Justin Duke

@jmduke.com

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The Buttondown guy

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“Later writers have guessed that Volckamer was ignorant of the effects of frost. My own belief is that science erases what was previously true. The earth was the center of the universe until Copernicus rearranged it. Life did begin in Eden before Darwin restyled it. In the early eighteenth century in Nuremberg, a woman did sit in the branches of an orange tree and kill it to the ground.” Excerpt From Oranges John McPhee
1. yup, absolutely reasonable to be concerned about that. that’s what I was (lossily) referring to with regards to offboarding policy as well: my discussions with Stripe folks and the current experience of our users in similar shoes as yours is that such use cases are completely kosher, but if that ever changes it will demand change on our end as well, and the only real prevention is redundancy. 2. re: direct deposit — i think owning that much surface area ourselves is not going to be feasible for a long time, but we do have folks jerry-rig up paid subscriptions solutions by managing DD themselves and then using tags and automations to get everything working. we will add a tutorial on this!
In 2015, Lyft would charge me $7 for a ride from West Seattle to Belltown; Uber would charge me $5. It was not clear to me if this was because Uber had better magic or because they were more aggressively loss-leading. I certainly did not (nor did anyone I know) have "loyalty" to one or the other — we simply opened both apps and chose the cheaper quote. In 2025, both companies would charge me $30 — a price that is less beggaring of disbelief, and also a price that wouldn’t cause me to say “okay, time to call a cab company” but would cause me to look up how delayed the C Line has been lately 2. It’s unambiguous that the ridehailing wave resulted in an objectively better user experience for getting a cab; it’s also very clear that a lot of the temporary shift towards these services was more about taking advantage of very generous a16z subsidy and less about enduring behavioral change. 3 I use these tools every day; I find myself starting to shift from a “the marginal costs round down to zero!” mindset to scrutinizing the bill of a random Claude Code session as if I ordered a burger and a beer at an airport bar and the bottom of the check reads $80. (“$12 to fix two linting errors in the OpenAPI spec? Really?”)