Awesome.

Sats for you

Definitely not. Because AI cannot come up with eccentric, quirky art like Yayoi Kusama or inspirational, tug-at-your-heartstrings films like Hayao Miyazaki

Thank you for asking me! You made me think while I was doing my household chores.

I think differently from Michael Masterson in the sense that if I’m not offering something truly unique into the market, then I’m just not motivated. Why try to be like everyone else? So I came up with the idea of teaching kids essay writing in both English and Mandarin. A bespoke bilingual curriculum, so to speak.

I went as far as to test my ideas out on my friend’s kid. Unfortunately, life got in the way and I stopped because it’s hard to work on the curriculum when I don’t teach Mandarin in my day job haha.

Now my dream is to offer a curated curriculum that teaches kids English and Science at the same time. Example, use passages from the Magic School Bus to teach comprehension strategies and scientific concepts. I will pivot to teach in an elementary school this July. I think this idea will work.

Have you been revising that dreaded paper?

You are right. I think that 25x is for people who aim for FIRE. I plan to work until 65 (because of two young kids), so 10x is sufficient for me haha

It’s less intimidating, too!

Well honestly Singapore is a long way from adopting BTC for most of its public services, so I still need fiat

I can use the Lightning Network to pay my utilities bill, though

I agree with you.

I run those ads in the background while I’m at work. It motivates me to work hard so that I can multitask haha

Yes. And sometimes I post his work here and am sure to keep those sats for him. But I don’t think it has registered in his mind yet

Admittedly I haven’t put as much effort into Bitcoin as I have invested into making sure that he knows how to read various Chinese words. I care about him being Chinese first and a Bitcoiner second. Haha

Happiness Journal 25/1/2025

Attended an ex-colleague’s wedding today and had fun catching up with my ex-colleagues. Vivid memories flooded my mind as I thought back about the times we had spent together. I still remember the first time I went on a recce trip with many of them and got asked, “So are you a civil servant?” Lol.

Needless to say, I also got reminded of my own wedding. I couldn’t have known it back then, but I thank my lucky stars that my missus and I are aligned on many things, without us needing to even engage in discussions. Case in point: interior designer for renovation. I floated the idea of shopping around for interior designers and felt immensely relieved when she agreed that doing so would be too troublesome. So yup, I am lucky to have married well.

Sensei is nothing but thorough 💪

I have had a pretty good month this month. Approaching 4 bucks haha.

Thanks for sharing your e-book writing experience btw. I think I need to solidify my body of work before I look into collating my articles into a book. Maybe I will need another year or two haha

Very detailed. Thanks for putting in the effort.

I have tried Yzer n Simple Bitcoin, but the sats are so negligible that I think intensifying my content creation efforts on SN would be more productive haha

You should try Cointiply. It’s a faucet that pays you decently for doing surveys and watching ads. I shamelessly include my blog link about Cointiply here because I wanna drive traffic to my blog haha.

Seems like you have had an intense exchange

Must be infinitely annoying

Lucky you have us to download these nauseating vibes on

I assume you are a truck driver. What sorts of goods do you deliver?

Let me invest some sats on you.

Be the next Hugh Jackson (if you are not already!)

Oh my goodness you need the comforting feels of sats!

I feel you so much.

I get triggered every semester when I have to change my remarks based on the style of whoever’s in charge. Grrrrr haha

That’s great! I hope you are not feeling half-guilty about taking that nap haha

I will hold you to it. Otherwise I will downzap your next post n let you know!!

Are those revisions constructive feedback or painfully require you to adhere to someone’s preferred linguistic style or perspective?

Funny how a question that will make me cringe big time during a job interview sets me on a contemplative mood haha

Personal - I should have withdrawn $150 from Google Adsense thanks to my tireless efforts on my blog

With wife - We should have released our foot off the pedal and have more time to enjoy each other’s company. Hopefully we will travel more

With children - they would have known their skills and strengths, as well as ways to create value to the world (and rake in sats!)

That’s about it. The rest is just icing.

Are you sure you won’t be more jacked by then? Haha