Local-ish

AJ
In my travels was surprised to see people in the Wa. parks; did some looking and on24 June things updated in terms of use in our state: From Wa. Parks: https://parks.state.wa.us/1181/Parks-opening list of who is open for day use or for camping

* Parks with camping open at half capacity are denoted by *(50% capacity)*. (Hi Governor Jay Inslee)

On the National level: https://www.recreation.gov/

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Where to go to sell things and pair down during a pandemic
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* The “Friends and Family Discount in the Covid Era”
* Amazon: the megalith
* Ebay: Well known for good or for bad
* Offer-Up; a mixed response
* Facebook Marketplace- yup
* Mercari - If Facebook MP and OfferUp had a love child
* Craigslist - “porch pickup“ as a verb yo!
* Poshmark
* Swappa.com (http://swappa.com/)
* Depop.com (http://depop.com/) - clothing consignment
* Photog
* MPB
* Adorama
* B&H
* KEH
* REverb.com (http://reverb.com/) for music folks

Opportunity Cost of Selling

* Time spent taking photos, listing item online, responding to inquiries
* Packing the item
* Standing in line to ship or drive to meet buyer
* Online fees

Alternative to selling

* Observe who might find joy with your item
* Give it to them or offer a friends & family discount
* Pay it forward

Another mindset

Money comes and goes, money will be acquired as time goes on, money will be used to purchase specific items

New and while we were away in the PNW WFH

*Chris*

Turning down the volume on the news echo chamber
Turning up the inner thoughts in my mind

*AJ*

* Back from Mental Northing it NOT around people.
* Mount Kit Carson (5286ft) fun fact second hiest peak next to Mount Spokane
* Day Mountain (on the Saddle of Kit Carson)
* Mount Erie 1900ish ft (Anacortes- fun fact highest point of Fidalgo)
* Bowl and Pitcher (Spokane River)

Bellingham Bingo

Picking a local restaurant to showcase to hopefully keep them in all your minds when you order takeout next.

*AJ: *

Jalepeños Restaurant (https://www.jalapenos-wa.com/) - Two locations in Bellingham for your Mexican food needs. Barkley location in this case.

*Chris: *

Filling Station (https://fillingstationnw.com/) - Two locations in Bellingham for your burger needs

*Food for Thought:* When ordering food online, why are you giving the online food website, not the restaurant, your personal email address, your personal phone number..... and your personal name?

MySudo (https://mysudo.com/)
Google Voice (https://www.google.com/voice)

New Things?

*Chris:*

#DoSomething - Used $65 Google Pixel phone from 2016, learned how to install LineageOS (https://lineageos.org/) on it, F-Droid App Store and De-Google your life. Travel phone option. Protest phone. Burner phone. Learning opportunity phone.

*AJ: *

Quality Assurance

Video:

AJ: James Hoffmann : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ
“Hi! My name is James, and I mostly make videos about anything and everything to do with coffee, occasionally food and sometimes business/entrepreneurship. (But it really is mostly coffee)”

Podcast:

Deep Questions with Cal Newport (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-questions-with-cal-newport/id1515786216)
A Bit of Optimism with Simon Sinek (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-bit-of-optimism/id1515385282)
Essentialism with Greg McKeown (https://gregmckeown.com/podcast/)


Book:

*Chris - The Jason Fried Trilogy:*
Rework (https://basecamp.com/books/rework)
Remote (https://basecamp.com/books/remote) - Completely relevant in the COVID Era
It Doesn’t have to be Crazy at Work (https://basecamp.com/books/calm)


*AJ*