Traveled to Kiruna, Sweden to see the lights and it was overcast. Still had a great time. I brought back a kilogram of iron ore pellets. I don't know why.

Love this. Cool.

The CPB didn't make any shows. They were a distribution system for public funds. The public broadcasting stations in the US are very independent and mostly locally funded, but stations in poorer and rural areas will probably hurt more.

I also have no instructions for putting money in from outside New Zealand.

I have included no instructions on how to put money into the account, nor have I included a "call to action."
I did have a suggestion that makes it easier to insert the numbers into a particular banking app, but I decided to remove those instructions.

There is no charge for this on either end if both people have New Zealand bank accounts. Recently the system has been updated to be almost instant.

Here in New Zealand we have a payment system that will be alien to most Americans, but is similar to what's in most other countries. Here a payee gives out their bank account number freely, and then anyone may put money into the account.

I used a "free" website and did not purchase my own URL. I say free in quotes because the company's URL is part of my free URL and there is a little tiny "made by ..." text at the bottom of the page.

This is what is called economic rent. All of these payment services are trying to position themselves to get a cut of every sale.

For example, a company might provide a service that allows the seller to accept credit card payments. This make someone more likely to purchase, but there is a cost. Some payment service companies charge the buyer, but usually they charge the seller and pass the cost on down to the buyer.

Payment services reduce this friction by making payment easier or making it seem easier.

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People who deal with sales talk about "friction." In this context friction are all the little things that make the sale difficult, and may cause the buyer to not buy. Payment is the biggest source of friction.