One man's FIRE journey by opening up passive income streams from side hustles
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Monthly charts are a good way to assess macro and longer term trends, and Bitcoin just printed its 2nd highest monthly close ever when it closed above $13,700 on 31 October 2020. Bitcoin only closed higher on the monthly in that crazy December 2017 bull run, when it wicked up to $19K, but then quickly … Read more
Over the last few months, there’s been a major shift in the narrative of bitcoin. Up until July, Bitcoin has always been seen as a speculative play. Outside of the previous narrative of bitcoin being used for nefarious purposes and scams, it was also something that only a few math nerds could appreciate. But, starting … Read more
October started just as September ended, with Bitcoin pacing around the USD$10,500 region. But what a crazy 3 weeks it has been, with Bitcoin moving up towards $11,000 a week later, and just yesterday, piercing through $12,000 and straight up to $13,237 on the back of the announcement from PayPal that it will soon allow … Read more
WordPress recently released a new feature with an integration with Twitter, allowing for entire blog posts to be simultaneously published on Twitter as a thread, or a tweetstorm. So naturally, this post will be both a tutorial on how to do it, as well as a test of it on my twitter account. Apparently, formatting, … Read more
The luxury retail segment is always on the lookout for the new wealthy. And the lux horology seems to have locked their sights on the crypto rich. Crypto has seen a multi-year bear market since its 2017 highs, but are now looking to ride a new bull wave in 2020. But, in the decade since … Read more
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