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Passive income

active income is bs and jobs are bs and if theres a system i can learn and use to my advantage, provided i dont fuck over other people, then fuck yea im going to learn it and use it. Ive known since i was a child that the idea of selling a third of ur life to survive is stupid and that i wanted to reach a point where the income that came from preestablished sources would overcome the amount of expenses for the same period of time. Aka, ‘escaping the rat race’ :/. my spite for the term and for the topic aside, i promised myself to start early, and like everything i should do and i make promises to myself about, im Still at square fucking 0. Today im gonna talk about that. Bc its a pain to handwrite about and i still havent established a better way to type stuff to myself online, so fuck it, this tumblr it is.

Im going to classify the types of passive income, or rather, its sources, into 2 categories: A) The kind that take large amounts of time, rather than money. This would account for stuff like content creation, where, materials/resources aside, it takes time and effort to create content and market it, but afterwards, it keeps generating passive income. B) The kind that takes large amounts of money, rather than time. This doesn’t mean you *spend* money to create. Unlike time, which cant be taken back, and can only be lost permanently, money can be withdrawn back. Not only that, but, its not so much that you spend money to make money, but rather that youre putting your money *on hold*, and generating an extra income at the cost of not having those funds immediately available on your person. These still require time to come into effect, in the sense that you are to wait for periods of time until you can recieve the bonus yields, but dont require you to spend (a lot of) time and effort into activating these sources of passive income. Instead, you’re required to have large sums of money to put down, as the yield is calculated as a percentage of those funds. Now guess what; Im fucking broke, i have no money to do B). But also, im terrible at making and marketing content, so A) is not super dandy-looking either. Still, I plan on doing some of both, somehow. I am realistic enough to understand i need active income, at least to get the ball rolling. Heck, just to survive even. But i do need a great source of initial income to 1) gtfo of here, and 2) Start making $ passively, and increasing that amount slowly. I plan on not really staying still, at least for the foreseeable future, so my sources, passive and active, must be things i can do remotely, as a digital nomad.

My active income plan mainly consists on getting some initial dependency job somehow, if possible, and meanwhile, to start taking freelancing jobs, be it data entry, translation, product testing(website/app) or whatever im deemed able to do. Eventually, this would allow me to just fly the fuck off and keep working and making enough money to not die. My strategy, predictably, will put a heavy emphasis on spending as little money as possible, extensively researching ways to make things cheaper or to get money back. That way the amount of funding that can be invested is larger. If i can leave this place and couch surf a bunch at friends’ houses all over, even better tbh. As for passive income, since active social media content creation is off the table, im mainly going to focus on the B) category, finding ways to make every penny i hold attract more of its kind, while making everything else cheaper along the way. For this, im relying on a couple things: - High yield FCIs or similar financial objects where the idea is to lend your money and get a little extra at the end of the time period. - Automated trading; both as in copytrading, but also on developing a stable strategy for unstable financial objects, and then simply scripting the strategy into code, so it’ll be performed 24/7. These strategies Must be always profitable, or else i risk losing everything to a stupid bot i coded myself. - Holding my funds (the more, uh, liquid kind) in staking accounts and other similar virtual that reward you for holding money through their platform. - Lastly, I do plan on building things if possible, and figuring some way to make it available but also making an income out of it. I’ve always wanted to make a couple android apps, maybe write some stupid ebook or whatever. Moreover, I’m sure with enough research i can find ways to code things up that automate stuff that make a little money on the side. Or at least code things that make my job easier during ‘active’ work. Automate website testing, Automate data entry, etc. We’ll see. Rn im looking into tutorials for python+selenium, and trying to learn how to use Binance’s API. The idea is to automate the trading strategy so i no longer have to manually do the same thing over and over, since it really only works if you can constantly do it, and thats a bot’s job, not a sleeping, eating, living human’s. The strategy itself is fairly straight forward. It relies on cryptocurrency and other assets’ high volatility. Because their value range is constantly moving up and down to no end, their prices might stay the same overnight, or even rise by the thousands, but within that same day the price might have risen and dropped by 10% before ending in the same place it began. The idea is to simply put buy and sell limit orders at 0.5% amounts away of the market price. When it drops .5%, it buys a certain amount. When it rises 1% from that point, it triggers the second order, and sells the amount it just bought. Conversely, if it rises first and drops later, it simply sells and buys the same amount, the only thing that changes is the extra profit will be in the secondary currency. Since the difference in the orders is in a 1% total price, that means that, excluding fees, the profit is 1% of whatever money you put down for both orders. That is to say, If you want to make 1 dolar, you need $200, and to place 100 to buy, and 100 to sell. So really, you’re making .5% of whatever amount you put down. With leverage tools though, I could expand this percentage, but for that i want to do proper, extensive research on how it works, let alone learn how to automate it too. The point is, because the price of certain assets varies *so much* and So *Often*, these things that make it worthless and unstable for most functions make it great for this type of trading. Note that i dont need to predict a spike or a surge or drop or anything like that. I predict nothing, all i expect, is that the price keeps ranging up and down the way it always does. And if it doesnt, say, if it only goes up and doesnt ever revisit the buy order, then i dont *lose* anything. All i have to do is cancel that order, and start again at the current price.There’d be a little loss between what i payed to buy last, and what i’ll pay to sell this time, but its unsubstantial compared to the amount of times it worked fine and the amount of money it made in its course. Nowadays, btw, 1% of a bitcoin is about ~$100. Assuming 2 bitcoins worth of funding, youd be making $100 every time both orders are fulfilled, which can be anywhere from once a week to multiple times a day. Exciting, right? If you have $200, then you’d be making $1. This also means that if you have 2 BTC, then every time the whole process gets completed, your profit per full movement increases by $1. Aint that cool. Rn I’m gonna research more on how to work the binance api, as well as learn more about supported crypto exchanges and staking wallets. See ya whenever.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAaa

