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14 Dec

https://twitter.com/stripejapan/status/1470619562131423233

We expanded Stripe Tax coverage to Japan, helping Japanese businesses deal with the bewildering complexity of jurisdictions in the U.S. and 34 other countries (plus domestic consumption tax, naturally).

https://twitter.com/stripejapan/status/1470619562131423233

This sort of thing makes the world feel a little bit smaller, one step at a time.

As an entrepreneur in Japan, I was always happy that consumption tax was very predictable and that forms for submitting it were not complicated. This is not the case if you do business abroad, too.

This helps businesses feel like selling internationally is a natural linear extension of their domestic business, rather than a confusing tangle of rules suggesting maybe one should just not bother.

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Patrick McKenzie

@patio11

12 Dec

The family went out to yakiniku for Sunday dinner and the (new) restaurant’s HVAC system had lights built on it to illuminate the grills.

I asked why. For the ‘gram, of course.

Wild how much impact tech has on the experience of the world.

Who knew that one important job to be done of restaurant dining is for the food to look good *seen through the lens of a camera* because you care about your social experience of it *with people not at the table.*

(This isn’t a criticism. That feels like a legitimate thing to want, as much as anything status-oriented is a legitimate thing to want, even if it is not a traditional thing to want. And of course legitimate to provide, like e.g. charcoal grilled beef cuts.)

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Patrick McKenzie

@patio11

11 Dec

It’s a little bit wild how often I tweet X only to get Slacked “Oh you’re clearly interested in work-relevant Y. I didn’t know that. Good thing I follow you on Twitter.”

This seems like a missing feature in Slack / missing affordance for some sort of passive presence at work.

Think of how many more happy interactions would happen if this thing were possible within the firewall, as it were, because clearly I filter >90% of work-relevant things before musing publicly about them.

Would also solve for some social dynamics that sometimes pop up where one might not want to push notifications of e.g. work stream progress at a large group of people but would like to make it easy for them to follow it if they wanted.

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Patrick McKenzie

@patio11

9 Dec

In markets in everything news, apparently the culture that is Japanese golf somewhat encourages you to throw a party for all your friends at the golf club if you score a hole in one or albatross.

It's a big deal. Branded goods, lots of alcohol, etc. Costs about $10k.

You could of course simply not throw a party at the golf club which costs $10k, but what kind of salaryman hits a hole in one but doesn't take their buddies out for a round of celebratory drinking? A bad salaryman.

So you can buy a rider to your golf insurance which covers this.

"A what?"

So you will probably at some point get told "You should really buy an insurance, which might not explicitly be branded as golf insurance, to cover the case where e.g. you hit your golf ball out of bounds and it shatters a window or injures a bypasser."

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Patrick McKenzie

@patio11

9 Dec

I find this interesting on multiple levels:

draculatheme.com

1) It's a really good cross-program color scheme.
2) It's a commercial product.
3) It's effectively ungated; what's being sold is the OSS plus warm fuzzies.
4) Total sales ~$200k (based on their public info).

And look how professional everything is! They actually either are a commercially proficient designer or hired one to do icons (for their site, not their product, because color schemes don't need in-product icons).

And they have a sensible brand, etc, with the name, scheme, etc.

That's a pretty cool model for OSS! "I'm going to promote myself and/or my small team into being the czar with respect to one problem. We're going to solve it across the ecosystem in N months. And we'll turn on payments. Let's see if worth our while."

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Patrick McKenzie

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7 Dec

From a conversation with a friend:

Tech should build more cathedrals, less in the religious sense and more in the "Make a beautiful, physical space which is open to the public and will endure for hundreds of years to say This Is Who We Were And What We Hoped, 2021 Edition."

Will allow partial credit for "Our cathedral is The Internet" but I don't think that necessarily drains resources from doing it IRL, too.

If people are very wigged out by the word "cathedral" specifically I sort of feel that that's unfortunate but can I downsell you to "There should be a museum, not specific to any one company, with at least as much brainpower put into it as an N+1 reskinning of Gmail."

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