Money For Nothing

Pick Of The Day — 18th March 2024 — Very passive income, crypto giveaways, leaving subscribers, recommended reading, clock watching, FOM, a scary encounter, juggling, AI, Eeyores, sleepy writing, racism, revolting MPs, the impulse to write, a change of scene, a basket case, mammoths, autodidacts, and a volcano

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Pick of Medium — Very passive income, crypto giveaways, leaving subscribers, recommended reading, clock watching, FOM, a scary encounter, juggling, and AI.

Matthew Clapham celebrates money for nothing:

Ripton Green advises to be wary of cryptocurrency “giveaways”:

James Bellerjeau has 50 ways to leave your (unwanted) subscribers:

Bette A. Ludwig 🔍 PhD features some recommended reading:

R C Hammond is watching the clock:

Speculate to accumulate? Susie Kearley suggests that FOM has improved earnings:

Marcia Abboud has a close encounter of the scary kind:

Wesley van Peer writes on juggling the demands of family and career:

A.R. (a professional moron) considers some of the achievements of AI:

One for the Eeyores. SoulWriter reflects on pessimism:

Medium tip of the day — Write when sleepy

Nour Boustani recommends some novel ideas for inspiration:

Trending:

The following searches are currently trending in the UK:

Steve Harley, Manchester United vs. Liverpool, royal announcement.

https://trends.google.co.uk/home

Outside of Medium: racism and revolting MPs

Discredited terms with racist undertones are being routinely used by police in the UK:

Many MPs in the UK parliament are standing down at the coming General Election. Many of them are excellent people who have made a real contribution to political life. Here some of them reflect on the dysfunctional system they have been part of:

Life Hack of the day –A change of scene

Here simplest recommends changing our environment:

Quote of the day:

“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.”

— Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joke of the Day: a basket case

(Health warning — swallow coffee before reading)

“I think the bravest thing I’ve ever done is misjudge how much shopping I want to buy and still not go back to get a basket.”

National Days:

National Sloppy Joe Day, National Black Pudding Day, Global Recyling Day, Companies That Care Day, Forgive Mum and Dad Day, National Awkward Moments Day, National Biodiesel Day. (All of these are genuine! The link below provides further details, useful for some of the more obscure ones.)

Did you know?

A small population of Mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until 1650 BC, about 900 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza was completed.

Word of the Day: autodidact

autodidact — a self-taught person.

Clip of the Day: Volcano in Iceland

A volcano in Iceland is erupting again:

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