Ryder Taff

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

Quote-tweeting this to meek it my pinned tweet.

[welcome to mississippi @uverneous]

I can’t read the word “fiduciary” without thinking of @jrtaff

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@keccers Tennessee Williams (purportedly) said “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” That's a sentiment I've long shared too.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

Being an entrepreneur can be anything you want.

[Steven Balik @laurenbalik]

Many people are complaining about the death of CS as a major.

You can literally just study history, start a blog, charge $20 a month for access, and with just 500 subscribers you're at $20*12*500 = $120k a year. At 1000 subscribers you're at $240k.

You go around and visit Civil War battlefields and follow around the movements of some colonel in the Union Army. Follow him from Chancellorsville to the Second Bull Run to Antietam.

Interview the park rangers. Nobody interviews park rangers. Park rangers are usually very nice and friendly.

You do this as an LLC, which means your phone bill, depreciation on your car, etc. are all business expenses.

The only caveat here is you need to be interesting, or funny, or tell the story in a unique way. You have to give value to your customers.

Get Camping World to give you an RV for you to fart around in and if they sell even 2 incremental RVs they've probably paid back their investment.

You'll get away with six figures and you'll be your own boss.

Year 2

Go trace around the French and Indian War routes. You'll be around Pittsburgh up to New York which are two of the most underappreciated areas of the country.

Nobody knows shit about the French and Indian War. Everybody forgot about it from the two paragraphs they read about it in high school history class.

You will teach your subscribers all about the French and Indian War.

There is high asymmetry in the French and Indian War. Nobody covers it. Everybody kinds of knows what it is, but not really.

Old, retired people will love hearing about the French and Indian War.

Old, retired people have money and time. It is a complete mistake to think that old people don't have time. Yes, they don't have as much "time" in terms of years but they have plenty of time in hours and days, actually more time than almost anyone.

Again, highly asymmetric since nobody knows this. Everybody thinks old people have no time but old people have all the time.

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There you go. There's your plan.

Stop making excuses about why you're depressed about the death of CS.

Go teach old people about the French and Indian War through a subscription blog and videotape yourself learning fun facts from park rangers and walking around historical forts and battlefields.

All you need is about 500 people to pay you $20 a month as a subscription and you're on par with these CS major salaries for junior employees that seem to be disappearing.

If you scale this up to 1500 people you're taking home as much as a Director of Product Management.

Try the French and Indian War blog. Don't knock it until you've tried it.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@youngScipio @ryxcommar @grok The stocks are not for eating, Scipio. There is the Jewish Advocacy 500 $TOV though.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@cmi_dwarf @JBourdain20400 Exactly what I was thinking. Looking at new cars too, even the regulatory costs mentioned in the thread aren't moving the needle like covid demand and production issues.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@ogcaitlinclark At least there won't be any other imposters in your way now.

[Collin McLelland 🏴‍☠️ @FracSlap]

look closely in the world and you can see the history of legends forged in steel

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

The funny thing about "Buffett-style stock analysis in minutes" is that Buffett famously only spends "minutes" doing analysis.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@JamiePastore9 "who are we selling to" "dentists" -boiler room (something like that)

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

$175B stimulus package? Keynes would love this, I am told.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

The US government owes US companies ~$175 BILLION in illegally-collected taxes.

Let's get to work.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@cullenroche @mcspacface Why would people invest in AI if there was nobody on the other end to use it. We could all do art and barter I suppose.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@IvanTheK This makes a lot of sense when you think of this as putting more of the luggage, a complicated part of packing an airplane, in the hands of professionals.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@CPAPlanner It does appear that there is a pretty steep slope right now from $100,000 in income (free) to ~$323,000 (full $91,000). It's like the FAFSA with bigger numbers.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@CPAPlanner As I recall, they are using their endowment for this. They (and Yale, maybe others) all announced this sort of thing years back when there were calls to tax their endowments. They raised student support to increase endowment distributions.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@ShitpostRock I love surveys like this because of course we should compare the alcohol spending habits of high schoolers to adults.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@keccers Not that it needs to be said here, but in the counterexample, I don't think anyone is thinking that the man grew the flowers.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@keccers Cyrano de Bergerac would like a word.

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

I'm not a dietitian so not commenting on that, though this seems like an evolution of the MyPlate guidelines. The graphic is cool, but I am very curious how it ends up getting implemented in school lunches and other federal food programs where sugar still persists.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

BREAKING: The Trump Administration announces the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, putting REAL FOOD back at the center of health. 🇺🇸

https://t.co/tkGF01onpm

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

@nypost ugh, I fell for it again. The story contains the line "his team also warned on their website there would not be portable restrooms 'due to safety concerns' and 'no food for sale within the block party.'" Why didn't NYP ask about that?

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

Listen to the full episode here! https://t.co/pDrrSR0QaA

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

Beneficiaries gathering for the holidays? It's time to think about who you have designated as beneficiary on your accounts. Check out the holiday decorations too @MPBOnline

[Ryder Taff @jrtaff]

Lastly, we put together one sheet (ok, both sides) resource on common beneficiary questions and thoughts. Check it out here, or DM me for a PDF or to snail mail to your low tech benefactor.