Relationships, finance, and innovations
1. Don’t discuss online keyboard warriors.
You’re not changing anybody’s opinion.
Do it only for entertainment and if you have extra time. Prepare to feel frustrated and drawn into pointless arguments.
2. Don’t ever humiliate the other person.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Humiliation is the worst outcome for both parties in a fight. The personal satisfaction of dragging someone thought the mud doesn’t last long. You’re creating an enemy, and the other side is building a lookout for a personal vendetta.
Find another way to triumph.
3. Money is more important than most people give it credit, but power is the default currency.
Money is an easy way to realize power.
Power is the real currency in every transaction and interaction. You buy a car or a house with money, but you can’t move mountains and change the world. Cash offers a limited supply of power. …
From China to England — the pandemic in review.
London is the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Just how do I manage to choose all the wrong places?
My year started in China.
The end.
Job security truly is a myth.
We’re all left to our devices in the damning cosmic destiny of things.
My perception of reality, security, politics, media, and the human condition have changed in a bizarre twist of fate. Long-haul travel will strike you to your bones and leave all your beliefs exposed.
From overreaction to denial together with 46 snippets from the pandemic year — discover how reality changes from place to place.
Dec 30th, Shanghai — the rush.
Eva and I are boarding Shanghai’s Maglev, the fastest train in the world. Masks are standard in the pre-pandemic world too. …
Black Wednesday is a dark day in British History.
When a pipe bomb arrived at George Soros's suburban home in NYC, and the Authoritarian Hungarian Government shut his college in 2018, the world again remembered the name of one of the most prized currency traders in history.
Democratic donor on the left, and a globalist boogyman on the right, George Soros is an interesting persona we don’t really know much about.
We do, however, know what he has done during his career as an investor and why he’s so famous today, even beyond the right-wing propaganda of globalist conspiracies. Soros’s infamy takes place soon after a single event.
September 16th, 1992 is known as Black Wednesday in the UK, but among Forex traders, it’s the day George Soros Broke the Bank of England. …
Weekly Progress Report
Writing for the eyes and ears.
Tuesday report is a weekly roundup of significant improvements, future milestones, and fresh ideas.
What’s good with the orange megaphone:
- The future of content.
- Voice apps and smart devices.
The state of concise content
The top-performing articles are 5,700 words on average, according to SEMrush.
Skyscraper stories averaging over 3,000 words are more likely to find their way to the top of search engine results and subsequently enjoy 3x more social shares. However, the internet was not always in this state. When Seth Godin, a marketing prodigy, published his first blog in 2002, the short-form content was king.
Seth’s first post, Boring, is barely 108 words long. Seth continued publishing daily, building one of the most popular short-form blogs on the Internet. …
Learn how writers make money online
Digital marketing is in the top three most in-demand skills today, according to Google.
Fortunately, we’re living in wonderful times where the bar of entry to learning any expertise is almost nonexistent. If you have a computer and an internet connection, you can learn life-changing skills.
Marketing Courses Help Writers Make Money
I went from knowing very little about marketing and thinking it’s just a hyped-up-snake-oil industry to running a micro-digital agency in London in less than a year.
When coronavirus swept the globe, I quit my job at National Geographic China and decided to become a fiction writer. I read rigorously, wrote until I couldn’t feel my fingers anymore, and devoured every bit of available knowledge, often clocking in 100-hour weeks behind the computer screen. …
Weekly Progress Report
House cleaning.
Tuesday report is a weekly roundup of significant improvements, future milestones, and fresh ideas.
What’s good with the orange megaphone:
- House cleaning.
- Writing School.
- Top 30 list updated.
The time is perfect for house cleaning.
Mid-January brings an opportunity to reinforce your goals and oil-up every process that can help get you there.
The past week was all about making sure that features in place work, and that we were on the right track to deliver on the initial promise.
The Top 20 is now Top 30.
We’re refreshing and expanding the Crème de la crème list of best-performing headlines. The primary metrics are simple. …
Unreasonable success is rarely about luck.
Long-Shot is an almost unachievable goal that can change the world, similar to becoming a billionaire, solving climate change, or inventing commercial airplanes.
Long-shot success rarely happens overnight.
“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year — and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
— Tony Robbins.
Choose the right time frame.
One year is usually not enough to build something incredible.
Building a house takes time. Starting a family doesn't happen overnight. And new businesses don’t acquire millions of customers in the first quartal.
People who become presidents, astronauts, and military generals employ an awful lot of discipline — constantly pondering one thing until it works. …
The hottest gigs for 2021.
I’ve earned over $9,000 from Upwork in the past few months.
The stigma around low-paying gigs made me avoid Upwork for years, but then I discovered a thriving freelance community once I joined the platform. Today, I’m glad I’ve taken that leap of faith.
I earned $1,703 in my first month.
The world is rapidly moving to digital space.
Finding a good gig is not impossible If you’re the right freelancer and provide excellent value for your clients. The list of trendiest jobs is somewhat different from a study to study. But you can still get a general picture of how much certain gigs pay.
The 15 most popular jobs for 2021, according to FlexJobs and CNBC.
- Systems Engineers: ~$30/hr.
- Accountants: ~$25/hr. …
Weekly Progress Report
Year to Come.
Tuesday report is a weekly roundup of significant improvements, future milestones, and fresh ideas.
What’s up with the orange megaphone:
- Happy New Year.
- The new slogan.
- The numbers and stats.
The new year, new me mindset.
We wish a happy new start and a wonderful year to all our writers and readers!
2020 has placed the bar so low, that 2021 has to be the best year of this new decade. We’re happy for every writer and reader that we have the pleasure to work with, being that for only a 2-minute read, or a whole year from start to finish.
Thank you!
The new year, new slogan.
We’re kickstarting the year with one more mantra. …
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