One man's FIRE journey by opening up passive income streams from side hustles
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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
Image by maja7777 from Pixabay As we dive headfirst into the trifecta of seemingly urgent and unsolvable problems of Climate Change, Overpopulation and Food Scarcity, let’s take a look at the problem of food scarcity, and how synthetic or cultured food companies are tackling that issue. When we talk about cultured food in this article, … Read more
Featured Image by Sarah Richter from Pixabay I previously wrote about joining the shutterstck contributor program, thinking about uploading photos that I take anyway onto the platform, and if anyone likes it and buys it for use, I can get some money essentially for free, doing things I would have done anyway. Well, I uploaded … Read more
I stopped my CFD trading in March and April due to the volatility and ongoing uncertainty in the markets, coupled with the lack of luck on the job hunt front. Many companies are still laying off staff, especially in the marketing that has typically been seen more as a cost centre in trying times. However, … Read more
The covid-19 pandemic has swept the global markets and caused countless job losses and companies to go belly up. While the stock markets have not fully priced in the effects (and more importantly, the after-effects) of this seismic shock, I believe the economy will be slow to restart, and will have to grind its way … Read more