The articles below are categorized as “general”, which means either I believe they will appeal to most folks or that they don’t fit neatly into one of the other categories I usually write about.
My first online search was, “magic cards.”
The second search was my name.
The results for both? 90% porn. Pre-Google searches were pretty useless…
But today, you can easily find most of what you are looking for. Exception: the occupation of lottery winners. Over the years I’ve tried the name search again, and found some of the more interesting folks that I share a name with.
This post is an homage to name twins, and features several of mine in the order I’ve discovered them.
Let’s get to it…
Twenty years ago I found eBay and sold some stuff on it.
At the time you could sign up to eBay without a credit card, which meant you could easily create multiple accounts and submit fake bids to increase the final sale amount.
If I could email my 12 year old self I’d say, “that’s clever, but you should really optimize for integrity and not $10 gains.”
What a fool…
Since then I’ve spent a lot of time on the internet. I’ve written articles, hosted podcasts, built websites, freelanced, met girlfriends, met platonic-friends, invested in stuff, and sent about 800,000 emails.
I’m an internet expert!
And you are too, so let’s bond over three rules of the internet; observations I’ve found to be mostly true across the web.
I have zero emotional attachment to the lottery. I don’t hope I win, and I don’t feel regret when I lose. For me, buying a lottery ticket is about as interesting as paying a parking ticket; and yet I buy lottery tickets anyway.
Years ago I dated a girl with a Tempur-Pedic mattress.
The relationship was so-so, but the bed was great.
I wanted one of my own, but there were two problems:
Noah Kagan is an entrepreneurial machine.
This article is about the man behind the machine and how he operates day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year to get results like these.