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BankSimple
The web is buzzing with the news that Alex Payne is leaving Twitter to co-found BankSimple.
What is BankSimple:
A simpler bank that is easy to use.
A bank that treats you with respect.
No extraneous features.
No hidden fees.Sounds great.
At the tail end of 2008, my brother (K) and I had a long discussion about banking. We fantasied about The Nice Bank (thenicebank.com is still available BTW). A bank that values it’s customers, that isn’t greedy, that has a fantastic web, mobile and voice interface, whose primary objective is to safeguard the money of it’s customers, and who never ever tries to up-sell shit you won’t need.
I’ll be following the progress of BankSimple with great interest.
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Old Friends
A friend of mine, Tom O’Neill, had his first book published recently, Old Friends — The Lost Tales of Fionn Mac Cumhaill.
Uprooted from city life by the death of his father, Dark is beckoned into a rath as he wanders the fields near his new home. There, he meets people big and small whose magnificent stories of warriors, monsters and the fairy people provide an escape from his crumbling school and home life and take him deep into the world of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Fianna.
I’m starting into it tonight, so I may write a wee review in the not too distant future.
Congratulations Tom.
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Our human heaven is borne of our human arrogance. The egotistical notion that we are more important than every other creature. And we’re not.
Our human heaven is borne of our human arrogance. The egotistical notion that we are more important than every other creature. And we’re not.
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“Extraordinary people are people who are just wiling to be extra ordinary.” They accept how incredibly ordinary they are and just do their best–warts and all. They don’t wait until they are something more than just ordinary.
“Extraordinary people are people who are just wiling to be extra ordinary.” They accept how incredibly ordinary they are and just do their best–warts and all. They don’t wait until they are something more than just ordinary.
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Original Copies
I am trying to open a new bank account (as a new customer) and I am required to submit some documents to prove my identity and address.
One of the documents required is a utility bill. I don’t have a landline telephone, gas or a television package. The only utility bills I can get my hands on are for my electricity and broadband.
I chose to eschew paper billing a long time ago, so the original copies of these bills are in a digital format (PDF). These are not accepted as an original copies by the bank.
What will happen when paper bills are extinct? How will we prove our identity to banks? Verified by Facebook?