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What do you mean by real chicken? What are McNuggets made of in the US? I saw Americans amazed at Europe’s “real cheese”, and Coca-Cola with “real sugar”. I have never heard the ex…

Small fish in a big pond? I've heard a completely opposite advice stating that "in a big pond" there's much competition, and dominating a small niche yields better results. What is…

I use https://kanbanflow.com to manage my week. Instead of classic Todo - Doing - Done, my board is divided into Todo - Monday - Tuesday - ... - Sunday - Done. The board contains b…

Being an expat myself, I cannot help but notice that it's often more expensive than being a local, especially in the beginning. Less choice in housing, no family support, being una…

Yeah, most of Europe is barely on par with Canada if not worse.

Check out static website generators like Jekyll ( https://jekyllrb.com ). If that doesn't meet your needs, you can still use the same tools as for a bigger webapp e.g. Node + React…

I used to work for one and was not proud of it because I felt our products did not provide any value. My boss had this theory how betting small amounts of money is just another for…

If you have $5 million reasonably invested, you could pay yourself approximately $200k per year until you die (the average long-term expected return from the stock market is > 4% a…

Except those who die in poverty after a miserable retirement because they haven't prioritized financial wellbeing in their lives.

That's what happens when you entirely rely on one platform as your source of income, be it Freelancer, YouTube, Amazon, or anything else. You become de facto employed by the platfo…

You are right. In my original post I implicitly meant office jobs (software in particular). I kept that assumption implicit because I understood that the article was concerned with…

I think it's connected with the rise of bullshit jobs. If your job is well defined, e.g. make an app or a website design, you can do it anywhere in the world. The app/design is you…

I suppose the idea is to work in SV for a couple years while you're still young and healthy, rack up as much cash as you can while living quite frugally, then move to a cheaper pla…

I've left the center of my live in pursuit of a better job, and even though I earn above average wage, taxes & rent consume a huge chunk of it, because many people here live in sub…