jamesofthedrum

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  1. Found this one interesting. A rare papyrus was discovered in Masada, Israel. It’s the paycheck of a Roman legionary soldier dated to 72 CE, during the period of the Great Revolt of the Jews against the Romans. This is…

  2. With big companies pumping a ton of money into snatching up keywords, can a small player really hope to make any gains? And is playing the long-game of SEO really worthwhile for an early-stage company or is it best to…

  3. I have an archaeological/anthropological newsletter that has nearly 1200 subs with a ~50% open rate, and I just monetized it over the weekend. I got a couple of upgrades to the paid tier right away (including some…

  4. So excited! I'm having a ton of fun with it and growing organically (mostly reddit). Woohoo! Next stop, monetization. I think I'll make the current format paid, and offer a truncated version to free subs. Pricing this…

  5. From a pretty intense interview I did with Andres Aguerrevere of Wegacha. At the time, his company was making $30k/mo. "Someone tried to kidnap me for a ransom about ten years ago. The police stopped it right in time.…

  6. I interviewed Emmanuel Straschnov, the co-founder of the nocode platform [Bubble](https://bubble.io/) a while back. At the time, they were pulling in about $150k/mo. TL;DR: Entrepreneurship is not glamorous, but it's…

  7. Happy Saturday, folks! I curated this week's archaeological news below: [Prehistoric “Swiss Army knife” indicates early humans communicated](https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/955471) TL;DR A particular type of…

  8. TL;DR A stone at Vindolanda, a Roman fort just south of Hadrian’s Wall in the UK, recently made headlines. It was found by volunteer archaeologist, Dylan Herbert who wanted to remove the stone because he kept tripping…