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There is overlap here, and I'm also generalizing, but I think it's fair to say that millionaires — and sometimes billionaires — were made in: The 2000's because of web 2.0 (e.g. social media, blogging)The 2010's because of crypto and blockchain technologyYou could have a shitty blog, but if

This post is an exploration of balajis' concept of the network union: These are network unions, predecessors of network states. Large groups of people organized online to advance their collective interests via a series of tactics, culminating in coordinated exit as customers or residents if an accord cannot be found.

BitClout is a "Crypto Social Network" where individuals have coins with fluctuating values. Since you can't withdraw funds from the platform, some are calling it a scam.

Las Vegas casinos do a lot of stuff to mitigate risk, especially risk of theft. Just look at how many cameras they have above you next time you're walking through a casino. Makes sense. People will try to cheat or steal, which causes you to lose money, so you monitor

In his podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire, John Lee Dumas often mentions how important it is to FOCUS: Follow One Course Until Success And the other day I noticed that Robert Kiyosaki mentions this same acronym in his famous book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. In the past, I've told students at

There's $400,000 in our checking account. What should we do with it?This is a question a family member asked me the other day. When you get asked a question like this, your DTNFTU (Desire To Not Fuck This Up) levels are bound to spike. What if I give

Things aren't going exactly as planned. As I mentioned in my article about the problem with New Year's resolutions, my initial goal with this blog was to publish one post per week. But it's been 4 weeks. And I haven't published anything. I knew this would happen eventually, but I

Talk about a loaded question. But it's a question that we as parents have to ask ourselves because we're faced with two conflicting realities: Everyone tells us screens are bad for our kids.It is impossible to remove screens from our lives.I try to avoid giving people advice. It

We're redoing all of our emails over at NativShark. All of them. Onboarding, account notifications, weekly content roundups — the works. From the time that we founded this company, I've written 1,070 emails. If we also add the 50-100 or so automated sequences I've written over the years, we're somewhere

The other day, I was listening to an interview of Leo Babauta of zen habits. I used to closely follow his blog many years ago, so I was interested to see what he is up to these days. In that interview, I heard him talk about how some of his

I used to think New Year's resolutions were dumb because they seemed like an excuse to put off what you should be doing now. I'll start eating healthy after I finish enjoying all these holiday treats.I'll begin writing my book two weeks from now, after I've taken this week

"I can't learn anything by myself." Have you said or heard this before? Say you want to learn Korean. You buy a bunch of books, download a bunch of apps, then... well, you study at first. But after a while, it just kind of falls to the wayside, and you

Hey, I need you to make X. Could you get it back to me by this afternoon?Sorry, but no. Here is a metric for determining whether you're spending your time in the most effective way: Did someone else ask you to do this, or did you decide on your

Our apartment in Tokyo has a shower room. It’s a room with both a shower and a bath: When I give our 18-month-old son a “bath,” what we actually do is sit on the floor of the shower room with a bunch of toys, and I wash him there.

It was 2014, and I was at a Starbucks inside of Terminal 21, a mall in the heart of Bangkok. I’d only been working for about 45 minutes, but already I felt exhausted. Working seemed to take a lot more effort when I was my only boss. Still, I

I don’t like exercising. I know what the fitness buff response to this is: It’s not that you don’t like exercising. You just haven’t found the right exercise for you.Please allow me to humbly disagree. Because I’ve tried pretty much all the things. And

When it happened I was standing next to my locker. It was the second week of high school, and I wasn’t having a great time. My grandma had just died, I had just gotten braces, and my hairdresser messed up my haircut, so I had to shave my head.

A few years ago, a girl named Chiyako typed a short message into her phone, and it traveled from Singapore, all the way across the Pacific Ocean, to Oregon, where I was at the time. And it was perhaps the most flattering thing I’ve ever been told: We were

In the second grade, my assistant art teacher was named Mrs. Adler, and she was a total bitch. I don’t remember specifically what she did to make us kids despise her so much. Suffice it to say that art class — which should be one of the most fun classes