🐪Hump Days #008

8 is great! Or... GR8, as they say.

It’s been eight weeks since I started this newsletter, and so far there are 412 of you here with me! Thanks for being here. I’m continually working on improving the newsletter, so if you have ANY suggestions on what types of content you’d like to see on a weekly basis, do let me know by leaving a comment or replying back to this newsletter.

Essential Thoughts / News from Me

I am closing in on finishing an eCommerce store that I’ve been working on for the past few months, it is similar to the business I had before (star posters), but I think I’ve made a lot of improvements on this one the product quality has been upped, which I’m particularly proud of. I’ll share it with the you when it is ready, and I’m excited to do so!

In the News

• Epic Games files an injunction against Apple after Fortnite (Epic’s Flagship Game) was taken down from the App Store last week.

• Wuhan, the center of the COVID-19 outbreak, hosts a pool party after THREE months of no reported new cases - no masks or social distancing. Wow.

• Oracle is now in the running to buy Tik Tok - in an odd twist of events.

• Tesla shares are spiking, overvalued, and still no one really understands why.

WFH Station of the Week

Cozy vibes, good lighting. A perfect night owl setup.

Question and Answer

Q: “How do I file my taxes for long term capital gains tax on stocks? Is there a document I need to download or is there a service that I can use? ” -trepz in my Discord community (free to join)

A: Typically when you sell your shares, the brokerage keeps track of your trading activity. At the end of every year they send you a form in January (I believe it's the 1099-B) which details your gains and losses from the previous year. That's all you really need, and then when you file your taxes you simply reference that form.

Leave a comment with your question if you’d like to be featured next week!

Video of the Week (4:52)

Tom Scott is an investigative-journalist-sort-of-guy-gone-YouTuber and in this video he investigates a tiny island, which is due to disappear due to wave erosion "probably around the year 2020". Which raised the obvious question: is it still there?

Thanks again for reading Hump Days. Exciting stuff ahead!

- Humphrey