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What I would do if I was 18 now


Somebody asked me what I would do if I was 18 in 2016. It’s a good question because it’s such an odd time where old institutions and traditional thinking don’t really make sense anymore. I can’t say I’m an expert on this though, because when

If you look with a fresh mind though, there’s never been more opportunities for young people if they’re smart about it: they have the freedom to build their own jobs from scratch on the internet, they can have clients and customers from anywhere in the world and if they want themselves work from anywhere they want. If you build a software product (like a website or app or subscription-based service), you can usually scale it pretty easily without having to work a lot more on it. Now that you have cashflow that doesn’t need a lot of work, and you’re saving properly, go and follow your real passions like creativity, art, music, writing, poetry, dance, travel, help people, whatever it is.

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