Making money exercising outdoors, is this real?

Well, yes and no. I found a nickel in the ground when I was finishing my running session earlier. So, technically I made some money but it is not something to make a living with.

Maybe it is just my wife's recent obsession with Kaballah studies, but I felt like a bigger force was talking to me.

January Ship 30 for 30 cohort finished while I was still distilling what my writing category would be about. My initial list of interests is really broad, there are ideas about learning and education, habits, storytelling, economics and politics, bitcoin and money, abstractions and philosophy, music and visual arts, computer science and mathematics.

I'm definitely a generalist…

Those are all topics that resonate with me. I invested a fair amount of time diving way deeper than just watching a few YouTube videos or reading some tweets about each. In the last 10 years I've read an average of 15 books per year, not counting the reading I have to naturally endure for my position in academia.

But lately I have been exploring an apparent link between all of those topics.

Consistency, the simple idea of showing up (almost) every day to do something.

Consistency allowed me to finish a 400km bike ride on my 30th birthday.

Consistency allowed me to become a (now retired) self-taught classical guitarist at 22.

Consistency allowed me to build financial stability to my family (and improving every year).

Consistency is not easy to get. You have to educate yourself, but you also have to get rid of external setbacks.

Looking back, going deeper into some unrelated topics helped me free my way for improvement. To understand how people learn helped me optimize my study or exercising sessions efficiency. To understand politics helped me to stay immune to them and focus on true improvement areas. To understand visual arts and music helped me stand out among computer scientists and academics and find people to help me stay on track.

Maybe I'm just blathering…

But that nickel put me into this weird stream of thought. And it happened just because I'm showing up in the public park near my place 5 times a week.

Consistently…