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Games people play with cash flow

Games people play with cash flow

Tech twitter drama, antelopes and mice, some cash flow, and some requests for cash

Shobhit Bakliwal
September 30, 2024

Hello hello! What’s up?

This is a letter, a personal letter, from me to you. I hope to send it to you every week. If you find it boring, or want to holler at me, just reply to this.

I am going to share three interesting things I came across the past week, every week.

Let’s get into it.

Summary of tech twitter drama this past week

Twitter tech drama recap:
1) Dudes got into YC and everyone got so jealous to say forking open source is illegal.
2) An indie hacker started a war after not being feature by Product Hunt. I made an acquisition/partner offer to PH. If rejected, I’ll launch my own.
3) DHH said… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— John Rush (@johnrushx)
9:56 AM • Sep 30, 2024

I was traveling in Europe last week, this tweet really helped me get on top of things. Hope it does the same for you. 😄

Are you hunting a deer or mouse?

Are You Hunting Antelope or Field Mice? - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

If you look at your calendar for the last month, or your to-do list for next week, or lack thereof, are you hunting field mice or antelope?

tim.blog/2024/05/02/are-you-hunting-antelope-or-field-mice/

Tim Ferris gives a great analogy on how to work.

If you look at your calendar for the last month or your to-do list for next week, or the lack thereof, are you hunting field mice or antelope?

The games people play with cash flow

The Games People Play With Cash Flow

One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.

commoncog.com/cash-flow-games

Finally got around to reading this monstrous post, thanks to a flight I was on (from Europe).

On the surface, it’s normal stuff, but explained beautifully how your primary task in a business is to manage cash flows, and what are the tools that you can deploy.

The first paragraph links to a non existent post, but I got you, here’s the link that you can open to read it.

I just came back from Europe (did I mention I went to Europe yet?) so I didn’t really post anything online. The vacation really charged me up though, feeling very motivated now, because I just spent two weeks spending money in Euros and Swiss Francs.

So, if you’re looking for a team work on your software, please hit me up, I need to make back money I spent.