I just got,,,,, thanked? for trying to calm someone dawn and like, reassure em that the nightmare they saw was just bad nightmare nonsense and nothing real, and i did, and they were happy and moved because i worded it hecka good and they said they felt understood and also that i was a good friend and i havent been this happy in a heckin While! And so now im vibraty and shaky from the good. Which is wild bc like, go back an hour or so and i was super sad because i kinda drove someone away bc i got excited talking about avatar and its politics and i think i just scared them away?? and they went like, “uh, okay. this is weird. and kinda sucks. im gonna go now” and like, yeah theyre totally in their right to do that, but also, i thought we were like, jamming? and talking about the greatest show on earth? but then they said that and i realized what i had done which was just Not SHut The F UP Ever, and just, dump a wordpile on them and scare them away about avatar which is very good show, and i felt super sad! like real sad times sad. And like, rollercoaster? rollercoaster. Life’s more fun when you’re experiencing all extremes, lets fucking go.

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whomstved

“I should write more often”- They said, much like they said the last time, 4 months ago, and the time before that, 2 years ago, and the one before, when they were born, probably.

Your local fool is writing for the sake of putting words places, as they tend to do.

Date is uhhhh 10/10/2019, 8:45 pm,and im hungry and in my pajamas.

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August 30th, 2019

Your pretentious little shitprick is back on the saddle to write some more that no one ever asked for. Yknow, for the ...4th? time? ever???.  I am so bad at this wow.

Anywho, just saw some post telling me to go start a journal or progress in a journal I already started, and you konw how that goes! internet says something you are contractually obligted to fulfill it! haha!! :/.

I don’t remember what i’ve said last entry but I also kinda not care. Last couple months I’ve been trying to workout, mostly for the sake of making myself stick to something and keeping to it, since apparently I can’t hold any routine for over 3 days. It’s been going okay, but lately i’ve started missing days and im not doing enough to recover said lost days, which kinda sucks. Rn it’s the fourth day in a row I haven’t worked out, and I’m feeling kinda miserable about it. While I have the willpower to do so though, i’ll go do it and come back and continue writing. Brb. Back. That was 3 minutes, 37 seconds, aka what I should have done on the 26th. Every day is one second longer than the one before. I’m sticking to elbow planks and side planks, alternating between the odd and even numbers. Once I hit 5 or 6 minutes I’m planning on switching to a different excercise. Possibly jumping jacks, since I can also have that add up 1 a day, or burpees, and have it add up 1 every week, but do it every day. I should also do meditation, since the whole point is to train my willpower to actually get myself to do the things I want to do. Oh well. Oh yeah! turns out?There’s a big chance of me being/having adhd, which is kind of wild. I always figured whatever I did, people with any neurodivergence that affected their focus and attention probably had it much worse, and yet they still went and got things done, which meant I just suck That Much. But no, apparently I might be adhd too, which explains a lot. I swear, if there’s some stupid pill that actually gets me doing things and being productive and shiz im going to be so mad. Grateful, kind of, but mad, because it means that all of these years ive wasted away not being enough and failing them all could have been properly used if I had just known and done something about it. Bleh.

