Jason Leow

I felt inspired today and set a new goal. One that’s been a long time coming. Better now—in 2022—than never.

It’s called Mind My Millions, a goal to develop good money habits and mindsets, for wealth to enter my life.

I need to get more serious about my money habits. I need to learn more about managing money, making money, investing, allocating capital.

Some open questions going into this new goal:

• How do I attract abundance?
• What’s a millionaire mindset?
• How do I generate and keep wealth?
• How do millionaires manage money?
• How can I automate my money habits?
• What money habits and systems do millionaires have?
• What are some things millionaires do that the mainstream don’t?
• How do I spend money made from money, instead of money made from time?
• What counter-mainstream narratives do millionaires have for saving, investing, real estate, stocks, crypto?
• What do I need to learn about the money industrial complex (tax, accounting, finance laws) that 99% of people don’t know or understand?

To make it more specific and targeted, I’m going to do a #30daysofmoney challenge. Need to think through this more tomorrow.

Any other money habits and mindsets I should add to the list?

https://twitter.com/jasonleowsg/status/1489509050572165122

Wordle is a static site. The source code is public.

New York Times could have cloned Wordle over a weekend.

Yet they just acquired it for 7 figures.

Moral of the story?

Your code doesn't matter.

- repurpose content from Twitter to IG, TikTok, LinkedIn. Just screenshot and post them. Takes just a few min!

- advice to focus on 1 platform makes sense in the early days. But once you got content flywheel going, time to repurpose. The sooner the better.

- started using coloured circles instead for MRR progress bar on Twitter profile. More stand out!

- fastest way to repurpose a tweet: by screenshoting it, white highlighter to white out other elements, and post right away on IG

- often the simplest and most mundane of tweets do the best

You hear this advice a lot on Writing Twitter:

It’s better to write clearly than to be clever.

Clever is about being an attention-seeker.
Clear is about being a great communicator.

The funny thing is, everything I said above about clear vs clever writing might as well be true for career, goals, life, and everything in between.

Clear > clever.

Unlikely life advice from writing, right there.

- manually tweeted out each tweet in a long thread, with 1 min delay in between. Apparently, the algorithm doesn't like it when sending an entire thread in one go (looks like spam perhaps?). Trying the 1 min delay to see if it helps. https://twitter.com/jasonleowsg/status/1489146720109928451

- I need a unifed swipe file that selectively pulls links from Twitter Bookmarks, Telegram saved messages, FB, IG, Chrome, Overcast (or any podcast app)

- I get more unfollows when posting threads. Interesting pattern to observe. Are threads over-done now? To the point that it turns off some people?

- I either don't write threads, or I write 2 threads in 1 day 🔥🤣❄️

- If I'm gonna write threads, I better start having a collection of my best threads. Looks like time to start a page on www.threadsby.me

It’s been a year of biohacking sleep! It’s been a crazy ride:

Milestones
• Set my biohacking sleep goal here on 4 Jan 2021
• Started sleep tracking on 3 Feb, posting on Twitter for accountability
• Discovering coffee naps was a gamechanger
• First 3 months was pure struggle - frequent 60-70% scores
• Started 4am wake on 25 Apr
• Month 4 to 6 was about settling into it - more 70% scores
• Got my first >90% sleep score on 7 Jul
• Created “5am creators”, the 5am club for creators as a Telegram chat group on 14 Aug
• Hit 99% sleep score on 25 Dec
• Wrote about the 10 lessons I learned from biohacking sleep on my 10th month.
• Sleeping in my own room
• Stabilising at ~80% scores
• Chronotype change is complete

- get comfortable with punchy short 2-3 liner tweets. High info/insight density!
- had to manually RT at night 9:30pm just before bed due to wanting to leverage on Alt Text feature on Typefully which tldrip didn't have. I need a tool that does it ALL!
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Continuing with starting slow, setting out to do ONE thing for each project in Feb:

Core goals
• Hit $200 MRR
• Plugins For Carrd: Launch 1 new free plugin
• Lifelog: Fix 1 bug.

Side quests
• Look for 1 boring product/sweaty startup. This is to help with my revenue goals, and to make the transition to fulltime indie hacking more sustainable.

Health
• Sleep biohacking: Set up my Moona. Btw I hit 1 year of sleep biohacking tomorrow!
• Fit AF: Recover 100% from injury, continue twice-weekly sunrise slow jogs.

Forwards, to Feb!

