How to Make Over $10k/Month Online as a Freelancer With Shreya Pattar
Timestamps 0:00 Intro0:48 Shreya Introduction2:50 How did Shreya start on LinkedIn4:25 How to go from a viral post to a content creation agency8:05 The First Service offerings from Shreya9:16 What to look for in a potential employee13:15 What skills to pursue to earn online17:25 How do you learn writing22:55 How...
July 19, 2022
Harsh Strongman
How to Prepare for a Recession (9 Tips From a Businessman)
Subj: How to thrive during a recession and prolonged high inflation (Prepare for a recession)From the desk of Harsh Strongman For those of you new to this website, I’m Harsh Strongman. I’m a self-taught computer scientist, entrepreneur, chartered accountant, blah blah blah. I own: 1) Life Math Money, the #1...
February 18, 2022
Harsh Strongman
Buy 1 Bitcoin While You Still Can
This will be the most important article you read all year. Fiat currencies are going to zero and it’s only a matter of time till we do almost all of commerce in the world through cryptocurrencies. People think this will take a few lifetimes, but they are dead wrong. The...
July 9, 2021
Harsh Strongman
How to Protect Yourself as a Man in a Divorce (by a Lawyer)
This is a guest post by Amish Aggarwala, Central Government Counsel and Disputes Lawyer at the Supreme Court of India. Subj: Steps you can take before and after marriage to protect yourself and your assets in the event of a divorce. I am deeply honored to write this guest post...
April 6, 2021
Harsh Strongman
Advice to Broke Third World Student with Financial Problems
I received an email question from a reader who finds himself in a tight financial situation because of the pandemic. “Hey, first of all I want to say your articles have been a real eye opener and truly valuable. Thanks for sharing them. However, I am mailing you to ask...
March 23, 2021
Harsh Strongman
The History and Evolution of Money
“In the beginning, God created the bank and the money. And the bank was without money, and bailed out; and darkness was upon the face of the taxpayer.” – Genesis 1:1 Just kidding. The evolution of modern money is a long and interesting one and took place over tens of...
October 21, 2019
Harsh Strongman
The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin
The Way to Wealth is an essay written in 1758 by Benjamin Franklin. I’ve read and reread this essay multiple times, and I’ve always found it a useful reminder of the basic principles of a good life. The essay is freely available in the public domain, and therefore I’m sharing...
October 16, 2019
Harsh Strongman
Types of Sources of Income: A Broad Overview
From the desk of Harsh Strongman Subj: Types of Income Streams No matter how poor a person is, nobody likes the idea of selling time for money. Still, most people’s only source of income is them selling their time in exchange for an hourly or fixed salary. This prevalence of...
September 18, 2019
Harsh Strongman
Why You Should Have 1 Year of Expenses in Savings
At all times, you must strive to have at least one year worth of essential expenses saved up. Before we get to the why part of it, let’s first compute what the number is – you will need a paper and a pen (or an excel sheet or whatever). Figure...
July 3, 2019
Harsh Strongman
How to Make Money Online (Overview with Case Study) [Updated 2020]
In the previous article, we talked about why you should start an online business. In this article, we’ll discuss a rather hot topic: how to make money online. This article is divided into three parts: 1) The Offer 2) The Traffic and 3) Useful Business Tools. To make the article...
June 26, 2019
Harsh Strongman
Why You Should Start an Online Business
If you want to get rich, you have to start a business. A job will never make you rich, and even the best jobs leave you well off, not rich. When you work a job, you’re working to make someone else rich, and they’re giving you a (very) small piece...
February 28, 2019
Harsh Strongman
Personal Budget Guide (With Template)
It surprises me that so many people do not know what their expenses are – it’s almost insane. If you do not know how much you make, and how much you spend, you’re living in a world of financial darkness. You can keep walking, but eventually you’ll run into a...
January 23, 2019
Harsh Strongman
How to Start a Side Business (LMM Podcast #1)
This one is going to be a podcast. This was my first time using the (rather low-quality) mic equipment so there were some sound quality issues – so please bear with me here! Below is what I discussed in the podcast (and then some) for those who prefer a text-based...
January 6, 2019
Harsh Strongman
A Definitive Guide to Getting Out of Debt
Ah, debt aka modern-day slave chains. Well, I believe you already know that taking on consumer debt – student loans and especially credit card debt – does not make sense in most cases. The thumb rule I use is “borrow to produce, not to consume.” But, let’s say by the...
September 21, 2018
Harsh Strongman
4 Rules for Picking Stocks for a Long-Term Equity Portfolio
Here are some simple heuristics to follow when investing the equities portion of your portfolio: 1. Not more than 5% in one stock and no more than 20% in one industry This is fairly obvious – Diversification. The higher the diversification, the lower the non-systematic risk. Diversification makes your portfolio...
August 30, 2018
Harsh Strongman
How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky By Naval Ravikant (An analysis)
Naval Ravikant, recently sent out a series of very insightful tweets titled “How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)” and elaborated on the topic with a periscope video. This article gives you my take on the tweets, tweet by tweet. (I’ve changed the order of the tweets to help the...
June 9, 2018
Harsh Strongman
The Power of Compound Interest
From the desk of Harsh Strongman Subj: The Power and Math of Compounding This article is about the greatest force known to man: Compound Interest. Simply put – compound interest means that returns accrue on principal as well as previous returns. This sounds like a very minor detail – but as you’ll...
June 3, 2018
Harsh Strongman
The Most Effective Money Advice You’ll Ever Get
The age-old and most effective money advice you can ever take is: KEEP TO YOURSELF 20% OF ALL YOU EARN In other words, save 20% of all your receipts. Sounds pretty basic, but you’ll be surprised how few people actually follow this. I’ve seen people who make more than $1 Million...
May 29, 2018
Harsh Strongman
Is College Worth The time and Money? Here’s How You Can Calculate That.
I’m talking about the handcuffs and leashes of the modern day: student loans. Student loans are not inherently evil (even though it is commonly thought so). The question of whether you should accept a student loan or not depends on what you are going to be studying, and what the...
May 17, 2018
Harsh Strongman
Regret Is a Wasted Emotion
There’s a concept in economics called sunk cost. From Wikipedia: “In economics and business decision-making, a sunk cost is a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered.” This applies to life as well. Have you ever seen someone being sad and depressed over something bad that happened...