One man's FIRE journey by opening up passive income streams from side hustles
richard
I’m always excited to test into new features, and Google has recently published a beta plugin for WordPress to enable us to easily create Web Stories. What are Web Stories? Yes, Google Web Stories. They look exactly the same as your Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook Stories, except they now sit on your site, and can … Read more
As we celebrate Bitcoin climbing back up on the right side of USD10,000, I thought I’ll share an in depth article on all things bitcoin. Hopefully, this can provide you with some interesting information and the impetus to find out more, and also have a little fun reading about. What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin, as described … Read more
My previous article on property, about selling one to buy two, got pretty popular. So today, I’m going to follow it up with a deeper look into how and where to start researching into your investment property. This will be based on my discussions with my property agents, aligned with our overall strategy and combining … Read more
This is a bit of a fun one. I’d recently been tagged by Fire and Wide for the #awesomebloggeraward, which seems like a know-you-better type of post where you answer ten questions from the tagger, and in turn tag a few bloggers to answer ten questions of your own. Thanks for tagging me, and so … Read more
Covid has proven to be a game changer in many ways. We’ve seen the drastic changes to how we work, and how office buildings are less necessary than we think, which will lead to long term structural changes in the REITs landscape. Just like how covid massively bumped up Zoom’s usage, I believe the same … Read more
If you’ve already set up your own domain via Bluehost and are blogging, did you know that you can also have your custom email address with name@domain.com for free without incurring additional cost? In the next few minutes, we’ll go through the steps to finding this page, creating your custom domain email, and adding it … Read more
I had previously briefly written about my lucky break in property, and how we stumbled our way into becoming “property investors”. It has since become known as the “sell 1 buy 2 property” approach by property agents, and in the next few minutes I’ll elaborate more on this approach and the overarching strategy in mind … Read more
There’s been a growing trend of solopreneurs, or a one-man band, making a business work and scaling it alone to hit $1M in revenue before hiring a team. It has been a growing trend, and a confluence of factors will make it truly explode in the next decade. Let’s explore the idea around being a … Read more
I didn’t do much in June to generate any side income, and still ended up having some income streaming in. This is the power of truly passive incomes. I didn’t end up doing any trades, because I was busy working on a new project/product that I’m aiming to unveil in July. I did get a … Read more
We’re heading into the 2nd half of 2020 in a few days, and boy, is this an exhausting year or what? It feels like we crammed 5 years of events into half a year, and it ain’t even over yet. With the pandemic heading firmly into Wave II territory (Except for US, which hasn’t left … Read more
Most hobbyist bloggers want to try to minimise their costs of hosting and blogging by placing some ads, and maybe a referral link here and there. I’m no different. Money is money. Even if it’s just enough for coffee. But more importantly, I also like to share software or products I personally use, and can … Read more
For new bloggers thinking about monetising their blogs, there are a few ways to go about it. You could start adding affiliate links, typically from amazon, or a specific product/brand you may know well. Another common way to start monetising the blog is to add display banner ads. In this post, we’ll go through the … Read more
As a family with kids pursuing FIRE, it definitely puts more than a spanner in the works, as opposed to a DINK (Dual Income No Kids) situation. That said, I wouldn’t change a thing about it. Kids are frustrating, tiresome, tedious and frustrating. But they also form some of the best memories in life, and … Read more
As casinos and sports shut down in the name of Covid, the world’s gamblers naturally turn to the only thing they can bet on. Stonks. People like Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, in the wake of sports pausing, re-fashioned himself to Davey Day Trader, and started trading stocks and buying up airlines at the … Read more
Elon Musk is many things. He blabbers off on Twitter, he slave drives his employees, but there is no doubting his genius and intensity in making things happen. And boy did things happen. On 30 May, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 2 astronauts into space for the first time since the end of the space program … Read more
We’ve all heard the horror stories about hyper targeting and personalisation. You know, when you’re talking to your friend about taking a vacation, and then the next time you open up Facebook or Google, you’re suddenly inundated with ads about Beautiful Bali or Incredible India. Are your devices and social platforms listening to you? What … Read more
Retirement. Kicking it back and taking things down a notch. Relaxing by the beach and really living life. How many of us dream of that on a daily basis as we stare at our excel sheets and grind away at work? But exactly how much do you need to retire? A lot of people don’t … Read more
We all know that a fast loading website is key to ranking in search results, and also the possibility of getting featured on Google Discover. Of course, the fastest loading website is still nothing if you don’t have great content that helps the reader to solve a problem, or answering their queries. So, content aside, … Read more
We all have to admit. 2020 is turning out to be crazier and crazier. I thought Covid-19 dominating headlines was going to be it. But 2020 kept saying “hold my beer” and coming up with crazier antics like the ongoing police brutality and racism situation unfolding in the US that’s spreading globally, and the stock … Read more
One of the things I find interesting is looking out for innovative and alternative investment opportunities, partly because traditional investments sound boring (though important) to me, and partly because these alternative investments tend to be less correlated to the overall stock market. Let’s explore the fine wine market today. The power of technology bridging alternative … Read more