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The Blockfi Rewards Card - Why I Stopped Using It

Blockfi from the get-go has always got a lot of criticism from financial YouTubers who were all shilling for the Celsius Network which has since gone bankrupt (oops). Blockfi however is still standing. I've made a decent amount of free Bitcoin from Blockfi as I had at one point $10,

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Modern Women and Dating - The Coming Disaster

I'm writing this from Vietnam, here they have a culture that does not lie to women. Young Vietnamese women who are 27, 28 and still single are pressured to pick a guy, get married and get on with life. The reason is because attractive men who are 30-45 years of

Niche Markets That Are Too Small

I'm not a fan of Gary V. I call him 1DV because he's so 1 dimensional. Work, hustle and enjoy life when you're old I guess? I get it, Gary V is a work-a-holic type character. Nothing wrong with that if that's how you're oriented in the world. However, it's

Travel & Expat Life

How To Apply For a Re-Entry Permit in Thailand

Thailand currently offers multiple entry visas and single entry visas. Multiple entry means you can leave an re-enter the Kingdom as many times as you like. A single entry visa means that once you leave, your current visa will expire and you'll need to apply for a new visa all

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Oh Great, Global Hyperinflation

The best investment and thing to own right now in this crazy market is yourself and your business. We have no idea where this is going. However most can guarantee that if you aggressively work on yourself and your business, your going to be worth a lot more when times

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How to Make Money as a Twitch Streamer -With Jay Streazy

I meet Jay back when I was in Vietnam. I was at a bar in Da Nang with my then girlfriend and I just happened to sit down at a table across from him and his girlfriend. He recognized me and said hello. He had sent me a message previously

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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

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Gemini Credit Card + Voyager Debit Card: The Potential That Never Was

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

Life Advice

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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