- crawl past daily posts for weekly thread ideas on Twitter - repurpose!
- is there a way to categorize bookmarks, and then after bookmarking say 10 tweets of one category, make a thread out of it? tldrip allows for walled bookmarks..
- don't just tweet axioms, also building in public stuff. What's something interesting I did this week? Marketing, developing, systems. Or something I'm thinking about for my products, questions I have...

Revenue:
• MRR: US$120 (all from Lifelog)
• One-off revenue: ~ US$4.08

Twitter stats: Jan vs Dec vs Nov
– Tweets: 1103 vs 1301 vs 1072
– Tweet impressions: 335K vs 326K vs 261K
– Likes: 3.4K vs 3.3K vs 2.7K
– Engagement rate: 3.7% vs 3.4% vs 3.8%
– Profile visits: 60.5K vs 55.1K vs 44.2K
– Mentions: 941 vs 1331 vs 905
– New followers: 337 vs 231 vs 251

Reflections
• Twitter and Lifelog went well. The trajectory—more than the target—speaks for itself.
• But it was a mentally tough month of resting. I rested physically but mentally I was restless. I don’t feel recharged and refreshed at all.
• My body caught up with me. I injured myself by standing too long on one foot while using the standing desk, resulting in Achilles tendonitis.
• My spiritual teacher passed away, adding to the general low this month.
• Tl;dr - not rested, and not ready.

Every time you buy something, you’re not just paying for it once, but thrice.

• Upfront costs: You spend the money purchasing it.
• Opportunity costs: You spend time and effort to set it up, experience it
• Maintenance costs: You spend time maintaining, cleaning, updating it to continue using it

For example, a new online course on Coursera:

• Upfront costs: You pay $100 for it.
• Opportunity costs: You actually make the time to do the course, learn and benefit from it
• Maintenance costs: You got to apply it, use the knowledge

User didn't agree with one of my tweets, decided to act with the wallet. 🤷‍♂️ Expect more of the same to happen, as I put myself out there more and more often

My usual go-to question when asking someone for advice for a specific topic is:

“What are the top 3 things that brought 80% of the results?”

But I got to admit, it’s a question looking for quick hacks.

I was asking the wrong question all along.

I didn't always know what worked and what led to my success. But I definitely knew what didn’t work.

So a better question to ask is to ask about what not to do.

• “What is something people spend too much time on that I should skip entirely?”
• What’s the top 3 mistakes you made that you don’t wish on someone else in similar shoes?
• What did you focus on back then that you now wished otherwise?
• What would your current self tell your past self on what not to do?

The via negativa approach to seeking advice.

- joined a Twitter marketing group for support and learning, started by @ayushtweetshere
https://twitter.com/ayushtweetshere/status/1486754332951252993
- use emojis to paint visuals within text field, like Wordle shitposts
- I need a Twitter alarm reminder (Chrome extension?) to remind me to manually RT now that I'm experimenting with RTing every 6h through the day

What’s better than a 1000-person company making $1B profit per year?

A 1-person company making $1M profit a year.

Former sounds stressful. Latter sounds like I'll get time and creative freedom.

A blank calendar > a full bank account

Or you can be lazy (lol) and be a 1-person company making $100K a year. That’s plenty for most of us. Certainly for me.

But one can dream.

- I need a Twitter swipe file web app that has a bookmarklet Chrome extension, where I can paste the URL of a tweet I like and it extracts the text into text field that I can copy and paste elsewhere easily. Ideally I can categorize, search and sort the swipe file too.
- been doing a lot of manual RTs. I need an app that allows me to drop in the URL of a tweet (mine or someone else's) and allows me to schedule the datetime of the RT and how many times.

Anyone knows if these exists?

"Follow the rules you lose. Choose violence you win."

Ok new tweeting schedule looks like this, with RTs every 7h:
• 16:00 - indie hacker/BIP tweet
• 18:00 - writing tweet with Lifelog plug
• 23:00 - 1st RT (auto) of 16:00 tweet
• 01:00 - 1st RT (auto) of 18:00 tweet
• 06:00 - 2nd RT (manual) of 16:00 tweet
• 08:00 - 2nd RT (manual) of 18:00 tweet
• 10:00 - 5am club tweet
• 12:00 - 3rd RT (manual) of 16:00 tweet
• 13:00 - 3rd RT (manual) of 18:00 tweet
• 14:00 - RT (manual) of old tweet from ~1 month ago
[• 16:00 - new tweet cycle starts]

- need to look for a Twitter scheduler that allows me to auto-RT multiple times based on a pre-set number of hours!
- Twitter scheduler should also allow for RT queues for old tweets

Anyone knows a Twitter scheduler that can do all that? Hypefury? Tweethunter?