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The Wealth of Sapiens
Lets talk about wealth. How about some originality and just great content instead of all the bullshit you find online trying to sell you again and again or clickbait you with some disgusting smelly shit…Ok, I feel better.
Take it away Dan…
True wealth is not money. It’s the option to buy what you truly need. If money can’t buy what you need, you’re on even footing with the poorest person out there.
In economics 101 you learn a simple model of happiness: more wealth makes you happier, but by smaller and smaller amounts. The first $10,000 you spend is awesome. The second $10,000 is good too, but not quite as great as the first. And so on.
The most important money we spend is not the Lambo money. It’s avoiding-misery money
Wealth is living in a society where you have the option of spending money on the things you need. The greater the number of options, and the more aligned they are to you needs, the wealthier you are.
The wealth we have all inherited is knowledge and social institutions. It’s taken generations of work, the sacrifice of many, and it’s not a foregone conclusion. We’re lucky we were born when we were.
Wealth is genuinely understanding how the world works, so that we can have a high degree of control over it. So you know what mold to use, when, and why.
Wealth is a society where you can trust complete strangers with your child’s life.
Wealth is having friends, colleagues and family who support you. Who take care of the things you can’t, without hesitation.
The benchmark is “my family and I are alive, safe and fed”. The rest is luxury.
Quincy Jones Has a Story About That
This is one of the WILDEST far out anything goes interviews I ever read! Amazing how this guy keeps going at 84! You can create or you can sit around in the basement somewhere and troll bloggers you don’t like, WTF!
What a life! And what stories he has about, well, everyone!
Read it with your favorite drink!
Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook and the World
Well, you need to read this along with this Twitter thread to really understand how well the Russians phucked us by helping to elect Trump. How they used digital marketing to just stick it to us…I am not sure where all this is going but it is obvious we have a problem here…
The past year has also altered Facebook’s fundamental understanding about whether it’s a publisher or a platform. The company has always answered that question defiantly—platform, platform, platform—for regulatory, financial, and maybe even emotional reasons. But now, gradually, Facebook has evolved. Of course it’s a platform, and always will be. But the company also realizes now that it bears some of the responsibilities that a publisher does: for the care of its readers, and for the care of the truth. You can’t make the world more open and connected if you’re breaking it apart. So what is it: publisher or platform? Facebook seems to have finally recognized that it is quite clearly both.
The Follower Factory
For the record, I have never paid a penny to gain followers. I am guessing The Points Guy Inc. has though….
Yikes, very disturbing…
My name is David Flink, I’m a leader in tech, and I’m an alcoholic
Wow, this guy posted this on Linkedin of all places. I hope he stays sober…
Maybe it can help one of you…
If any of this sounds familiar to you (bonus symptoms: jitters, cold sweats, sober slurring, lapses in your memory), there’s help out there. The NIAAA has some excellent resources, Alcoholics Anonymous has meetings all over the US and Canada (by phone: 212-870-3400) and your company may offer an internal or external support group. Your doctor, therapist and health insurance company will also be able to help, as will friends (this includes your work friends), family and this random dude on LinkedIn.
The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana Embassy
The first time I read about this it made a big impression on me. And I have followed the story. I think a state is up to something. I am thinking the North Koreans or the Russians or the Chinese. Heck, maybe it is the CIA testing a new weapon. I doubt is is the Cubans because I think they have the most to lose…I don’t know! But I sure love a good mystery! I also have an interest in the story as I suffer from tinnitus myself and some of the symptoms they are referring to simply make it sound even more awful…you can not imagine! Or maybe the cicadas are turning mad or something!
What do you think?
Here is a picture I have had for a long time, not sure where I found it. But it was taken in the Greek island of Crete, I remember that!
And I leave you with this…
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Now that was some Valentine’s day’s notice!
Stand with Gurdeep! lol
Gurdeep.
I get it .
Hi George – I wonder if you could tell me if I should apply for this sweet job at OMAAT, seems like a nice gig if you can get 17 or more credit card links in a 150 word post about “How to claim your freeeeeee cookie at Hilton Doubletree hotels with your Amex Aspire credit card…”
What does this pay?
This will also vary, but compensation will fundamentally be a generous revenue share determined by the quality and performance of each post. — Performance = conversions.
I like Lucky but there’s a reason he posted this job on his travel blog instead of in a place where pro writers would see it.
With revenue share blogs, the risk of not being paid is huge because the new writer gets assigned the topics least likely to hit. Where topics are not assigned but rather “claimed,” it’s even worse, because situations develop of people grabbing each other’s stories & keywords because you’re all competing against each other to be the one who gets the clicks/conversions from the same few big stories of the day. I turn down all such jobs and, if asked, advise other writers to do the same.
The opportunity cost is too high right now, when a fast, clued-in writer can earn more for their own brands than perhaps at almost any other time in human history.
Applicants should look at past performers. How did it work out for past writers at OMAAT?
Andrew, Daniel and Tiffany have contributed a few articles per month.
Ford, Mike, Matt, Travis and Nick almost nothing in the last two years.
Past performance suggests that you’ll be dealing with a difficult boss and have limited earning opportunity unless Lucky will be able to distribute some work and control.
Where else would you post the job opening??
I would love to find out the dollars behind the business of writing for blog businesses. But they are not talking. Some even say absurd allegations such as in the X digits lol.
Is Ford still around? If the pay was based on page clicks, he should have done well as his posts seemed to bring a torrent of critical comments howling at his naiveté and sense of entitlement.
Lol….
I stopped reading when I had one too many diet coke pics. Oh, and those wet towels…WTF!
Back to the NBA All Star Game and the amazing defense….said no one ever!
Oh there’s no doubt TPG buys followers.
I didn’t buy any of my 34 Facebook friends btw!
Cool blog!
Cool blog!
So, I am caught up on all the tax returns and thinking to go see the Black Panther movie…
but I do not like Superhero movies…
and there is nothing else worthy to see I have not seen…
decisions, decisions….
Slow day today and I am seeing so many blogs keep coming and trying to convert their readers and I can not help but ponder how freaking early Ingy sold wow!
Pretty good content here today actually. Loved the article about true wealth.