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Money troubles
Hey everyone! So it has eventuated that there’s a chance I will need to move states in a few months. It’s not settled for sure yet, but the chances are substantial enough that I need to start working out potential logistics. In itself this isn’t terribly interesting to any of you, but it does create a logistical problem for me. See, at the moment, I store the stock in my garage – I don’t do enough business to pay for a storage unit big enough (boards are seriously bulky), and I don’t really need the space anyway. However, if I’m moving, I can’t guarantee I’ll have access to a garage…
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Privacy Concerns Continued
So you may have seen the last post I made, where I talked about my concerns about what some have called “privacy capitalism” or “surveillance capitalism“, in which our personal data is viewed as valuable by a range of entities, most of whom do not have our best interests at heart. And as happens in an economy, if something is valuable, people figure out ways to get it, usually as cheaply as possible. While this is perfectly normal, even desirable, when we’re talking about wheat or entertainment or medicine, when it come to personal data, there’s another element – the desires for the data inherently conflict with desires of us…
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Privacy Concerns
Reviewing how we do privacy - suggestions invited!
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Spreading the Love Update
Hey all! A while back I talked about wanting to spread my good fortune from having this business, while balancing my need to, you know, eat and such. Complicating factors are my obvious desire for some privacy especially online (post about that coming soon), but also wanting to be transparent and accountable – we’ve all seen companies claim to want to help, but shroud the process in such obscurity that who knows. So, while accepting that this is an imperfect system, this is how I’m going to move forward with this. While this policy might change in the future, this is how I see it going for now. Basically, I’m…
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Spreading the Love
TL;DR: I’d like to donate a portion of the gross income of PacifiGo to organisations that will do good in the world. Details still to be worked out. Asking for thoughts. So, as it says on the “My Story” part of the page, a large part of the reason I started PacifiGo in the first place is because I honestly, sincerely believe that the sheer cost of buying go sets that aren’t awful puts a lot of people, who would have otherwise really enjoyed the game, off getting more into it. Maybe they can’t afford it, maybe they figure dropping $400 on a set for a game that they like…