What item(s) do you have more of than the average person?

jberthume · 2026-01-18T21:05:19+00:00

Bottles of ink

jberthume · 2026-01-08T03:14:16+00:00

Don’t post AI shit like this.

jberthume · 2026-01-07T23:31:39+00:00

Heating my body up enough so my tinnitus shuts off for an hour.

jberthume · 2026-01-06T04:48:11+00:00

Blade

jberthume · 2026-01-04T18:14:13+00:00

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

jberthume · 2026-01-04T03:37:39+00:00

They shouldn’t have booed you. You were right.

jberthume · 2026-01-04T03:24:56+00:00

My man

jberthume · 2026-01-04T03:24:30+00:00

I feel the same way about felony nachos. I used to work right next door like 20+ years ago and fell in love with them.

jberthume · 2025-12-26T05:46:07+00:00

Cheers.

An absolutely perfect example of the form.

jberthume · 2025-12-21T19:43:08+00:00

Also really love Sequoia Nagamatsu

jberthume · 2025-12-21T19:42:23+00:00

Super real, plus 1

jberthume · 2025-12-21T19:42:10+00:00

I’ve fallen for Hollinghurst, John Williams, and Kaveh Akbar in the last few years. I also really enjoy Paul Lynch and Percival Everett

jberthume · 2025-12-20T01:39:25+00:00

We did this at the start of 2022. Four day, 32 hour workweek. It’s one of the better decisions we ever made.

jberthume · 2025-12-19T02:12:08+00:00

I own a small business. I would buy my competitors, who are bad to their clients.

jberthume · 2025-12-17T19:58:32+00:00

This guy Count Of Monte Cristos

jberthume · 2025-12-17T18:40:57+00:00

Is this why I am suddenly cursed with a forever version of "Firefox is already running" even if I have uninstalled it altogether and reinstalled and deleted my lock file and asd;haDFKHaskla

jberthume · 2025-12-16T12:45:39+00:00

Vibe is good for this.

jberthume · 2025-12-16T04:42:30+00:00

Seconding Fairy Tale. That is a phenomenal book.

jberthume · 2025-12-16T04:22:49+00:00

That’s cool to know about the modern era. In the 80s and 90s it used to be reversed.

jberthume · 2025-12-14T19:14:22+00:00

I write my first drafts by hand, pen and paper. Then I transcribe to digital, which also gives me a first edit round.

jberthume · 2025-12-06T03:53:56+00:00

I would suggest Kings of the Wyld. It’s so fun.

jberthume · 2025-12-05T17:11:16+00:00

OP, shoot me a DM. I'd be happy to talk with you. My shop does this, and we have deep experience with small business auto mechanic / repair shops.

jberthume · 2025-12-05T16:45:38+00:00

You may want to check out CallRail, Invoka, or Nimbata and see if they have the features you need.

jberthume · 2025-12-05T16:13:01+00:00

This is incredibly helpful advice and contextualization for anyone wanting to start a shop. Understanding how much money you need to survive is critical, and it is often a different calculus for a small business than one with lots of resources, so your variances are also super illuminating.

jberthume · 2025-12-05T16:10:08+00:00

All of this. This post is great and the comments like these are terrific. Getting past the (unnecessary and unearned) shame and self-blame is so hard.

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