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January PSA – Friends vs. Customers

One of the best parts of the MS/churning community is how friendly and interesting the vast majority of the people participating in it are. Outside of a couple of bad apples, it’s one of the least toxic online communities I’ve personally ever been a part of. For a side hustle that is pretty lucrative and…
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Mistakes are part of the journey, and thoughts on pay for play

Since the beginning of the hobby, there was generally a natural progression to move from churner to shrimp to dolphin to whale using whatever was the most popular platform of the time. Whether it was back in the day on Flyertalk, /r/churning, or deep down in comment threads on Doctor of Credit, you gradually picked…
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Story time: What churning and MS mean to me

Pictured: an ice cold Ožujsko in Dubrovnik, circa 2018 Editor’s note: This post is very long and somewhat personal/vulnerable (my probe group may even go so far as to call it…sensitive?) and while it relates to MS and churning plenty, it isn’t about a specific play. If you liked my post on finding purpose in…
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MS puzzles: 2025 year in review edition

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Real Gs move in silence like lasagna

We’re halfway through December, which means it’s officially that time of year in which every possible app, website, and community jumps on the “your year wrapped trend” that hasn’t really even been that interesting since Spotify first started it in 2015. I’ll admit that I used to share mine thinking that people cared (they didn’t),…
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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure

One of the most difficult things to comprehend even at an intermediate or advanced level is the full potential of value associated with certain plays. We’ve all been so conditioned to do the inane math of annual fee minus some arbitrary value of credits that Big Blog has beaten into us that reading between the…
