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How is it that "keep a blog about passive income" is such a common path to living off passive income?

• smackfu 14y ago
  Ha, similar to selling instructions about how to make money fast is how to make money fast.
• chime 14y ago
  Same way "How to make money" books make money for just the author.
• Robin_Message 14y ago
  Proof by contradiction: You'll never read the blogs of people who failed to make a passive income by having a blog about making a passive income by having a blog about passive income, because you reading such a failed blog would imply that blog had a readership and would therefore make money off advertising so it wouldn't be a failed blog. QED. It's sort of the Anthropic principle: you could only notice that if such blogs existed, and such blogs could only exist if you read them, so you've answered your own question.
• pcorsaro 14y ago
  I've always wondered this. Most of the time, the readers of a blog about passive income are people that want to make passive income, and likely have their own blog about how they also make passive income. It's like a snake eating its own tail.
• ebiester 14y ago
  To be fair, Pavlina started as a mid-level Indie game developer and moved into the self-help world. I think the first buzz he received was on thirty day trials and (in particular) polyphasic sleep. He's always been a bit unorthodox, but he wrote a book that I found to have quite a bit of value, and was quite a bit more challenging in its exercises than the standard self-help book. I still read him, but more for the occasional nuggets now - for where I am in life, I don't receive much value from his current set of posts because it isn't where I am right now in life. That's okay. As for the passive income bit, I'm hoping the series gets better, but I fear it is going to be a repackaging of what he's said before.