Me
Bobby Swinson is a psuedonym due to the controversial nature of the content on this website. Hope you understand. And I still love you.
Purpose
This site hopes to explore, experiment, and share ways on how one can extract the most value out of life. Namely, this site tries to answer the question: “How do I get the most value – out of everything – given the minimum amount of time?"
This site is based on the assumption that time is limited, but value isn’t. Hence, we want to maximize our “value per hour” in everything we do.
How These Posts Work
Some posts are free. Most are paid. Premium posts will work by having a 🔒 icon in the title. Paid subscriptions to this site have access to all articles. I’ll try to keep 5-10 posts free for cheapos, at any given time. And I’ll rotate a subset of premium posts to free posts once every month or so.
Hence, if you can’t afford the paid subscription on this site, rejoice! You’ll eventually see all the premium posts, for free! Though there’s no guarantees that by the time that a premium post becomes free if the methods described will still be relevant.
How Much Is It, And Why Does This Cost Money?
Cost is currently listed on the homepage. This costs money because all the methods and experiments I do will cost money. Ergo, a lot of subscription funds will be purely funding new and exciting experiments, so I can do them for the audience and we can all learn from it.
Suppose there’s an experiment that costs $2000 and 2 months of time. With 200 members, I can use all that money and write a comprehensive report on the experimental result in 2 months' time. All 50 members will gain value by not having to do it themselves. And if the entire experiment is a failure, then the stop loss per person is $20. Whereas if any one individual were to take up the entire burden, then that individual’s stop loss is $2000 and 2 months of time.
Basically, this blog is a conduit to spread out the risk of experiments (which are inherently very risky). Prices will increase proportional to the number of members to curb demand (and competition). Many of these things might not work if everyone does it. Hence, it is better to cap the audience size down to a certain amount.
Members that sign up at the current cost are locked in to this price forever and are immune to all future price increases.
How Much Value Do These Posts Actually Have? Why Are You So Special?
Unlike affiliate or ad-driven sites, I have no incentive to ‘sell’ you anything as a part of my audience. There is no conflict of interest. You’re already paying the maximum amount by being a subscriber. There’s nothing to be gained, and everything to lose, by lying to you.
These posts will ideally have at least $100 of value per month. This figure is arrived by Pareto’s Law: each member of the audience is unlikely to do most of the things (80%) of what I suggest. And perhaps, on average, the audience will just do 1 out of 5 months' worth of hacks. The subscriber will have spent $100 and have gained $100, breaking even.
That is, I try to deliver at least 5X of quantifiable value every month.
“Quantifiable value” is also determined by the community to an extent (see below).
Most Important: Community Driven
Part of my motivation for starting this site is selfish, which is to learn more tricks and hacks on how to extract max value out of life.
I have limited resources and I only have so many hacks and ideas. I’ll run out of ideas someday and will need a community to pitch ideas at me on how to extract max value, so I can vet it myself and test it out.
If I do a report on an experiment and it isn’t good, I’d like to get feedback on how it can be done better or more accurately. Perhaps an experimental factor I haven’t thought of? Or some line of reasoning is incorrect? All this feedback helps make my experiments and future posts get better and better: that is, paid member participation adds more and more value to each future post. Put in other words: subscriber participation means that every subscriber’s monthly cost becomes effectively cheaper over time (i.e. if my posts at the beginning suck and only deliver $100/mo in value but future posts deliver $1000/mo on average in value).
So if I quantify a post as worth $10000 in value but it’s clearly worth $20, speak up and let me know. I probably am missing something.
I only accept feedback from paying subscribers because they are incentivized to make the posts more valuable. People who are not a subscriber have no ‘skin in the game’ and so while they might give valuable data, their signal-to-noise is quite low in general which makes it very time-consuming (i.e. low value) to parse through their comments.