EDGE OF DAVID

College or Trade School - What To Do?

My dad worked for a municipality as a laborer and then as a skilled laborer. He put in 28 years and retired with $4K per month pension for the rest of his life plus social security. He did not go to college and for most of his life was pretty

Money

Gemini Credit Card + The Voyager Debit Card: A Match Made In Heaven?

The Gemini credit card is finally available. With it you can get 3% back on dinning, 2% on groceries and 1% on everything else. Overall I'm excited to get this card because I'm currently using Blockfi's 1.5% credit card as my "everything else" payment option. I've personally noticed that

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Best Books for Men - My Essential Reading List

Updated April 2022. Reading is a valuable habit to develop so here are some excellent books for men to get you started. If you've had enough of watching the same repetitive content on YouTube, guess what? Books and audio books are thing you should totally give them a chance. I

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How I Make Money Online - Become a Wealthy Expat Instead of a Peasant English Teacher

First off, I got my start as an English teacher in Thailand so I don't mean to disparage English teaching. It changed my life forever and for that I'm thankful. However, I've seen too many men get stuck as English teachers in Thailand and elsewhere. They quickly go from being

Travel & Expat Life

How to Get to Thai Immigration in Bangkok

So you're planning on staying in Thailand for a few months or up to a year? Maybe you're wanting to get an education visa, perhaps you're simply wanting to extend your tourist visa or are in the process of becoming an English teacher in Thailand. One thing is for certain,

Emotional Baggage / Stuff / Whatever

You know, I was thinking just a second ago as I laid in the dark trying to sleep for the fifth time in a row at 3:33 am and this thought occurred to me, a persistent thought, the kind of thought that just demands to be written down. The

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Dream Killer - Doing What You're Supposed to Do

I’ve wasted a lot of time in my life doing what I'm supposed to do. * I went to college because that’s what you're supposed to do. * I got a job to sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day because that's what you're supposed to do. * I

Money

Don't Use PayPal For Crypto - Yet

You can buy crypto currencies with your PayPal balance. I'm the proud owner of one whole LTC. Do I recommend doing this? No. Actually, let me be more clear, HELL NO. The issue is that your crypto is stuck on PayPal. You have no way to transfer it to a

Toxic Self Help - The Recluse of the Untalented

10 years. 10 years I've been watching this guy waste his life [https://daveursillo.com/] on his personal development blog. Starting when he was 24 to now 34. It's a real tragedy: "I help emergent creatives, leaders and change makers refine and align their authentic story through self knowledge techniques

Tools & Gear

Movie Studio 18 Bait and Switch - Upgrade to Vegas 19 Instead

So Movie Studio 18 came out and it's a train wreak. As I mentioned previously, I upgraded to Movie Studio 17 [https://www.edgeofdavid.com/movie-studio-17/] from 14 and it was a massive upgrade. With the new version of 17 you got: * A fully capable video editor for a one

Travel & Expat Life

8 Reasons Why Connecticut Sucks

I was watching this YouTube video of Joe Rogan talking about why Connecticut sucks and I nearly spit my coffee out all over myself laughing because it was so funny and so spot on (but obviously over the top). "CT sucks" and "Connecticut sucks" are pretty popular search terms because

Money

Inflation is Theft. Don't Like It? Do This Instead

Inflation is theft. You'll hear that a lot and some think it's just a hyperbolic statement but it's a very true statement about our current money system. Now let me clear inflation can occur because of supply and demand. That's obviously not theft, but inflation does happen because of governments

Life Advice

Being an Entrepreneur is "Hard"

I constantly read posts about how tough it is and how much you have to sacrifice as an entrepreneur (aka Gary V - or 1DV as in one dimensional as I call him). This is so silly and it's often bastardized by 2o year old, wanna-be pretend entrepreneurs  who spend

Life Advice

Ever wonder why some people are doing better than you?

They have better everything. Better lives, better relationships, more travel, more money, more sex, fun and happiness all the while your life sucks. Ever really wonder what they are doing differently? You should because success is predictable and you can create it it for yourself. We tend to give too

Travel & Expat Life

The Ha Giang Loop Vietnam - Yep It's Really That Incredible

Ha Giang is a stunningly beautiful, northern most province in Vietnam where you can find the boarder with China. It used to be quite a dangerous drive through the mountains, but over the last 5 years it has developed into one of the most beautiful, scenic motorcycle adventures I've done

No, the Canon SL3 is Not a Good Vlogging Camera

The Canon SL3 [https://amzn.to/2MCWtdu]is an excellent camera for creating tutorials, online course creation for Skillshare or Teachable and making any sort of talking head video. It's also a good camera for stills, nothing to write home about but it can get the job done in the

Tools & Gear

The Edge of David "Shorts" Experiment - I'm Shadow Banned?

Alright so I decided to try out YouTube shorts [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/shorts]. They are simply 1 minute or less videos you post to YouTube. Simply record your video in portrait mode and upload it. Then wait for the shorts algorithm to pick it up. You can use

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The Homeless States of America

The following was not written by me. It's a comment by Alvan Karpas [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYMbUIf48lDyRrqFmqD95LQ/videos]on Nick Johnson's video: "The 10 States Where Homelessness is Out of Control and Beyond Repair." I found it insightful so I wanted to repost it here. Okay boss, you

Money

How to Invest Money - The Monetary Ranks

Welcome to your free crash course on how to invest your money. This guide is going to cover everything you need to know as a total beginner. It starts off with assuming you're in debt and goes through what to consider doing as you start to make money and build

Life Advice

How to Look Back on Your Life and Know it was not Wasted

I remember listening to this monologue on happiness by Ben Stein. Why are some happy and other not? Why are some living in a default state of joy and others wishing “if only”. The answer was brilliantly simple. The ones that are unhappy are people who let their parents or

Money

Why it Took 3 Months for Me to Become a WIX Affiliate

So a lot of you know that I'm an affiliate marketer. I run two websites in totally different niches. My most public website is Website Creative Pro where I'm the face of that brand. I produce tutorial videos on how to create a website, domain names as well as website

The Best Vlogging Camera Ever - The Sony X3000

So you want to start vlogging about your incredibly exciting (or boring) life? You'll need a camera for that. The best vlogs are engaging, tell a story and have an interesting perspective. More important than the video quality is the actual story. Sure, if you’re an aspiring film maker

Tools & Gear

iPhone Mini: Hey Dorks, Not Everyone Want's a Giant Phone

Every single tech reviewer for phones assumes everyone wants some giant phone with 8 cameras to play videos games on or whatever. It's quite annoying as there is a large audience of guys like me who want a good, small phone. So I bought an iPhone 8 in 2020 back

Yea, You Should Upgrade to Movie Studio 17 - Here's Why

Update: Movie Studio 18 has been released and it's a train wreak. I suggest upgrading to Vegas Pro. Read here to learn what happened. It was the second video editing software I purchased after using some random program call Trac Axe PC. I got the platinum edition and I really

Life Advice

8 Ways You Can Focus on the Important

Identify four areas of your life that are important to you. For most of use the most important things can be compressed into family, work, health and _____? The last will be unique to you, for me it's travel. I find that in your select priorities to have only one be