Rich in Personality: Exploring the Traits of the Wealthy by rus I subscribe to Chamath Palihapitiya’s Substack What I Read This Week, it’s a weekly dose of a dozen or so interesting links, often related, that he recommends. This week’s newsletter featured a paper published in the British Journal of Psychology titled The rich are different: Unravelling the perceived and self-reported personality profiles of high-net-worth individuals. […]
Why I Bought A Rolex Starbucks by rus Last year I bought a brand new, Rolex Starbucks. i dont know if you guys have seen the meme of all the gurus saying everyone in america would make it if they just stopped buying starbucks coffee? Moguls like Kevin O’Leary can be very judgemental about people’s coffee habits. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/04/kevin-oleary-wont-pay-2-point-50-for-coffee-instead-he-invests-it.html Medical schools are advising students […]
HodlBot Review by rus HodlBot is a self managed crypto index fund. Essentially it maintains a portfolio for you that tracks the top performing crypto projects based on your requirements. In November 2020 I deposited $250 into a crypto exchange and configured HodlBot to manage it using a HODL 10 Index strategy and in the 4 months since the […]
My Amazon Seller Stack: 23 Tools of the Trade by rus Software and services to power your Amazon business. I’ve been selling on Amazon since 2014 and over the years the strategies, services and tools I used have evolved just as much as the Amazon landscape has evolved. There are now suites of tools dedicated to solving specific problems faced by Amazon sellers but as my […]
The Science Of Amazon Ranking Graphs And Why They Are Important by rus A few people have recently mentioned to me that they don’t understand the usefulness of tools like Amazooka or AMZ Tracker for tracking their products, after all tracking a products BSR or rankings for a particular keyword doesn’t lead to more sales, so I’m going to describe how I use them and why I find […]
Results Of A 4 Wave Zonblast by rus I launched a new product on Amazon recently that had taken a LOOONG time to develop and since day one of conception my plan was always to do a Zonblast with it and see what performance was like. So earlier this month, I did. To give you some context, the new product I’m launching is […]
Diabetes 2: Diabetes Harder by rus Last Friday I had my 2nd visit at the hospital with respect to my diabetes diagnosis, this was for a repeat test and some fasting tests for my cholesterol levels. I’d been measuring my blood sugar levels whilst on the treatment and they’ed normalised pretty quickly meaning that I have type 2 diabetes. The results […]
Being A Digital Nomad With Diabetes by rus One of the reasons I quit my job was because during 2014 I felt ill, a lot. My blood pressure was through the roof and numerous trips to the doctor didn’t really result in any progress. For the past few months I’d get periods of up to a week where I was constantly exhausted, then […]
First Shopify Sale by rus As part of building up a brand with Amazon FBA I have my own e-commerce store in order to build trust with customers that search for our brand name. So far I haven’t done much more than list my various products on it, with sales copy and images taken straight from my Amazon listings. I’ve […]
Profit Per Sale When Selling On Amazon by rus Now I’m back in Chiang Mai it seems that there’s been a huge swing. A lot of the people I met at the Drop Ship Lifestyle event are now looking at selling products on Amazon as their business model of choice and I’ve been fielding a lot of questions. The most common question is by […]
