I like these tales, so I am setting them free

Hi there and welcome! I’m Michael Estrin. I write Scenario Regular for individuals who take their humor with a facet of humanity and a splash of perception. (Make sure you learn to the tip for an image of Mortimer, the toughest working canine within the e-newsletter sport🐶)

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OK, that’s numerous 💰💰💰—sufficient to set some Scenario Regular tales free, which is precisely what I’m about to do.

Firstly of 2023, I turned on funds for Scenario Regular. My plan was to make trillions of {dollars}, then go sit on a seaside someplace and earn 20 p.c. Really, that was Hans Gruber’s plan, and it didn’t work out too nicely for Hans, did it?

Seems my plan to get wealthy by writing humorous, private tales and emailing them to strangers wasn’t what the enterprise individuals name “good.” I believe that’s as a result of there are many higher methods to earn money than writing comedy. Listed here are just a few can’t-miss money-making ventures I obtained from a Enterprise Insider article that was written by a low-paid human who used the free model of ChatGPT:

1. Petty larceny

2. Smelting

3. Grand larceny

4. A lemonade stand

5. Homicide for rent

6. Promoting photo voltaic

7. Writing ransom notes

8. Creating an AI that writes ransom notes between photo voltaic gross sales gigs

9. Stealing catalytic converters

10. Betting on Jai alai

11. Insurance coverage fraud

12. Being a Kardashian

13. Successful Wheel of Fortune

14. OnlyFans

15. Submitting frivolous lawsuits

16. Mismanaging a sovereign wealth fund

17. Plastics

This isn’t a whole listing, however it doesn’t matter. I’m not in it for the cash. I write Scenario Regular as a result of it’s enjoyable for me and also you.

Which brings to a confession: I left 98% of you out of the enjoyable on 4 Scenario Regular tales.

Sorry.

I did this on goal.

Once more, sorry.

It was an experiment, I swear. I wished to see if a paywall would give Scenario Regular what the enterprise individuals name “paying clients.”

Seems, these 4 tales did lead to a couple paying clients. However I hated utilizing the paywall. Additionally, most individuals who pay for Scenario Regular do it as a result of they love this text and so they need to help it. In different phrases, I’ve patrons, not clients.

Going ahead, Scenario Regular will likely be 100% free, with two exceptions:

• After six months, all tales robotically go behind a paywall. I’m doing this to make it more durable on trolls. I additionally need to more durable on AI corporations that need to practice their fashions on my work—though I’m undecided paywalling the archives is far of a protection in opposition to SkyNet. Lastly, I’m locking the archives to make it simpler for me to gather the tales and switch them into books in some unspecified time in the future. If there’s a narrative within the Scenario Regular archives that you simply need to learn, simply ask and I’ll provide you with a set of keys, until you’re a troll, or an AI, or an AI troll (god assist us).

• The final story of the 12 months. That story will likely be a Stakeholder Report, which suggests I’ll clarify the enterprise facet of Scenario Regular. There would possibly even be charts!

Glad you requested! I like them, and because the saying goes, for those who love one thing, set it free. You’ll discover these 4 tales under. They’re all nice, however the one about my dad, Bob Hope, and the Sultan of Oman could be very near my coronary heart.

Please get pleasure from these tales:

There will likely be two extra Scenario Regular tales this 12 months.

Subsequent week, I’ll publish a submit celebrating this 12 months’s wins. I do that yearly. It’s loads enjoyable, so I hope you’ll be a part of me for that one.

On the final Sunday of the 12 months, which additionally occurs to be the final day of 2023, I’ll publish the First Annual Scenario Regular Stakeholder Report. If you wish to know extra concerning the enterprise of this humorous enterprise, you’ll should subscribe.

You realize the drill. I’ve obtained questions, you’ve obtained solutions.

1. Do you have got any good enterprise concepts? Share!

2. Is Diehard a Christmas film? Convey your chilly takes!

3. What would’ve occurred if Odysseus had eaten an edible and flown Southwest?

4. You thought CCR was singing a few toilet too, proper?

5. Why is the Lyft driver nonetheless single?

6. Who had a greater humorousness: Bob Hope or the Sultan of Oman?

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Sure, please do! I like listening to from Scenario Regular readers. Ask me (virtually) something, and I’ll reply your query in a future problem of Scenario Regular.

The book variations of my books are priced between 99 cents and $2.99, so for those who don’t have the funds for a Scenario Regular subscription, shopping for an book is a good way to help my work. Bonus: you’ll giggle your butt off!