The Non-Idiot’s Guide to Life, According to Iconic Investor Charlie Munger
Admit your mistakes. Forget about regrets. Move on. Warren Buffet gets a lot of the attention in the investing world. Most people don’t know his badass 97-year-old partner Charlie Munger.
Read full storyIt’s *Not* Too Late to Join the Creator Economy
You can discover your life experiences have a lot of value. Creative people used to be a joke. If you told people ten years ago that you wanted to be a writer and maybe publish a book, they’d say “get a real job ya bum.”
Read full storyEight Smart Ways to Prepare for the next Bitcoin and Ethereum Supercycle
And how you can make money from it. Bitcoin and Ethereum took the beating of a lifetime in 2021. There has been a big pump in price earlier in the year, followed by the Elon dump that some say he did as a form of billionaire fun. The markets for cryptocurrencies led by Bitcoin and Ethereum are slowly rebuilding. A strong foundation in price and new users joining both networks is forming.
Read full storyEight Traits of a Person Who Doesn’t Know They Will Become a Great Entrepreneur
Short-term thinking isn’t entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs can be real douchebags. The people who identify as entrepreneurs are often pretenders. They’re the ones looking for fame and glory by running a business and making money.
Read full storyFive Things That Are Supposedly Bad for You but Can Actually Be Glorious
And one unexpected good thing that can turn bad. There’s a lot that can rot your soul. We’re surrounded by things that are bad for us. From phones, to Netflix, to too much hanky-panky, to sugary foods, to writing that destroys our mental health. If I had a bowl of popcorn for everybody who said “that’s bad for you,” I’d have a lifetime supply to eat while watching Hollywood movies staring Matt Lame-on.
Read full storyIf You Want to Achieve Big Things, Sit in Silence and Embrace Quiet Time
“Some of our greatest ideas, art, and inventions came from quiet and cerebral people who knew how to tune in to their inner worlds and the treasures to be found there.”. I’m overwhelmed by inputs right now. I have some big things I want to do like get married, write a book, launch a course, go on a holiday after 18 months of sitting at home, etc.
Read full storyThe New Content Platform You Can Make Money from (And Dominate)
I strongly suggest you learn about it and add this new income stream. Here are strategies you can steal. New social media apps normally die in a horrible car crash. Literally, copied and thrown in the bin after a few months. I’ve been hearing about Web 3.0 platforms for content creators since March. I decided to take the plunge and break my rule of staying away from new apps.
Read full storySeven Signs You’ve Accidentally Gone from Investing to Gambling
A well-known Youtuber got exposed as a scammer and gives us a powerful lesson. Four years in love. A beautiful anniversary dinner, and I couldn’t eat a bite. One of my favorite Youtubers ripped my heart out and left it on the floor still pumping blood. There were accusations of wrong-doing. Nobody believed them. There’s just no way an honest guy with a wife and kid could turn into a scammer, surely?
Read full storyWe’ve Been Forced to Become Investors Whether We like It or Not
Our money needs to generate a higher return to maintain our purchasing power. This presents a unique problem. A savings account is a Picasso work of art. You sit back, relax, put your money in each month, and get paid interest. Those were the glory days. I remember getting 5% interest on my savings account and feeling like Spiderman.
Read full storyThese Are the Exact Phases You Go Through When You Attempt to Change Your Life
Advice from Jason Capital made me go “I felt like that too.” Mastering this feeling can help you stop quitting a good thing. TikTok isn’t my idea of fun. TikTok feels like cheap entertainment. You typically get less than 60 seconds of “content” and then get left feeling groped and empty. So you keep watching more. After two hours, you don’t know where the night went.
Read full storyWe Learned Why Elon Musk Said Bad Things About Bitcoin and Crashed the Price
Bitcoin’s price fell off a cliff, and it left many people confused. The price massacre took place at the same time Elon announced that Tesla would no longer accept Bitcoin as payment for their electric cars, because they viewed the electricity needed to keep the network running as bad for the environment.
Read full storyHere’s How to Write on a Web 3.0 Platform
I thought it was obvious. It turns out many people want to know. Web 3.0 is like discovering the internet in 1996. It’s one of the most exciting opportunities of our lifetime. Yet, because Web 3.0 is a tech revolution, it’s buried in hard-to-understand information. The biggest opportunity I see on Web 3.0 is the ability for writers to publish work and earn money from it. That’s my main focus right now.
Read full storyA Peculiar Formula for Financial Freedom (To Buy Back Your Time Faster)
Inspired by a high-paying executive who helped raise over $300M for tech startups. Financial freedom isn’t living in a caravan at 65 with your swimmers on. A post by Justin Welsh, who left a fast-growing startup in Los Angeles to work for himself, reminded me of true financial freedom. He’s helped multiple startups collectively raise more than $300M.
Read full storyHere’s How To Recharge Your Brain When It Stops Functioning Properly
There are reset buttons you can push, especially after 18 months of collective burnout. The internet nukes my brain, often. My brain gets stuck in a death loop of thoughts about stuff that really doesn’t matter, that I won’t remember on the day I take my last breath.
Read full story9 Things Most People Learn Far Too Late in Their Careers
“Could I trade 20% of your salary offer for one day off per week?”. Career decisions require my head to be WD-40’d. It’s the hardest part of a career. Do you stay or do you go? Do you hop on over to the greener grass, or stay on the pee-stained grass you’re already sitting on? Or do you go and look for a new field of dreams to work in and become an entrepreneur?
Read full storySemi-Controversial Things to Expand Your Thinking
Social media will probably become fully decentralized in the next two years. Unconventional views of the world help challenge the status quo. If you don’t push the boundaries sometimes of what is politically correct, you risk becoming a sheep that blindly follows the pack. Sheep can accidentally walk off a cliff when they can’t see far enough in front of all the other sheep.
Read full storyHere’s How You Can Replace Boring Small Talk with Deep Conversations
Meaningful conversations can lead to bizarre opportunities. “How are you?” is a lie. Every time I hear it at the start of a conversation with a stranger, it’s rare they actually mean it. How are you? is a throwaway line we’re taught to say at a young age, so we can appear to be polite.
Read full storyWealth Is the Ability to Fully Experience Life
A different way to think about money. Making money feels like a hamster wheel. What’s the point of it all? I’ve been riffing on this idea for a while. These are the ideas that have shaped my thinking so far:
Read full storyLessons from a Badass Writer Who Sold His Newsletter for $17.2 Million
I searched the internet for weeks to discover the harder to find insights from Sam Parr’s sale of “The Hustle.”. Email is older than most content creators on Youtube driving Lambos.
Read full storyMaking Money on LinkedIn Feels like a Secret Society
Let me show you exactly how content creators make money on LinkedIn. It’s not obvious — and I’ve been doing it 7 years. Linkedin is Big Bird in an Amazon Boardroom when it comes to social media.
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