Also autistic. Did I mention that? Slightly more apparent, that one, no one ever had any doubts i wasnt neurotypical, but since my diagnosis was never formally finished, I’ve just been in a kind of limbo about it all.

Lately though, these past couple of...months? (wow time flies), I’ve been going to a therapist, mainly as a way to acess hrt later on, and to deal with some...issues. And, you know, to make myself feel any worth by actually going somewhere and doing something about what I don’t like. It’s easier to take action when you have appointment for it, and all you have to do is show up.

What else, what else? Ever mentioned I’m outright awful at journals? oh yeah, right there, at the very top. Huh. Anywho, I’m trying my hand at the CS50x Introduction to CS course, as a way to actually get coding, which I can’t bring myself to do apparently, and im on the week 2, after like 4-5 weeks, because im awful at actually getting down to doing the things. But what else is new, right?

Honestly, I’m feeling kind of hopeless about a lot of things. I have, what, 90 years? optimistically? in this world, and So Much I want to do, but with my potential, I feel I will get to do none of it, let alone enjoy it. So, kinda dreading life. However... What’s the alternative? Giving up? Doing nothing? Inviting depression? Fuck that. Today I write. Today I excercise, maybe even meditate a bit. I’ll try my hand at that coding excercise, try to be done with the Week 2.

I’ll do it. I’ll do things. Because failing is slightly more attractive to not doing anything and rotting in place. Good luck, me. Wow that feels crappy and  egocentric. “good luck, me”?? what is your problem wow. The world is literally burning away out there, you can’t even escape the confines of your own skull. Sheesh. Also, wow mood swings. Damn.

A n y w a y. I think I’ll cut it short here. Until next time.

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blog entry N° bitch

SO IT SEEMS IM GOING TO WRITE SHIT NOW. Going to blog. Like all the cool kids do. Or used to do. A decade ago. Real slick. Anywho, it’s the 28th of June, of 2019. 11:46 pm. Somewhere in the Land of Pure Air, within the Land of Silver, north of the Land of Fire, east from Nothing, but with nothing at our east. I went to an interview today. I didn’t want to go, I knew i was underqualified and that I was just wasting their time. I didn’t want to go to a massive building of glass and steal to have drones inspect me like grbage and start feeling offended and insulted that I dared pretend I have a place near their presence at all. It wasn’t that bad, but I’m not going to be quoted on that. It was a small place, with few people. I got there terribly late, and somehow still was let in and i did the interview and all.I don’t assume I’ll be called back, I never did. I want to hope, of course. I always do. It’s stupid, and I shouldn’t, and I’m just placing a knife on the steering wheel so that I can hurt myself more at the slightest bump. And YET. I want to be proven wrong about all the shit I say about myself. I want to be proven wrong. I don’t deserver that, But no one can stop me from wanting things. I can only be made feel bad and guilty for wanting things. And Honestly? Outdated. Overdone, Overused.Nothing new, au contraire. I’m sick and tired of feeling guilty, ashamed, for just wanting to be happy. So I try and see things how they are, and then force myself to do things my first instinct would be to disagree with. Power through with spite, if necessary. I don’t deserve to get what I want. I’m petty, i’m greedy. What’s my solution? to actually keep on trying and pretending i don’t care whether i “”deserve”” what I want? whether I should want anything at all?Genius. I’m a fucking moron. Being angsty and whiny at the void. Because what else is new. Point is. I want to be done with being guilty and ashamed. I want to be happy. I want to make friends, to work, to connect, to live. I want to fix problems, find solutions, create betterments for the world. I want to bond with people, and meet new souls out there. I want to get a job and do it at the best of my ability. I want to study and learn. I want to sweat I want to dance I want to run I want to think I want to sleep I want to read I want to eat I want to talk I want to hug I want to cuddle I want to watch I want to learn I want to live.

