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Founder @goodsgrp; ex-Wall Street/construction/EMS; 🇺🇸 living in 🇳🇱; write about life/risk @thejunteau & work/sector @thegoodsletter
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Joined December 2020
$4B Lost in Memecoin Scam. Tokens like MELANIA & LIBRA exploited celebrity names to lure investors into a pump-and-dump scheme. Thousands lost billions. Read the full story.
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Who are the best insurance brokers who can cover small businesses that operate in/across multiple countries?
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I have no interest in going on business-heavy podcasts and talking about trends or the sector. I’m more interested in growing my business, solving problems, and making sure the people I want to know actually know who I am .. and want to work with me or hang with me .. than
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Living in the Netherlands as an American, I sometimes completely forget that English people exist. When I see an English menu or a sign in English, for example, I instinctively wonder whether the Dutch are increasingly annoyed by the growing presence of Americans in their
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One of the biggest paradoxes of American corporate culture... especially on Wall Street... is that you’ll be forced to stop working so you can take a mandatory cyber/phishing training from HR, where they admonish you never to click on anything labeled “urgent,” because urgency is
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Funny section from the recent New Yorker piece about Americans “escaping” the US and moving to the Netherlands.
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@vrexec Tourists in Amsterdam are often shocked by this kind of thing: No or tiny barriers between the cars and the canals. "But they might accidentally drive in!". Yes, so? Pay attention when driving. Cars are not toys!
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We need a Tom Clancy–style novel where the plot twist is that major world leaders are secretly colluding to sign random treaties and kick off inexplicable wars... because they’ve all placed massive bets on Kalshi.
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Living in Europe as an American, I’m forced to think about culture a lot more often... day to day. My business operates mostly in the US (US or Canadian clients), but I live my life here in the Netherlands. I have Dutch and multicultural neighbors, and my kids go to Dutch public
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You have to be very mindful of people’s psychology -- both at the group and individual levels-- when discussing the differences between US culture and European or other individual countries’ cultures. And it's important to be specific about what you're observing while also
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Powerful stuff. Recommended viewing.
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