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You gotta spend money to make money
“Gotta spend money to make money” is an annoying axiom in the entrepreneurship world, but it is definitely true. It’s hard to make meaningful profits without investing in the tools and resources you need for your business, and sometimes that means sucking it up when faced with a seemingly pointless cost of business too. Churning…
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Missing the forest for the trees: MS edition
Pictured: A whale with a very heavy wallet who is mildly annoyed, but not particularly concerned about potentially losing some easy money, one increment of $176 at a time There’s not much that the churning and MS community loves more than a good data point. Up to date info on what works, what doesn’t, and…
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One year in memoriam: The day the music died
One year ago today, the hammer that everyone but the most devoted Kool-Aid drinkers knew was coming finally fell on a wide swathe of churners. While shutdowns are always a part of the game and we must take them in stride, this wave was particularly notable. First, it wasn’t just whales that were caught up…
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Saturday shenanigans: Build your dream churning/MS lineup
If you’re even remotely active on Instagram, you’ve probably seen the “dream lineup” meme template. Essentially, you’re given a grid of rows of items fitting the theme. It’s up to you to allocate the limited budget you have on the items you value most. Like many of us, I’ve been goofing off vibe coding things…
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A churner looks at 40
Pictured: My original pfp in every private churning group I joined back in the day. If you don’t know who this is, you’re missing out, both on the song reference of this post, and more importantly, an outlook on life we could all stand to learn from I’ve received a lot of feedback in the…
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One foot on the gas, one foot in the grave
If you don’t know the eponymous song, I recommend listening to the album that is my personal definition of “all killer no filler”, provided you like a healthy dose of brass section) This has been a difficult week for the churning community, and that pent up frustration is boiling over into arguments all over the…