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Ironically to whatever my previous post was, it is time to type up even more shit that I can look back to 2 years from now and cringe real hard at it. I see this future, and I walk in it’s direction, knowing that im walking into a cliff, into a hard fall, because I am a gigantic moron. I’m the only one allowed to time travel because I’d actually follow the timeline in a way that it would somehow make no paradoxes. And that’s the only reason I actually won’t time travel at all. bastard. Anyway. 

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What kind of bullshit was i even typing up in this pocket hellhole. Imean, I get it? the only point of any of this is to look back at it 2 years later aand go “eeunnngh.”, But also, what the fuck kid. Shut up. SHutup shut up. Past me is a forever bastard. Future me has things better controlled. Present me? we don’t talk about present me.

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Kaizen: The philosophy of evolution through minimal improvements

Who doesn’t want to change their lives for the best? Who doesn’t want to achieve that one state known as success? Most people want to reach their dreams of wealth and health, they dream of an ideal lifestyle and they start wondering how to reach it. 

The problem is they are looking for a secret, a silver bullet, a perfect technique or hidden trick that will flip their lives 180° and allow them to perfectly succeed. No one wants to work out or follow a diet, a magic pill sounds way more alluring doesn’t it? Work is alright, but winning millions through a lottery ticket, and becoming instantly rich.

Of course, things aren’t as easy, magical pills don’t exist, and chances of winning the lottery are almost implausibly slim. Yet we dream. Because dreaming is free, and we can’t think of any better way to achieve our dreams, other than routinely undesirable hard work with relatively low pay off. But sometimes we are blinded by these dreams of easy grandeur, and we forget that change doesn’t necessarily have to be that drastic to be effective. A slower but vital approach to improvement of life, or business, or anything you seek to develop through time, exists. It’s the way of Kaizen. 

I remember the first time I heard of this, I didn’t pay much attention to it. I was sitting through an economics class on high school, and our teacher talked about it, as a method companies use in order to increase their profit margin and productivity.It consists on assessing the whole production process in as little actions and processes and sub-processes, as little and many as possible. From there, point out what process could be somewhat, even if minimally, optimized, and set to better it. Once that process was optimized, move on to the next. Once all that was set for optimization has already been taken care of, reassess the whole production chain and start the process again. Through minimal but constant improvement, instead of big, costly changes, the company would improve daily, without sacrificing much in exchange, and grow as time went by. This of course meant, that given enough time, it would become a business giant, through stable and steady  growth. That being said, business owners aren’t the only ones who can use this.

Kaizen methodology can be equally applied to every day life, because, like business, one’s life can be divided in several minor actions and processes that make up a day, or a week, month or year. In fact, kaizen is even more relevant on on modern everyday life, mostly because of  the improbability of any other way of change.

Think about it. When are you going to spend time changing your life for the better, if by default one third of your day is taken by sleep, a second third is taken by work, and the last third is filled with social relationships, commuting time, family, and many other things that clutter your free time? Let’s be realistic though, even if your free time was actually free, you’d probably spend it on Netflix or such. Which is why, if we want to produce change, it can’t take up too much time of your day, because that’s what we lack the most.

That’s where this philosophy  of gradual but constant improvement kicks in. You won’t notice the change most of the time, it will feel like useless effort, and you’d rather waste your time doing something more attractive like...Netflix. But just because it doesn’t show at first doesn’t mean change isn’t happening. By improving a minimal 1% on whatever you want to improve on, this eventually stacks up, on and on, and with time you’ll be able to look back and see all your progress. 

So, for an example, take physical strength. You could pay up a gym membership, set a 2 months workout plan, go in every 2 days for a full body workout and pray your motivation sticks for long enough for it to become a habit. Of course, this also involves setting aside time for going to the gym, and cancelling whatever other activity you could have been doing in that time. Or, you could just do 5 push-ups when you get off your bed, first thing in the morning. Maybe 5 sit-ups or squats instead, or altogether. Repeat the process tomorrow, but do 6 instead of 5. Tomorrow, 7 instead of 6. It might not seem like much of a difference, and it really isn’t. But you’re actually working out, to the alternative of taking a giant challenge and giving up within days. And it stacks up. Not only are you strengthening your body more and more with these mini work outs, but also the work outs themselves become more and more intense as time goes on, making your rate of improvement greater as well, exponentially so. in a month you’d be doing 35 reps every day, and 65 in two months, first thing in the morning, with little to no effort because the approach allowed your body and mind to get used to this. That is to say, even if the exercise is tougher, it isn’t actually as taxing as it would be if you didn’t reach that point gradually.

