bureaucracy, looters, and solopreneurs

Thursday, June 25, 2026

I loved a nymph who turned into a reed before I could speak.

1. €9,600, 152 days, and still can’t send an invoice in Germany
2. How one Englishman looted Cambodia’s gods for Western collectors
3. Stripe data: solo founders are growing faster than employer businesses
4. ProPublica: carbon capture is physically impossible at the required scale
5. Yann LeCun at the UN: open-source AI is a sovereignty issue, not a preference
6. 30 years of Jay-Z: what happens when the hustler becomes the system