One man's FIRE journey by opening up passive income streams from side hustles
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This is parts 4 and 5 of a 5 part series looking into the 5 pillars of a well-lived life. Time is money. Nowhere is this more stark and explicitly spelled out than in the personal finance and FIRE community. In fact, the entirety of FI/RE is aggressively using your younger time to save and invest … Read more
Yes, this post was literally 5 years in the making. In March of 2016, I came across IFTTT (If this, then that), and I thought it was pretty cool, and went about exploring how I could use it. One of the applets I used was saving each tweet I made onto a google sheet. I … Read more
If you’re a numbers geek like me, and love to see data visualisations and creating dashboards, then you’ve got to use Google Data Studio. Imagine this to be Google Analytics on steroids! Best of all, Google Data Studio is free to use. With that said, let’s dive in. Why use Google Data Studio over Google … Read more
We all know SEO is a tough nut to crack. Between Google algorithm changes, strong competition, and a very thin window (between pages 1 and 2 of SERP) for SEO to drive significant results, it can be a long and frustrating journey. I will share with you my journey of getting this site to rank … Read more
As of today, more than 18.5M BTC has been mined, leaving slightly less than 2.5M BTC left to be mined. This means that of the total supply of bitcoin, more than 88% has been mined. Remember, bitcoin has a hard supply of 21million. As the supple dwindles, and institutional demand strengthens, we’re gonna see a … Read more
I’m gonna play devil’s advocate today. And you may not like it. A lot of the FIRE folks, and I do mean A LOT, even the non US ones, like to present their FIRE strategy essentially as Earn More, Spend Less, Invest the rest in VTSAX and chill. And if you were to backtest that … Read more
Recently, one of my tweets linking out to a blog post got picked up and retweeted by a celebrity with 1.4M followers, and I wanted to share the impact that retweet had on traffic to my blog.
We all know how Google Analytics is an amazing tool to observe and analyse huge data sets with. But sometimes, it is also extremely useful to do a deep-dive into a user level session centric report. This is where the user explorer report comes in really handy. The Google Analytics User Explorer report looks at … Read more
Today, if we wanted to know what a tardigrade looked like, we would simply google it, click on “images” without giving it much thought. And so that was what I have been doing. Only today, did I find out about the history and inspiration behind Google Images. It turned out, J-Lo gave us much more … Read more
This is a review of a premium article on trends.co. Subscribe via my link and take $100 off your subscription. As the global population ages, we know how that can add impact and strain on the workforce, and resources when it comes to medical allocation. However, marketers also have to consider positioning their products and … Read more
Please don’t read that wrongly. I am not the owner of Unstoppable Domains. Unstoppable Domains’ CEO and Co-founder is Matthew Gould. I am merely the owner of my own .crypto domain bought from Unstoppable Domains that lives on the Ethereum blockchain. Which means to say, I am the proud owner of richardtan.crypto. But, what does … Read more
This is part 3 of a 5 part series looking into the 5 pillars of a well-lived life. Outside of water, food and air, probably the one other thing we need to live a meaningful life would be love and companionship. The comfort of love, and the idea that you’re everything to someone else, and that … Read more
So, I was watching the Pomp podcast, who had on his show Jim Cramer from CNBC’s Mad Money. The episode is roughly an hour long, but it’s a great episode to watch as Jim seeks guidance and education on the basics of bitcoin, and how to go about getting exposure to it. As the show … Read more
This is part 2 of a 5 part series looking into the 5 pillars of a well-lived life. In the 2006 Will Smith film, The Pursuit of Happyness, he, as Chris Gardner, went through a tough time in his life, together with his toddler son (portrayed in the film as a 5 year old by … Read more
Bitcoin. Everyone’s talking about it, some people want a lot of it, but nobody really knows how to value bitcoin. As of today, Bitcoin’s market cap is about USD$189 Billion. A single Bitcoin is currently at USD$10,210, down from the last 2 week high of about $12,000. If you think this is volatile, where were … Read more
So, in 2017, I’d jumped on the dropshipping bandwagon in exploring another side hustle, and today, will spill the beans on everything I’ve learned. Is it a legitimate side hustle? Yes. Is it for me? No. Is it for you? Well, find out how I made $3,630 dropshipping products on Aliexpress and Shopify, and then come to your own conclusion.
Here are some other alternatives to print-on-demand sites like Redbubble when it comes to building your t-shirt empire.
This is the first of a new series in which I look into the 5 pillars that to me, make up the components conducive for a well-lived life. Health is a factor that, unfortunately, the healthy tend to ignore until they aren’t healthy anymore. As in most things in life, preventive measures are better than … Read more
As FIRE enthusiasts, there are some, for whom life only truly begins, when they step out of the 9-5 and attain FI. The aggressive savings rate and the extreme frugalities and effectively 10 or more years of the fittest times of their lives are dedicated to accelerating their path to “freedom”. I admire that tenacity, … Read more
It’s hard to believe we’re into Q3 of 2020, a year that will definitely go down in history, as the year Richard took a break from work and was a stay-home dad. Okay no, the year the real economy went to hell, while Wall Street partied like it was 1999. In the face of this … Read more