Of course, physical exercise is but an example of how this can be applied to everyday life. It can be used with many other disciplines, such as meditation, in which you add up the amount of time every day, until you reach the amount you wish to perform on a daily basis, and maintain it. Or reading, where you gradually increase the amount of time or pages you read, until you reach a rate that allows you to read several books every month. Same thing with writing. 

Every one of these disciplines can be picked out from the active mess of everyday life, and be practiced and focused on individually, for short amounts of time, while improving on it through time. That’s how one steadily evolves.

So choose a skill, or an aspect of life you wish to be much greater at. is it your physique, or maybe your psyche? Do you wish to make a habit out of reading, learn a new language, or practice your coding skills? Maybe learn something new like skateboarding or parkour, or maybe work on some other hobby of yours. The way is similar for everything. Practice on it, a small amount, daily, and both improve and increase your rate of improvement through time, consistently. Once you reached your initial goal, through gradual improvement, keep going at it, keep revamping your skill and habit, and never stop. That’s the way of Kaizen.

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WELL THEN,

Let’s start writing,  shall we?

I just decided to start writing a blog, for myself anyway, it’s not really meant towards any particular audience really. And by “just” I mean... it took me some long time to actually get down to do it tbh. To be honest*. I want to reap all the benefits from...writing. Wow am I lame at explaining myself. THEN AGAIN, that’s exactly what I started doing this for. Hopefully with this, I’ll practice my writing, my vocabulary, my way of expressing myself, etc, etc. Hopefully it will then make me better at all these stuff, and such. 

That’s one of the reasons I’m going to start writing. Another one is because I want to write down all I do, all I achieve, my practices, my developments. Kind of like some sort of staircase to success or something, so I can reread and record my own steps. I might not actually be successful in the end, but hey, I’ll sure be better if I keep trying to make myself better constantly. That’s what I’m looking for in most of life, becoming a better version of myself, every year, month, day and minute. That’s where my url comes from. I want to be better than any past-version of me. 

That’s pretty much what this blog will be about, mostly; A journey through the never ending path of self-improvement.

Other expectations I have for this blog;  >Getting used to writing, and working, for constant times, you know, the way I failed of learning how to do from regular studying and essay-writing, since my school wasn’t very good at teaching you any skill or knowledge for the long run whatsoever. >Who knows, maybe leave some sort of blueprint/manual/travel journal for whoever finds this who also has a similar life philosophy and desired lifestyle, and can get any benefit from my own experience and memories I’ll decide to share here. Kind of like a pool of knowledge; whoever wants to drink and swim from it, may go straight ahead and do so, I’d feel honored and flattered. >Oh yeah, I also want to eventually  just, migrate this whole blog-site-thingy(I really need to stop using the word thingy) to an actual site, with my own domain, out of tumblr, and stuff. Okay yeah maybe I’ll keep the tumblr version, but I still want there to be a non-tumblr version eventually, so I can, idk, be proud of it, and maybe even put it on my resume...I doubt I’ll ever do that though I’d rather not. Having it on an actual site and making that site better through time with little tweaks and upgrades through the wonderful magic of CODING would be just wonderful. I say this, because coding is one of those skills I really want to be great at, Sollux-level, but I’m stuck at Egbert-level, and that sucks. So yeah, anything that allows me to practice and get better is highly welcome.The only reason I’m starting on this hell forsaken site is because it’s...free. And I can manage it from the mobile app. #HandyAsHeck > OH YEAH I ALMOST FORGOT, I do wish to let go of all cuss words, and what I call filler words, like thingy. Hopefully this will help me achieve that.}

Anyway, I’ll eventually start writing(hopefully not too long from now, else I’ll never actually get down to it) the next blog entry, until I make a habit out of it, probably, and start actually blogging like a semi decent human being. Maybe. No guarantees. 

I just decided im gonna tag every post with my url.