The S.W.I.P.E.S. Email

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Edition: Friday, October 27th, 2023​
​A fun email for Friday. I hope you enjoy!​

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At a conference this guy found out if you place a stack of flyers on a table, no one takes them.

…but if you splay them out in circles like this, people keep taking them and they have to replace them every few minutes!

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Wisdom:

“Risk is a type of fuel.”
​- Random phrase I read in the Walter Isaacson Elon Musk biography, visualized with Dall-E3:

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Interesting:

There’s an amazing subreddit called /r/fatFIRE which is full of people trying to be F.I.R.E. (Financially Independent Retire Early)

The "F.I.R.E. Movement" indicates retiring early and living very frugally.

But “FAT-F.I.R.E." means they want to retire early, but in luxury style.

So instead of having a nest egg that pays $50k/year they want it to pay $500k+/year.

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Picture:

I was leaving the house when I got a random delivery on a pallet from my friend @noahkagan. I was leaving the house so I couldn't open it.

Any guesses what it is?? Peloton for scale:

I'll wait for you to try to guess:

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::TIMES UP!::

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It’s a super fancy Toto Japanese toilet!

I have one of these in my master bathroom and it's awesome.

If you've never experienced a full cleaning with a Japanese toilet you're missing out 😏😏😏😏

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Essay:

Whatever "some weirdos" are doing now....versions of "that crazy thing" will be normal in 10 to 20 years:

Year 2000 vs Now: ​
• Organic food is for hippies -vs- Everyone eats organic.
• Weed gets you arrested -vs- Weed sold everywhere.
• Internet is for fringe nerds -vs- The world runs on internet.
• Electric cars were golf carts -vs- Electric cars are best/fastest.
• Flying was for planes -vs- Buy autonomous drones for $200.
• Online dating for losers -vs- Most relationships start online.

In 2003 (20 years ago) around 700 million people were on the internet. Now it’s nearly the entire planet.

Many people in 2003 felt they missed their “big shot” after the Internet Bubble collapsed a few years before that. Turns out most of the money was made after that….

…which industries look like the “First Website” now? AI, AR/VR, crypto, web3?

Maybe it’s industries where the numbers are like:
• 10 million BTC wallets
• 20 million defi users
• 30 million active VR users
• 100,000 people have medical chips implanted in their brains.

…where these numbers go to billion:

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Splurge:

I'm doing an "UpWork Experiment" in our Members Area (**ahem** last chance to grab a monthly sub), and so far from two weeks ago it's made exactly $4,000 (minus $400 in upwork fees):
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• 8 x 1 hour consults
• 8 x 10 minute reviews

To do this I made a "Product" on UpWork like this to accept orders:

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I'm more and more convinced that if someone was industrious and reached out to company gigs for 1 hour a day on UpWork, that could easily be a full time living with freelancing.

I've been documenting this inside our community "Get 100 reviews, 100 clients, and $100,000 on UpWork."​

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I hope you enjoyed these Friday tid-bits!​
​Sincerely,
Neville Medhora

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