dropped a few hours ago and suggests GPT4 performance.
Also going to be wild to see what happens with SSMS next year. We might be able to train on CPU’s by then. Good news for all the unused bare metal in my garage.
Water is free where I live and it’s excellent quality. Crystal clean air and water are one of the trades of living in a cool wet climate.
Most of the cities I visit have nasty undrinkable water, that tastes like it’s been piped 100 miles.
I hone my knives constantly and that alone makes cooking a joy.
Data contradicts this. British emigration is down, and immigration has exploded. 
The fact that Brexit disrupted so much stuff, was kind of a self fulfilling prophecy that we had surrendered too much control.
The more George Osborne warned about the chaos, the more people asked “Why the hell would it affect that? Do they really control that too?”
Epically bad campaign and Cummings on the other side just being ruthless with ‘whatever it takes’ campaigning.
Seen this? Open Source AI is pulling ahead.
Might order a TinyBox for Christmas?
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Current trend is the opposite direction, biggest inward migration of all time in 2023.
Brexit was a chaotic move.
It was certainly expensive, but people voted for it in spite of expecting much bigger costs than anything that has actually materialised.
We actually expected an -8% recession.
People still voted for it anyway.
It was a question of jingoism.
In 2023 the US deficit is 7.5% of GDP.
If you genuinely know what the deficit actually is, this is just an incredible figure.