Achieve sustainable income and a world-class lifestyle in record time.
I think, probably, the most effective and enjoyable route to sustainable diversified income streams is by building multiple small projects simultaneously. My doing so over the last two years has significantly improved my wealth and well being, and it has afforded me the time to think about bigger picture things while genuinely enjoying my life.
Think of it like diversifying your portfolio. Except instead of a portfolio, it’s your career. The greater the number of income-generating projects you have running at the same time, the higher the likelihood that any one individual product will have value inherent enough to ‘take…
How poor leadership and government ineptitude is exaggerating the COVID-19 problem.
One of the reasons I think we’re seeing a large vaccination pushback is that the public is essentially losing faith in modern institutions. And while it’s having an unfortunate impact on public health, I understand and empathize with that belief.
Over the last year and a half, the American people have been told by both government and major media:
Human beings are slaves to motivational cycles. Such cycles define our productivity, expertise, and well-being.
Most things in life are cyclical. Our mood, happiness, and productivity are no exception.
Similarly to how your meteorologist predicts rainfall in a certain area over time, you can also predict patterns of human motivation and output over the course of your life.
Generally, people follow a similar pattern of activity when beginning a task. Initially, their output is high. They’re motivated and intrinsically interested in what lay ahead.
Over time, however, this interest wanes. The shiny gloss of whatever you’re doing turns to a dull matte, and you fall prey to tedious monotony.
This happens for several reasons. For…
What is consciousness? What imbues you or me with the peculiar ability to experience something? To experience love? Or sadness?
Or just the perception of experiencing something at all?
Is consciousness an intrinsic component of a sufficiently complex system? Do things get more ‘conscious’ the more complicated they are, given the right substrate?
Can artificial minds think, or would they merely plod along a deterministic path of simple actions and responses until the end of time. On that note, are we any different?
To me, this is the most important question of all time, and everything else pales in comparison…
The era of human creativity is coming to a close
The era of human creativity is coming to a close. We’re currently T minus five on the launchpad of exponential machine intelligence growth, and the ramifications are already making themselves clear in the form of text generation. Other modalities will follow.
For example, services like conversion.ai now tout the ability to write full-length articles and blog posts, all at the click of a button. Previously, successful writers and content creators employed a host of clever tweaks and techniques to get a leg up on their peers. …
Want to feel good? Feel bad first.
As I grow older, I’ve started to notice a peculiar pattern in my capacity for work and my ability to remain productive.
Case in point: some days I feel like shit. I don’t even want to get out of bed, let alone make breakfast, go to work, or write an article.
Other times, I wake up feeling energized and unstoppable.
On those days, I feel on — like there’s some cerebral switch that has been flicked that allows me to temporarily surpass my limits. Things are simple, I am resolute, and I accomplish a great deal.
It’s as if life…
Improve your productivity by up to 20% overnight fixing simple things you probably already do. No drugs or gimmicks.
Most people go about performance optimization wrong. They’ll start with a lofty, ill-defined goal — to become more productive, for example — and end with a hastily-cobbled together regimen of experimental nootropics or far-flung meditation practices.
It doesn’t have to be that difficult.
At our core, we are animals. We respond primarily to the constraints of our environment, and operate relatively predictably to the same inputs; you are irrational, but predictably irrational, and that makes self improvement easy.
One of our irrationalities is the tendency to focus on positives rather than negatives. What we should add to our regimen rather…
Not all automations are made the same.
Automation, at it’s core, is essentially front-loading your work. You spend a certain amount of time, energy, or money at time x so that you don’t have to repeatedly spend those resources at time y. Sounds great, right?
But not all automations are made the same.
As the concept of automation is gaining popularity, an unfortunate problem I’m noticing more and more often is the propensity to jump the gun a little bit; to automate a process that you probably shouldn’t be automating at this point in your business lifecycle.
For example, let’s say you’re a small business owner with…
There are no downsides, and it’s free. Take it every day and watch your life miraculously change for the better.
If someone offered you a magic pill that made you significantly smarter, funnier, healthier, and more attractive, would you take it?
What if they offered you that choice every night of your life? Would you take it as often as possible?
I would. One of my primary drivers is maximizing my performance in life, and better cognitive skills, health, and attractiveness is a three-for-one. I suspect many of you think similarly (hence why you’re reading this).
Now consider: that magic pill is sleep, and that someone is you.
You give yourself the choice, each and every night, to sleep well…
In many cases, self-employment is the safer, healthier, more lucrative option. Here’s why.
There is a small minority of people that actively love their jobs. They enjoy going to work every morning, have great relationships with their employers, and consider their careers fulfilling and useful.
This article is not for them.
The majority of human beings, unfortunately, do not enjoy their careers. They see them as little more than overgrown chores, and their bosses as more evolved (and more malicious) helicopter parents.
Most of us would not work for somebody else if it wasn’t necessary to our financial well-being. Bosses make us do things we don’t like for employers that largely see us…
Nick Saraev
This place is a dumping ground for my ideas. Most are total garbage, but every now and then you’ll find the Internet equivalent of day old, leftover pizza. Mmm.
