Like yeah, I had junior finance guys reading me in 2012 but that might’ve just been a 2012 thing when my generation of boys were stretching out into the internet
Back in like 2013 or 2014 when you could still post inline images hosted elsewhere I put one on a post hooked up to an external IP tracker
And a good share of hits were from the Pentagon and like, the Rayburn Building, when I tried to explain that to people they thought I was acting like some sort of Weapon X that the government and military were tracking; but that’s not the fact pattern that represented, it was that Congressional staffers and junior staff officers thought I was worth reading
Back in the dark enlightenment era I got recruited to a few publications (no, but I think one was The Federalist) and even retreat community-planning
Of the latter I remember 3; one was a guy who worked in an assisted-living kitchen and understood operating expenses pretty well but totally whiffed on capital investments and the relationship of location to available revenue streams
One was hedge fund guys with “fuck you money” wanting a nice little-league refuge to raise their kids except I knew they’d fuck me as soon as they could
One was like “I have some land in a day’s range to LA and SF, we can start raising security forces there” and I pointed out that if you have a bunch of open land in range and trained local California-certified security the way to monetize it is as Coachella-style festival grounds and never heard back
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