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ojbyrne
Sure sounds like a lot of (non-passive) work.
coconutrandom 

  Let me absolutely clear: you can’t take this path if you’re lazy.
ojbyrne
And my point was - it's not passive income.
idlewords
10, Maximalize the number of posts shilling your minimalist book, website, coffee mug, seminar, etc.
swombat
Not a very interesting post... curious what people are finding of interest in here? Seems like the same old stuff re-hashed, with a "minimalist" label slapped on top.
padmanabhan01
I do like the concept of minimalism, but there is just way too much BS going on in the name of 'minimalism' these days.

Trivia: //"I’m now the author of an e-book. It’s the Art of Being Minimalist. It’s only 9.95."

In the spirit of minimalism, why not make it 10$ instead of 9.95 ?

pyre
Because that would be maximizing the price!
kaddar
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spitfire
"minimalism" is the current trendy fashion accessory these days. Sort of like being "eco". The more and more you talk about how minimal you are, the cooler you are.

Of course it's all just bloggers trying to get views. A guide to minimalism would be simply "Minimalism is what is necessary.".

shalmanese
I'm sick of all this talk of "scalable incomes" that refuse to confront the inherent survivor bias problem. The problem with scalable incomes is that they scale down as well as up. Say you found a system that has a 1% chance of making you $100,000 a year and a 99% chance of making $5 a year. For the average person, that's a pretty shitty deal since it's only got an expected value of $1000 a year.

But sell the system to 1000 people and you can find 10 who enthusiastically talk about the wonders of scalable income and ponder wisely about the various choices they made that got them to where they are today and how everyone should join them in the wonderful scalable utopia.

It's all bullshit, without accounting for the hidden failures, it's impossible to determine how much pure luck played a role.