Twitch Bans Online Gambling In edition #92 of this newsletter I talked about the very large problem of online gambling content on streaming service Twitch (owned by Amazon). Well, this week Twitch made the decision to ban unlicensed online gambling content. Why now? It seems popular streamer Sliker (who did not create content ...

From Last Newsletter In the last issue of The Random, I talked about the "Be Curious, Not Judgmental" signage around Erie, PA. Well, a big thanks goes to my friend John Chacona who advised me that those properties are owned by Rick Griffith Commercial Real Estate Properties. Thank you John for the tip and ...

Moving from Mailchimp Not sure exactly when, but this newsletter will be moving from Mailchimp to a new email provider in the next few months. Why you ask? It seems Mailchimp (owned by financial-services provider Intuit) has a problem with cryptocurrency. A few weeks ago, Mailchimp suspended a group of crypto ...

The IRS Can't Keep Up It looks like the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is short on workers just like Qantas Airlines (Quantas is so short on baggage handlers that they’ve asked their executive team [gasp] to carry bags for three months). The TL;DR In February I helped a friend of ...

What I’m Reading… I’m on a reading roll now. Thanks in large part to this community, I’ve read three amazing books in a row. First it was Where the Crawdads Sing. My wife and I were ready to go see this at the movies, but we couldn’t get beyond the 34 ...

It’s Cheap in Europe I remember traveling with the family to London in 2016. It was right after we officially sold Content Marketing Institute. We left on Father’s Day that year, which was the exact same day as Game 7 of the NBA Finals (Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors). ...