What with the 2018 Doomsday Clock Statement | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists clock two minutes to midnight and the continued assault on our minds and senses with a variety of fake news and distraction economy headlines we still have to get up each day, turn up, work, put food on the table and survive in between all the madness.
sure, the world feels more and more like shit in a hand basket each and everyday but if there is one thing about the human race is it sure is resiliant and anyway Mother Nature will takes back what she wants whenever she wants regardless of our involvement.
Only this morning here in the uk the Chancellor of the Exchequer called for new laws and regulations to control cryptocurrency trading while at DAVOS this morning, the place where dudes in suits get together for nice hot chocolate and marshmallows while being waxed down by Nubian Swedish muscle workers (I jest of course) to discuss the world from their own doorstep and how maybe a globalised district 9 situation might serve us better if the globalist elite are to maintain some kind of iron hand.
you probably heard it about already but if not you can read it over on the metro - http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/26/bitcoin-price-plunges-britain-threatens-impose-strict-cryptocurrency-laws-7262222 — it’s interesting as they use the angle of ‘criminal’ when it’s something not completely understood, don’t get too comfortable with your ‘above ground’ cryptos.
I found a part of the blog post very interesting and it speaks volumes at the potential fear and uncoupling of realisation that people are finding ways to self augment their own existences outside of the constraints of a flimsy notion of a financial system controlled by few and used to exploit millions, as if people were in some way just going to continue to put up with it as the very planet around them erodes at their own self regulated gluttony.
‘And possibly, we do need to look at the way we regulate this environment before the amount of outstanding Bitcoin becomes large enough to be systemically important in the global economy. It’s not there yet, but it could get there soon
So don’t get too comfortable about your ‘fat stacks’ of crypto, your wallets, your exchanges, your income, your new living conditions bought about by learning about how to navigate this new world — remember that old, slow moving governments and local authorities would rather tax and regulated than learn and invest and go faster, certain generations like the speed of their world to remain in their own bubble instead of investing in a potential optimised version you are living.
So that’s why I keep on top of my residuals.
I’ve made the statement before, don’t spend money on crypto you can’t afford to lose — I want to add to that today, don’t rely on those crypto streams to always be there, remember your transactions are on a open, public ledger that needs power, servers, people, the network to operate for you to continue on a daily basis — so support your witnesses, support their utopia projects, keep them cranking out work so that the networks can become more fault tolerate because boy, we are gonna need it.
Apart from all the seriousness.. . (billy no fun over here). ….
It’s been a good week this week, had two clients from upwork come back for additional work, I did some video editing and a live video chat to help fix a few obs issues for a streamer that uses facebook live to do a show every week, I’m always interested how the average person uses technology on the web as it helps me with service provision and what courses to make.
January so far has been awesome for my own course residuals, the steemit blockchain quickstart guide for content creators has 14 students which is great for saying it’s only been live for about three weeks and I’ve really not advertised it properly yet (I’m working on that) as you can see from below especially in the last few days.
people have been really eating through the minutes of the video — the course is over four hours long and I get paid in premium minutes not just for this course but also for the other hundred mini courses I have on their as well, people tend to watch some of the other stuff as well.
even thou my minutes are fairly low I’m sure compared to other skillshare trainers you have to remember that this is all residual (apart from the new steemit course of course I did recently) in that I’ve not been working on promotion — three thousands premium minutes is pretty good and it’s probably around $150/200 I can count on each month to cover my internet, fuel and food costs for myself.
Super pumped to have over 4000 students now, 200 positive reviews and the last few days of over 200+ minutes a day, it’s certainly making me want to get that new green screen up and keep on cranking out the videos — it’s a lot to do for one person so if you can work together with someone admin, graphics and engagement then that helps a lot!
most of my courses before this big one were only around thirty minutes per each one and while the volume of the courses and their search ability/seo relevancy is good it’s really the longer courses with more minutes, those that have like 3 to 4 hrs are certainly the way to go, while my udemy is flat the skillshare is doing well — certainly a power tip of anyone doing virtual work if you really want residuals to work for you follow this list of tips.
- pick 2 to 5 platforms, research them, understand their audience and what they expect, match existing quality of content and improve on it
- depending on the platform make your content to suit — what works best, either short or long courses equals percentage of minutes to get paid
- don’t rely on any one platform do not get used to the income, use that income to pay for your connection to the web, improvements, not main bills or anything like that in case of lack of revenue from these services.
- always been thinking of titles for courses — you don’t need to have the course completely fleshed out but I tend to aim for a course between thirty minutes and four hours — I tend to put my courses into blocks so it’s easy to jump in and out as person has time to do.
- always be aware that platforms can shutdown, get bought out or just pivot at the drop of a hat and totally change the way you get paid — I’d say a good shelf life for a web company is about two years, I think the same can be said of most crypto blockchains with steemit being the exception at this point, it’s gonna be a tough year but let’s HODL in there.
Ok, that’s me for now, just wanted to get this post out before I get stuck in and felt inspired before working on these new markdown columns, keep an eye on the daily news people, get hardware wallets, turn your crypto into resources you can use in the real world m’kay? :)
Much love,
T E A M H U M B L E x
ps. - this is right on the money! - http://www.wired.co.uk/article/anne-marie-slaughter-chessboard-web-trump-strategy, make sure you read the right stuff out there.
pinterest epic wins pinboard → brand advocate for nokia, 1000heads, verisign → won vloggie for node666 (san fran 2006) → television for time team history hunters 1999 (burton on trent) → sold me.dm to evan williams in april 2011 → went to phil campbell, alabama to help raise money after tornado ripped up the town (was on sky news, bbc news)→ CNN for sxsw 2013 about austin south by southwest event → video chat with robert scoble from rackspace → music video can you spot me? → won the digital derry contest for 5k euros → crowdfunded digital signage concept called pi street → now living life through digital blockchains.
