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Half Baked Business Ideas
This is a website of half baked business ideas. You can submit your own and vote on others. Browsing the ideas might spark a few of your own. Just for fun, I asked ChatGPT if “uber for medicines” is a good business idea. It came back with some smart considerations. Might be worth interrogating your…
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How to Get Rich With Artificial Intelligence
Alex Hormozi with an 18-minute video on this topic 🤖 Through the first 16 minutes he puts AI into context and predicts some use-cases. Paraphrasing…
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Imposter Syndrome vs Growth Mindset
Adam Grant tweets… Impostor syndrome: “I don’t know what I’m doing. It’s only a matter of time until everyone finds out.” Growth mindset: “I don’t know what I’m doing yet. It’s only a matter of time until I figure it out.” The highest form of self-confidence is believing in your ability to learn. I have…
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He Made $800,000 Freelancing on Upwork
A short video from Josh Burns: How I Made $800,000 Freelancing on Upwork 🤑 Check out his Upwork profile here. Josh’s first tip from the video is to choose and learn a high-paying skill. He researched high-paying skills and picked the one he liked the most: database administration. He now charges $150/hour on Upwork and…
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Flipping a Website for $238,356 Profit in 2 Years
Mushfiq Sarker has been flipping websites since 2008. As detailed in an in-depth case study, he bought a website in the outdoors niche in April 2020. The site was earning $300 per month via the Amazon affiliate program, and Mushfiq bought it for $23,000. By the end of the year, he’d spent another $22,086 on…
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Learning To Ride A Bicycle
Words from the book Superforecasting (an excellent read, btw)… The knowledge required to ride a bicycle can’t be fully captured in words and conveyed to others. We need “tacit knowledge,” the sort we only get from bruising experience. To learn to ride a bicycle, we must try to ride one. A year ago it was…
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Ben Tossell asked for AI predictions and got some interesting responses. Including: One of those predictions was written by AI, btw 😜 My favorite prediction comes from Justin Brooke… The future of AI isn’t big tools like Jasper, it’s all of us having our own personalized AI writers. Trained to write in our voice, for…
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Copy What Works
Fun fact: you don’t need some magically original idea to start a successful business. Few successful businesses sprouted from a truly original idea. Google wasn’t the first search engine and Facebook wasn’t the first social network. What business ideas do you already see working well for other people? 🤔 Look here: Can you do something…
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My Favorite Work Music
It depends what kind of work I’m doing… What kind of work music do you listen to? 🎧
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She Makes $240K/Year Writing Resumes
Mary Southern is the founder of Resume Assassin, a resume writing service 📝 Starting out, Mary didn’t think she had many skills to start a business, and had narrowed down her list of business ideas to… Fortunately, she decided to give resume writing a go, and one of her first “great decisions” was to reach…
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From $14/hr to $100k/year in 3 Years
Until recently, Kaila VanSumer’s Twitter bio noted that she’d gone from earning $14 per hour to $100,000 per year in just 3 years 📈 I got in touch to learn more about her story. Turns out she is a self-taught product designer working 100% remotely. Kaila’s background… I started out in customer service after earning…
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From Broke to $391,000/Year on YouTube
How does Cathrin Manning make money online? Cathrin Manning is a vlogger and online entrepreneur. She helps people grow their online audience through her website The Content Bug and her YouTube videos. In her November 2022 video, Catherine explains how she went from having $367.22 in her bank account to making almost 400k a year……
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Perfecting Blogging Review
12 things you should know about Perfecting Blogging, Sophia Lee’s blogging course. Essential info, hidden costs, red flags, alternatives…
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Jimi Hendrix On Getting Started
My favorite new podcast is called Founders 😍 The show is basically host David Senra summarizing the biographies of great leaders / entrepreneurs / creatives. I really enjoyed the episode about Jimi Hendrix, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time 🎸 despite dying at age 27 back in 1970.…
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Roko’s Basilisk: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment?
Speaking of AI, there’s something called Roko’s Basilisk, which Slate refers to as “the most terrifying thought experiment of all time” 😱 As Rational Wiki describes it… Its conclusion is that an all-powerful artificial intelligence from the future might retroactively punish those who did not help bring about its existence, including those who merely knew…
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