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Past editions

🐧 Top 10 Editions in 2024
Personal Growth & Reflections
INSIDE: Readers' Top Choices, Financial Independence, Career Growth, Side Hustles
December 22, 2024
🐧 2024 in Review
Personal Growth & Reflections
INSIDE: Highlights, Lowlights, Learnings
December 15, 2024
🐧 My 2024 Year End Financial Checklist
Money
INSIDE: 5 Items on my EOY Financial Checklist, Downloadable Checklist
December 8, 2024
🐧 The Rise of 10X Workers
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: Traditional vs Portfolio Career, 4 Key Trends Reshaping Work, 5 Strategies for High-Performers to Adapt
December 1, 2024
🐧 How to Write a 2024 Annual Review
Personal Growth & Reflections
INSIDE: Free Notion Template, 6 Essential Questions for Personal Growth, Actionable Insights for 2025
November 24, 2024
🐧 5 Ways to Automate Your Finances
Money
INSIDE: 5-Part Money System, 3 Automation Tools, International Transfers, Investing, Bill Payment, Family Accounts, Business Finance
November 17, 2024
🐧 4 Portfolio Career Paths (+14 Real-World Examples)
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: 14 Real-World Case Studies, Why Portfolio Careers, Benefits & Trade-offs, Which Path is Right For You
November 10, 2024
🐧 Becoming a Fractional CTO | Sergio Pereira
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: Software Engineer to Fractional CTO, Sergio's Monthly Income, Feast-Or-Famine Cycles, How He Finds Clients
November 3, 2024
🐧 Achieving Life Dreams Before Financial Independence
Money
INSIDE: Sailing Enthusiast Buys a Houseboat, Farm Couple Buys Abandoned Property in Rural Japan, Mom Gets Second Home in Italy
October 27, 2024
🐧 When to make a career pivot
Career Growth
INSIDE: Traditional vs Modern Careers, Rate of Learning, Define "Enough", Choose Happiness
October 20, 2024
🐧 How to track your net worth (and nail your life goals)
Money
INSIDE: Ego vs Objectives, 6-Step Process, Funding Life Goals, Our Future Kid's 529 College Funds
October 13, 2024
🐧 The Deferred Life Plan
Career Growth
INSIDE: Small-Town Dreams to Happiness Trap, Hidden Dangers of "I'll Be Happy When...", Practical Steps to Break Free
October 6, 2024
🐧 Q&A on Building a Portfolio Career
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: Solopreneurship, Why Portfolio Careers, Best and Worst Parts, Advice, Money
September 29, 2024
🐧 How I took advantage of 3 arbitrage strategies
Money
INSIDE: Geographic, Time, Skills Arbitrage
September 22, 2024
🐧 5 common mistakes when starting a portfolio career
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: Quitting Your Job, Burning Out, Website Procrastination, Too Many Offers
September 15, 2024
🐧 From Professor to Ali Abdaal's Head of Content | Ines Lee
Career Growth
INSIDE: Teaching at Cambridge to Working on NYT Bestseller, Setback Mental Tactics, Pros & Cons of Creator Economy, Non-Obvious Advice
September 8, 2024
🐧 From Software Engineer to CPG Founder | Josh Wang
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: Career Coaching, High-Protein Indian Food, Managing Biz With Spouse, Earnings $ Before Quitting, Why Personal Branding
September 1, 2024
🐧 How to Negotiate a $10k+ Raise
Career Growth
INSIDE: How I 3x'ed My Income in 5 Years, 10 Negotiation Strategies, Insider Tips
August 25, 2024
🐧 From Side Hustle to Full-Time: How Peter Park Picked a Winning Niche
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: From VC/Corporate to Cross-Border Entrepreneur, Unconventional Niche Selection, Challenges and Victories
August 18, 2024
🐧 From Teacher to Fractional COO | Karina Mikhli
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: Consulting vs Fractional, 3/2/1 Model, Keys to Thriving Fractional Career
August 11, 2024
🐧 How I combine finances with my partner
Money
INSIDE: Yours/Mine/Ours, 3 Models, Rescued by Mercury Personal, Real Couple Data, Readiness Checklist
August 4, 2024
🐧 From Googler to Psychedelics Researcher & Executive Coach | Fayzan Rab
Career Growth
INSIDE: Career Pivots, 80% Happy Vision, Goals vs Experiences, Counterintuitive Approach to Pivots
July 28, 2024
🐧 Remote Side Hustle Launchpad: Lessons Learned
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: 48 Hour Sell Out, Surprising Benefits of Rebates, Student Feedback, Up to 124% Boost in Student Confidence
July 21, 2024
🐧 When I decided to quit my job & start my portfolio career
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: Margin of Safety, 8-Question Readiness Checklist, 1-2 Rule, Case Study, Runway Calculator
July 14, 2024
🐧 My $100k Side Hustle Journey
Portfolio Careers & Entrepreneurship
INSIDE: 5 Side Hustles, Tea E-Commerce, Career Coaching, Product Consulting, & 4 Lessons Learned From Successes and Failures
July 7, 2024

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