Sirius Stuff

It’s ridiculous how much paper - and money - is wasted with sending out routine stuff in the mail.
NW Natural did things closer to the right way - they not only offered Paperless Billing but they gave away 10 $100 cash prizes for doing so.
I’d rather have gotten $10 off my bill for sure but […]

Lawrence Lessig has a fascinating article on how the State of California tried to simplify preparing taxes. It used payroll information to do a “ReadyReturn” that could be just signed and returned. Or they could use the info on it to make their own return.
Of course, the tax preparation lobby started to pressure […]