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Consistently not stupid
Words from billionaire investor Charlie Munger: “…it is in the nature of things that many hard problems are best solved when they are addressed backward” With that in mind, instead of asking: Apply the inversion principle and ask yourself: You’ll probably find that the success you seek can largely be achieved by getting out of your own…
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$24,176 per month reselling on eBay
Ryan Roots reported in a July 2017 video that he and his wife earned $145,058 in six months ($24,176 per month) reselling stuff on eBay… In a more recent video, Ryan doesn’t specify exactly how much they earned reselling on eBay but reports $185,881 in total revenue for Q1 2020 – works out to $61,960 per month…
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Ryan Holiday’s best career advice
Ryan Holiday is only 33 years old and has already written a bunch of bestselling books and had some mighty impressive career success. He recently wrote about “the canvas strategy,” calling it the best career advice he’s ever received. It’s supposedly the same strategy that Bill Belichick 🏈 Leonardo da Vinci 🎨 and Benjamin Franklin 🇺🇸 used to great effect. In brief,…
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$6k/month newsletter for black women
Sam Parr also has a podcast called My First Million. In a recent episode they mentioned a premium newsletter called Hinged Club that’s apparently only a few months old and is already earning $6k/month. Now how can I describe the newsletter without using words that will trigger your spam filter? 🤔 At the risk of sounding like a complete prude,…
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$1 Million Per Month Content Strategy
Sam Parr runs a daily email newsletter called The Hustle that apparently has over 1.5 million subscribers and does $1 million per month in revenue (source). Back in 2018, Sam gave this 27-minute talk about the company’s content creation process… It’s an excellent crash course in how to produce compelling content (or train others to do so).…
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Little Bets
More important than big actions or great ideas are what Peter Sims calls “little bets” Little bets are concrete actions taken to discover, test, and develop ideas that are achievable and affordable. Watch this 6-minute video to learn how creators like Chris Rock and Pixar use the concept of little bets to arrive at big wins 🥳…
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Deepfake yourself for $$$
Speaking of artificial intelligence, Alethea.ai is described here as “an online marketplace for AI-generated characters where individuals can give permission for their image and voice to be used to make custom avatars and then get paid for it.” 💰… For example, you can book Alex Masmej – a bit of a legend in crypto circles, apparently – to say whatever you want…
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Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and GPT-3
GPT-3 is an open source machine learning model, and the newest tech magic everyone’s talking about 🤩 Elon Musk and Sam Altman are cofounders of the company that created it. A quick description of GPT-3 from TNW: GPT-3 can do what no other model can do (well): perform specific tasks without any special tuning. You can ask…
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Michelle Schroeder-Gardner – Blogger and Online Course Creator
How does Michelle make money online? Michelle Schroeder-Gardner is an American blogger who regularly reports monthly earnings of $100,000 or more. She started her blog – Making Sense of Cents – in 2011 at the age of 22, and has since received numerous awards and recognitions for her work. She mainly earns money from affiliate…
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Aura Dominguez Canto – Online Lottery Winner
How did Aura make money online? Despite living in Panama, Aura was able to buy a ticket for the Florida Lotto online via theLotter back in 2017, and won the jackpot. Here’s an explainer video from TheLotter about their online lottery system: theLotter featured Aura in this video after her big win: Aura’s win is…
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Will “Rush” Wierzba – Professional Gamer
How does Will make money online? Will plays video games professionally. Well, just one video game really → Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. As of this writing he plays for Complexity Gaming, so he usually competes as part of a team. Will’s team receives prize money if they perform well in a tournament. You can see Will…
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Erik Finman – Bitcoin Investor
How did Erik make money online? This 2017 video from BuzzFeed News tells the story: In short, Erik started investing in bitcoin back in 2011 when he was just 12 years old and bitcoin was worth just $12 per token. Six years later, the value of bitcoin had increased almost 500x, and 18-year-old Erik was…
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Mr. Money Mustache – Investor with Betterment
How does Mr. Money Mustache make money online? Mr. Money Mustache makes money online in many ways, but for the purposes of this profile I’m just focusing on the money he’s earned off investing with a robo advisor called Betterment. He wrote about putting $100,000 into Betterment back in late 2014: In the years since,…
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Curtis Herbert – Founder of Slopes
How does Curtis make money online? Curtis is the founder of Slopes, an app for skiers and snowboarders. According to the product blog on Indie Hackers, the first version of the app was launched back in September 2013, and Curtis was able to go full-time on it in October 2017. Slopes is a freemium product.…
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Andrew Tran – Founder of Physio Memes
How does Andrew make money online? Andrew built a company called Physio Memes, described like so on Facebook: Physio Memes sells all types of PT-themed apparel and products via an online store: How much money does Andrew make? Andrew reported in a July 2019 interview that company revenue was $4098/month, with profits of $2512/month. His…
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