As I’ve mentioned before, I run a large online community. One of the ways that I monetized the community was by becoming an Amazon affiliate and linking products that people discuss in the community to Amazon. I had a script that did this for me,...
Category: Life
What if there was an algorithm for every part of our life?
This is my second post in what I call my “what if” series of posts. I’ve been listening to the audio book Principles by Ray Dalio and in the book he talks about the algorithms his company created to become successful investing in various markets...
What if we could use nanobots to fight disease?
The idea of using nanobots to fight disease is something I’ve thought about for a while. If you’re not sure what a nanobot, it is “a hypothetical, very small, self-propelled machine, especially one that has some degree of autonomy and can reproduce.” Essentially these are...
As I remember 9/11 fifteen years later
As I’m about to go to bed I realize that tomorrow I will wake up and relive a swirl of emotions. 15 years ago I was in San Antonio, Texas. I was staying in a Hilton. At this point I was sleeping, likely with a...
Julie the teacher and thousands of others detained by US Government in just 15 minutes
On July 3oth, 2015, 435 government officials detained Julie Smith, a teacher from Sheboygan, WI and thousands of U.S. citizens in just 15 minutes. Without due process, these U.S. citizens have had their U.S Passports revoked and are not allowed to travel outside of it’s...
How to make a sale | Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff
If you are in sales you have probably read all the great sales books from guys like Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, Jeffrey Gitomer and others like them. You may have even researched sales strategies like SPIN selling and solution based selling. That’s great as they...