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Are the whales going extinct or hiding in plain sight?
Editor’s Note: Sorry these are coming at you fast and furious. This post was originally scheduled for earlier in the week, but Richard Kerr and Bilt messed up my editorial calendar. At least it’s been good to brush up on multiplication tables? The churning and MS community has some level of natural cyclicity and, well,…
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Thursday mini: When life imitates art
I was fully expecting that the usual suspects like MEAB and myself would be the only people seated in the peanut gallery for yesterday’s big Bilt launch, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that there were plenty of prominent voices calling out that the new program was unnecessarily complicated (outside of the absurd headlines…
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Cutting through the churning noise – launch day edition
I write quite a bit about how the hobby has changed as a result of widespread exposure. The evidence is all over the place – for example, when I went to visit my parents over the holidays, I fielded “best card” questions from pretty much all of their friends. It’s kind of endearing in a…
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Closing the loop – MS edition
The word loop is one of those many words in the churning and MS world that can mean a lot of different things depending on who you ask, kind of similar to how the whole hobby doesn’t have a universally accepted name. In a lot of places, it’s simply used as a synonym for play,…
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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…
