I write about things I like unrelated to photography or videography, such as crypto, personal finance, traveling, sports, space, my fight against pollution, consumerism and waste, and online privacy and accessibility.
18 Feb 2021 5 minute read 0 comments PierreL
A brief overview of NEXO NEXO is a crypto and FIAT lending/borrowing platform, like BlockFi or Celsius, but with some particularities that make them stand out. Since 2018, they've been working to shape the future of personal finance and the lending m...
13 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments PierreL
The 6 Nations tournament, Europe's biggest rugby event of the year, kicked off last week in empty stadiums and with isolated players, to avoid the problems faced in last year's edition. As round 2 is starting today, let's take a quick look at what ha...
11 Feb 2021 4 minute read 1 comment PierreL
Instead of thinking of ways to earn money, I wanted to focus this post on ways to avoid spending money, aka looking at what I spend on a monthly or yearly basis and seeing what I could cut. And these expenses cuts could be looked at in two ways: eith...
8 Feb 2021 3 minute read 5 comments PierreL
I started the year with a lot of motivation and ideas, but my momentum got cut short in the second half of the month because my day job as a video editor kept me more busy than I anticipated. But I still found time to work on a few extra elements and...
19 Jan 2021 4 minute read 1 comment PierreL
In my previous post, I listed some of the projects I'm currently working on to start securing several streams of income in 2021. Today, I will share some ideas and thoughts that have been on my mind, that I may start acting on this year, but that I d...
13 Jan 2021 2 minute read 1 comment PierreL
Colorizing black and white photos is not something new, but having it done by an artificial intelligence surely makes the task easier! DeOldify is a machine learning tool that takes a black and white photo or video as input and colorizes it in a ma...
11 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PierreL
Hi everyone! As we all did, I woke up this morning with the price of Bitcoin going down more than 20% and dropping more than $10k! This is what we were all expecting to happen, and it's indeed happening... The sharpest drop in BTC history, in like 12...
9 Jan 2021 3 minute read 2 comments PierreL
Okay so, now that I've established my goal and where I'm starting from, it's time to dust off my old Trello board full of ideas and see what options I have to make this work and truly diversify my income. I will probably write separate posts about mo...
7 Jan 2021 10 minute read 1 comment PierreL
TL;DR To save the Earth and your cash at the same time, forget single-use items and think reusability! Think of it as an investment with short/mid term positive returns, as you buy something once that's a bit more expensive than usual, and use it for...
5 Jan 2021 7 minute read 0 comments PierreL
I figured the first step in my journey to income diversification was to look at what I was actually already doing towards that goal, meaning what extra revenue streams do I already have, apart from my job? Even if it only got me a few cents, or if di...
