Not going Fernando Pessoa here and saying the only way to be free is to be rich, but we can build small utopias, may be smaller than the zapatistas, but big enough for our lives.
My Utopia
- Researching and writing code
- Able to travel around the world
- Able to grow a small portion of my food in my land
- Collaborate with free_software and radical-systems for coops
How?
- Bounty hunt bugs
- Working as a contractor / freelancer (hire-me-for-a-freelance)
- pay-the-bills-with-free-software
- Creating apps for shopify
- Sponsoware
- remote-working
- Selling personal tokens? https://medium.com/@bramanathan/the-personal-token-revolution-754e3fe0987e / https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-tokenize-yourself-full
- Affiliated Programs
- https://tinypilotkvm.com/affiliate-policy
- https://hetzner.cloud/?ref=VYbI94ua94vH (<- already valid, I get discount on my Cloud usage!)
- https://n26.com/r/eliasd0109 (<-- already valid)
- phd-program?
- Ask people to hire you paying whatever they want in exchange for you to choose interesting problems?
Random people doing something similar
Plan
🌳 => Done
🌱 => Doing
🥀 => Not started
- Identify costs 🌳
- Understand how much money do I need per year in order to keep the same lifestyle + be able to survive in the coming years as I get older and more “expensive” (i.e. medical bills should increase)
- Reduce waste 🌳
- Shop groceries in Lidl and Audi in order to save money (no reason to buy 2euros tortillas if I can pay 30 cents)
- I enjoy buying electronics, but some of them I will never use.
- Remove any subscription I can instead host myself
- Save some money to have six months sabbatical. 🌳
- Prepare for the sabbatical 🥀
- Only work in things I’m passionate about
- Come up with a list of things I want to do
- Define a cool way to report it 😄
- Try to come up with something to pay the bills after the sabbatical 🥀
- Side projects and other stuff described at How section