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  • Guest Post: Positive EV

    Guest Post: Positive EV

    Today’s guest post is the second from my good friend and fellow court jester smugdog, who wrote a very-well received guest post last week. Thanks for the post man! If you hang around this community long enough, you’ll realize that you’re part of a group that looks at the world in an odd lens. For…

  • Don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious

    Don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious

    As a result of changes to bank policies and plays dying lately, we’ve seen a lot of folks diving into new ways to continue squeezing those extra drops of juice out of MS transactions.  I’m glad that people are thinking outside the box (and outside the usual suspects) because that skill is only going to…

  • Let it go vs. run it up – a real-world risk example

    Let it go vs. run it up – a real-world risk example

    I talk about a lot of concepts without concrete examples on the blog, not to be obtuse (but it probably comes across that way sometimes, sorry), but because I don’t ever want to be a contributor to the “bloggers killing plays” epidemic.  I’m not trying to be the next Brian Kelly (and I think that…

  • Web design best practices: Churning edition

    Web design best practices: Churning edition

    I’ll probably make myself sound dumb in this post, since a lot of y’all are in more technical fields than I am. But I ran a crappy web design “company” when I was a kid and have sat through enough painful B2B SaaS A/B test meetings to feel at least 10% qualified to talk about…

  • Would you pick up a $50 Starbucks gift card on the street?

    Would you pick up a $50 Starbucks gift card on the street?

    Various members of my family always told me to pick up every penny I saw on the street, regardless of how small the perceived value was. I stuck with that philosophy for a while, especially since as a kid, adding a cent to my net worth was a meaningful increase. I think that ethos is…

  • Monday musings for Saturday sirens

    Monday musings for Saturday sirens

    Over the weekend, some strong evidence appeared suggesting that a longstanding loophole that was a preferred avenue for many of your local whales may be closing. While we don’t really know for certain if this is the end, the writing has been on the wall for awhile that it was on borrowed time.   The play…