I love this Twitter quote from an increasingly interesting Contrarian Saver Twitter account. It takes some serious mirror-looking, but finding your competitive advantages and harnessing them can be incredibly powerful. In my line of work, being a fast typer can increase efficiencies across a range of tasks and allow me to do more work than others in a shorter period of time. It’s tiny, but it’s important.
Interesting to see this without the Pro Display stand. I guess it works? Also, how do people use a thick mechanical keyboard without a wrist rest? My wrists are killing me after only 20 minutes of typing on a Keychron K3, and that’s an ultra-thin mechanical keyboard.
Beautiful imagery here. Travel photography feels like a thing of the past — a vintage practice only the lucky can partake in today.
This comes at a very, very opportune time for The Newsprint. I’ll have some news shortly. There’s something about “not giving a damn” that makes hitting the publish button so much easier.
Long story short, it’s cheaper over a 40–year career to pay your mortgage with the most tax-efficient earnings and contribute to your RRSP with the least tax-efficient earnings. I may have to discuss this on Toonie in the future.
I really like Marques’s work here. This is a long, long, long iPhone review, but it’s momentous in a number of ways. It’s in-depth. It’s thorough. And most importantly, it’s derived from experience rather than estimation. I’ve reviewed products for years now and it’s always a rush to get them out the door. If Marques has trailblazed something here, it’s the idea of reviewing based on experience instead of estimation. Great, great work by Marques.
This is Kyle Dreger, perhaps at his very best. I find I write with two different voices. The first is the business voice, which is used in emails and professional correspondence at the office. The other is here — some extra verbiage here and there, but mostly active and semi-terse. Even still, I imagine Mr. Dreger views these extra words as fluff. I will continue to work at it.
Lots of smart and prescient tweets in here. I’m especially enamoured with the topic about cash flows vs. appreciation in real estate right now. Residential real estate prices are rocketing to the moon across Canada, but commercial real estate is calmly ticking along with more reasonable valuations. Guess where I think you should look?
Rule #5: Be an interesting person. I think this is the most underrated (or, perhaps, unsaid) factor to the folks behind the biggest audiences in the world. I don’t think there’s room for a boring billion dollar creator. You need to be interesting. You need to be unique. The whole idea that anyone can create a billion dollar audience is false. Not just anyone can do it.
Might take a little while to scroll through this one, but you’ll have fun doing it.