Backup your files

Backup your files

Psst…if you want to learn more about freedom, click here for more info. =)I read an article once by a woman who had suffered a massive hard drive failure. She lost all her data, and felt heartbroken. The worst thing, she said, was losing her mother. Her mother had died, but the hard drive contained [...]

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Advice from the Experts: Guides I Recommend

Advice from the Experts: Guides I Recommend

In my quest to be free I’ve spent a lot of time researching on the internet. Unsurprisingly, the internet is brimming with people with advice on the subjects of dream-following, freedom, minimalism, blogging, and making money online. (Note that making money should never be the end goal. Make just enough to be comfortable while you [...]

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Gaps and Guilt

Gaps and Guilt

It’s like this: It’s been a long time since you got anything done. You’ve got no excuses. What do you do?

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11 random ways to save money

11 random ways to save money

I recently signed up for Help A Repoter Out. The gist of it is that when reporters need quotes or sources of some kind, they can email the HARO people, who forward it along to everyone who signed up to be emailed. One was a request for “penny-pinching tips”. This is my response: Penny-Pinching Tips [...]

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The Short List

The Short List

There’s alot of stuff I want to do. I have trouble listing it all, so here’s a few things from the top of my head. Post to my SuperSonic Freedom blog (in progress. yay!) Leave comments on a dozen other related blogs Post to my The Man In Japan blog Leave comments on a dozen [...]

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Liftoff

Today’s the day. I’m going to Japan. I’ll be there for 6 months of study abroad, and then comes the end of college. You can read more on my other blog. Hopefully this won’t interrupt my blogging etc. too much. For now, consider this post as a profile in following your dreams.

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Not quite ready

In just four days, I’ll be boarding a plane and flying to Japan. This isn’t a vacation, either. It’s six months of study abroad for my last semester of college. And then, I think I’ll just live in Japan for awhile. It’s been a long time coming. I got into anime during high school, then [...]

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How to give things to strangers in public

A while ago I posted Have less stuff. I’ve been getting rid of a lot of possessions in preparation for my semester in Japan. In particular, I discovered that I have a lot of books lying around that I have no intention of reading. Most of them I’ve read already, and they were good, but [...]

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Intro to Passive Income

Intro to Passive Income

Today, I’ll be having another conversation with Mr. Italics. Hello, Mr. Italics. Hello. Do you like money? Yes. Do you like work? Not really, no. Would you like to earn money without working very much? That would be great. Well, I know a way to do that. Let me guess: winning the lottery, right? Or [...]

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Use Firefox (or maybe Chrome)

Use Firefox (or maybe Chrome)

First, a message for people who don’t know much about computers (those who know a little can skip this part, and those who know a lot can skip this post altogether): A “browser” is a computer program that you use to access the internet. If you’re viewing this webpage, you’re using a browser. Look at [...]

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