Comments on: Great podcast: How to make money without a job

By: lms

lms — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:58:54 +0000

I want my 16 minutes back. And the time it takes to post this response.

By: JBA

JBA — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:08:25 +0000

He repeats the same nebulous fluff for the first few minutes without any specific examples to illustrate. “Follow your passion” does not constitute a business model.

The catch is that the skills you need to leverage take a lot of time and effort (and sometimes expense) to develop to the point that you can turn them into passive income streams. This guy’s argument also depends on a high degree of internet proficiency. Save yourself trouble and start an Ebay store or go into internet porn.

I agree with Dennis (above), but this Reed guy seems to spend an inordinate amount of time and effort debunking Kiyosaki.

By: Mai

Mai — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:27:24 +0000

Ramit, thanks for the link to this site. Sounds really cool to me. I just added it to my favorites.

Mai

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:13:36 +0000

Jesus–
Sorry i should have been more clear. The guy does have great ideas and I totally buy into the idea that not all your income needs to come from a “job” (or any of it, in his case). It’s just that…the first 5mn almost lost me due to the shocking similarity in pitch to a pyramid scheme (which I was so recently assaulted by…I’m jumpy). Anyway, point taken, I’ll post the whole long comment next time

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:08:17 +0000

A friend of mine once told me that the surest way to make money is to bet on human vanity. I would now add indolence and greed. These are the exact reasons why publications like this podcast or iwillteachyoutoberich.com are published anywhere else than comedy central. The chain of arguments on this mp3 is so weak that it would be an insult to my intelligence and a waste of time to debate them.

Keep your minds working and your ears away from �evagelists�. They always want to sell something.

Also check out this article on another collegue of these guys here: http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html

By: Matt Henderson

Matt Henderson — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:39:55 +0000

Wow. We all seem to run AdSense these days, but his site seems to overdo it a bit.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:49:58 +0000

jeez – you nned some training on web design, pal.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050711.html

By: jennifer

jennifer — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:10:19 +0000

Does anyone know if this guy is a follower of David Wolfe? His intro page came off a little Avocado. But he has me curious.

Ramit, what’s your take on the “power of intention?”

By: liz

liz — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:32:02 +0000

The fact that he graduated with a double major in three semester scares me. But I did try his method for becoming an early riser (if you are not a morning person) and it actually works. Woohoo!

By: Michael G. Richard

Michael G. Richard — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:11:17 +0000

I enjoy about 85% of what Steve writes, which is a pretty good batting average. He certainly takes personal growth seriously and it is motivating to read about his process (read the Polyphasic Sleep series of posts, if you haven’t).