What’s the most randomly successful thing you’ve ever done? Could be work related, could be a personal project/hobby.

I somewhat accidentally built a a blog that nets me around 15k/month in ad revenue. It started with my deciding to write medium articles about interesting business wins and foibles (things like the Hoover plane ticket promo) and added short audio clips to make the articles “multimedia”.

I ended up replatforming onto Ghost, threw some marketing $$ at Twitter, and blew up

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Wow, congrats! Drop the blog URL, I'd love to see it!! Mine is less lucrative for sure, but I sort of stumbled into sourdough baking and now I've got a great side gig where I sell bread at farmer's markets and to local coffee shops. I've managed to do it while keeping my day job (because I'm remote) and it brings in a bit of money but is mostly just fun and I get to meet cool people doing it

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Very cool! I tried my hand at the blog back when, and never really had a ton of success, but definitely was fun and I still learned a lot doing it. Something else I had gotten into was knitting and have made a ton of blankets for the family which has been nice to pass something homemade on.

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Got the brand i was working with just for a summer into Hamptons Fashion Week!

Wow, would love to see

This is awesome. If you're netting $15k a month off the blog what are you doing with it? Still working? Have any employees? Are you doing the blog full time?

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