The Faith That Powers You Through The U.S. Stock Market Crashes — To many people, this bear market in 2022 is the first experience in their lifetime. Nasdaq is down 28% from the all-time high. The S&P 500 is down 18%. Especially for the people who have become financially independent and retired early (FIRE) based on the 4% withdrawal rate rule, it…

Unlocking the Secret Access to My Audience — Gumroad has all the tools creators need to sell their products, except one thing: find your early customers. Creators have to go out and market themselves. I was very shy in the beginning, but have learned a ton since then. Here are ways I find my customers. Building an Audience on Twitter Awareness is at…

One year ago, I was joking on Twitter that moving to Texas was such a 2021 thing in California. Back then, I was not so convinced that I would be one day jumping on the bandwagon of the California Exodus. One year later, we just bought a house in…

How To Make Writing a Book Less Intimidating — Have you ever started writing and never finished a book? All the enthusiasm just slips away after day 3. An aborted effort makes you never again want to think about the possibility of writing a book. Writing a book can be an intimidating project. Not every prolific author had all…

So, you want to keep a log of your Twitter follower growth, right? There are many ways to do it: Check every day and record Use 3rd party software Use Twitter Analysis to get recent weekly follower growth Request Twitter API access and set up a cron job to call…

Practical Ways to Market Yourself on LinkedIn — LinkedIn is a recruiting market: recruiters and hiring managers are looking for the best people on LinkedIn days in and days out. LinkedIn is a connection hub: businesses are forging future customers and interesting partnerships in this network. Your profile is the representation of your business. LinkedIn is where you…

A Deep Dive in Public and Private Companies, But Explained in Layman’s Terms — After hearing so many high-paying tech workers hold dear to their RSU shares through the exuberant 2020 and 2021 stock market until now when the share prices have been chopped in half and chopped again, I was shocked. I realized two things: 1) financial literacy has little to do with…

I’m not a farmer or a gardener. I’m an engineer with an enormous amount of curiosity in business, who happens to be a plant lover. 3 years ago I stumbled upon a kind of plant called succulent — drought-resistant with fleshy leaves. Growing plants was first a good distraction from…

Understanding Finance and Exploring Creatorship — It is that time of the year — my annual book review time! I published a Medium story last year — The Books I Read In 2020. My original plan was to document what I read and what I learned from those books. Surprisingly, many readers loved it. I’m sharing…