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Update on Erin Pavlina, and why I disagree with what she does so much | AndrewLynch.net

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Update on Erin Pavlina, and why I disagree with what she does so much. I thought I should do another post about Erin Pavlina. Because the earlier post I wrote about her. Was a little stream-of-consciousness, but despite that it’s the third result in google for a search for “Erin Pavlina”, so I feel I should justify my comments a little. (It also annoys me that my blog is higher in a google search for her name than for mine, but whatever). And you’ll get a weekly email of all the best stuff I find. Becaus...

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June | 2014 | AndrewLynch.net

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Monthly Archives: June 2014. Happiness: we don’t know what it means, how to measure it, or how to reach it, but we know extremely well how to avoid unhappiness. 8211; Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes. I’ve so unhappy at certain times in my life that I’ve had to cry myself to sleep. I got out of it by cutting the harmful out of my life. This is such a powerful principle that you can apply to a lot of different areas: avoiding consumer debt, avoiding ignorance. Avoiding things like cigarettes and drugs.

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May | 2014 | AndrewLynch.net

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Monthly Archives: May 2014. A lesson on the power of incentives. As an Econ grad I love stories like this. That’s from The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King. By Rich Cohen. Fantastic book. Never forget the power of incentives. There’s a reason that Warren Buffett himself. Puts together the incentive schemes for Berkshire Hathaway managers – it’s hugely important and he doesn’t trust anyone else to do it. Want to change your life in six months? May 20, 2014. It’s t...

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March | 2015 | AndrewLynch.net

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Monthly Archives: March 2015. How to make money blogging. That’s right, “blogging” is a career these, so much so that popular personal finance blogger Mr Money Mustache put it on his list of 50 jobs that pay over $50,000 per year. Maybe you’ve decided that you want to get in on this gold rush. Who can blame you? It’s the 21st century, everyone’s making money online! I expect to retire around 9126 AD – maybe a decade sooner if my investments perform well. So what can you do instead? Here’s an idea: ...

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September | 2014 | AndrewLynch.net

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Monthly Archives: September 2014. Cutting your own path. A friend of mine at work was talking about starting his own company. Understand, I work at an old, conservative, very corporate company. He mentioned this idea, this risky play, which could end up making him a ton of money. This other girl heard him talking about it and said “Why would you want to do that? You’ve got a good, safe job here where you could be really successful.”. His reply was fantastic. Want to change your life in six months? 1) mai...

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March | 2012 | AndrewLynch.net

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Monthly Archives: March 2012. The only 3 things you ever need to know about marketing. Marketing is about knowing what you want to tell and who you want to tell it to and doing it only in the most captivating and honest way possible. That’s from an interview with Ryan Holiday. Director of Marketing at American Apparel. He’s one of the smartest, most hard-working guys around, and when he talks, we should all listen. Read the whole interview here. Want to change your life in six months? March 1, 2012.

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January | 2015 | AndrewLynch.net

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Monthly Archives: January 2015. How to land a job you love. Most people are delusional about their own abilities. If you apply for a job you really want, and on your covering letter you say anything along the lines of “I don’t have any experience in this field, but this looks like a great opportunity because it’s exactly what I want to do”, then you are a moron. You’re all me, me, me, and not thinking about what you can actually offer. Do you know how you get a job in a field you’re interested in? For mo...

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February | 2015 | AndrewLynch.net

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Monthly Archives: February 2015. A simple mental model for business and finance. This is the simplest mental model in all of business and personal finance. Any business or personal finance issue, and the solution to it, is inevitably contained somewhere in this model. You ready? Profit = Revenue x Margin. Let that sink in for a minute. Every issue your business faces, and everything you hope to accomplish with your own finances, can be tackled with that one equation. Set of solutions. Of course, ther...

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July | 2014 | AndrewLynch.net

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Monthly Archives: July 2014. 1 Simplicity is good. It saves mental power for other things (this is why Obama only wears two colours of suit, to save decision-making effort for more important issues than merely deciding what to wear). 2 Minimalism – a lack of commitments (financial or otherwise) and a lack of possessions – also reduces stress. Books are the exception to this rule. 7 Experimenting and tracking results is crucial to improving anything. 9 Having said that, money is only one of three currenci...

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December | 2013 | AndrewLynch.net

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Monthly Archives: December 2013. What I learnt from two years of online poker. He bragged to us once at school how he had started with $50 on Pokerstars, and ran it up to $3,000, before his parents found out and made him withdraw everything except the initial $50. Then he did it again. And again. I thought to myself, “There has to be a better way to make money than this.” And then I remembered Omar, and his Mac, and his trainers, and the rounds of drinks he would buy for everyone. So ...I devoured forum ...