# Allan Jeremy > God Coder · Weirdpreneur · Future Billionaire. Personal site of Allan Jeremy — software engineer, entrepreneur, and writer. Articles on building, business, AI, the seven deadly sins of investing, and an Airbnb operator's playbook. ## Pages - [Home](https://allanjeremy.com/): hero, recent articles, and tools. - [Blog](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/): full article archive (20 articles). - [Portfolio](https://allanjeremy.com/portfolio/): selected work across design, engineering, writing, and game dev. - [About](https://allanjeremy.com/about/): who I am. - [Contact](https://allanjeremy.com/contact/): how to reach me. - [Tools](https://allanjeremy.com/tools/): small public tools. ## Articles - [The phrase “what you give to the universe, it gives back to you” is poetry, not physics.](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/the-phrase-what-you-give-to-the-universe-it-gives-back-to-you-is-poetry-not-physics/): There is no known mechanism in cosmology, quantum mechanics, or any other branch of science where the universe tracks your generosity and sends you matching rewards. The universe is mostly vacuum, radiation, and indifferent thermodynamics. Supernovae do not check your moral ledger before exploding. That said, the idea survives because it maps onto real social [...] - [Is it more productive to feel cold or warm when working? The Surprising Truth About Temperature and Productivity!”](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/is-it-more-productive-to-feel-cold-or-warm-when-working/): It all started with this one curious question. I was in between feeling cold and warm as I settled into my home office desk. A yeti mug with a dose of caffeine in it (in coffee form) and 3 monitors staring back at me, almost as if to say “When are you gonna start?”. For [...] - [How to start a small business – a step by step guide](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/how-to-start-a-small-business-a-step-by-step-guide/): I’ll get straight to the point on how you can start a small business today: Ideation Coming up with the idea Every business needs to solve a problem. Instead of trying to come up with an solution in search of a problem, first look for problems around you and come up with potential solutions for [...] - [Types of Guests to avoid when hosting on Airbnb](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/types-of-guest-to-avoid-when-hosting-on-airbnb/): So, I just got my first semi-troublesome guest at my new airbnb. There were a couple of red flags from the beginning, but it’s hard to say no when you’re just starting out and trying to make rent through the bookings you get. The red flags If it sounds like I am ranting about my [...] - [How to start an Airbnb in Kenya](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/how-to-start-an-airbnb-in-kenya/): In today’s day and age, having a single income stream is detrimental. What happens when you lose your job? You’re often screwed. One appealing way to build an income stream is through short-term rentals. Airbnb popularized short-term rentals. You pay to rent a room or a home for a brief amount of time. This puts [...] - [Building a Startup – Chapter 1: The Dream](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/building-a-startup-chapter-1-the-dream/): I almost always feel like I am not doing enough. Most folks will tell you that the best thing to do for your startup is to have it in the hands of customers as fast as possible. What if you are the customer? As a self-taught software engineer, I recently found myself in this predicament. [...] - [7. Wrath – 7 Deadly Sins Investing](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/wrath/): Wrath Wrath can be defined as uncontrolled anger, rage, and even hatred. It often reveals itself as the desire to seek vengeance. Hatred is the sin of desiring that someone else may suffer a misfortune. For many of us, when someone wrongs us, we want to get back at them. When your partner cheats on [...] - [5. Pride – 7 Deadly Sins Investing](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/pride/): Pride can be defined as dangerously corrupt selfishness, the putting of one’s own desires urges, wants, and whims before the welfare of other people. Pride is the strongest of the 7 deadly sins because pretty much every other cardinal sin stems from it. When referencing pride, we will also reference ego quite a bit. Ego [...] - [6. Sloth – 7 Deadly Sins Investing](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/sloth/): Sloths are lazy. Like really lazy. The sloth vice refers to laziness in its entirety. Human beings are naturally lazy. We hate doing things that are hard, that is why so few people succeed. Most of us know what it would take for us to achieve our goals, yet we keep procrastinating and finding reasons [...] - [4. Lust – 7 Deadly Sins Investing](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/lust/): If I were to ask you what the world’s oldest professions are, what would you say? Would prostitution cross your mind? If so, great! Because that means you probably know that human lust is an unerasable vice. Sex sells. Always has, always will. Lust is a strong sexual desire. Sex sells because humans are sexual [...] - [2 & 3. Gluttony & Greed – 7 Deadly Sins Investing](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/gluttony-and-greed/): Both gluttony and greed are sins of desire. Basically, people never being satisfied and always wanting more. Of all the sins, this is probably the one with the most examples of people taking advantage of it. - [1. Envy – 7 Deadly Sins Investing](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/envy/): Envy Envy is a feeling of resentful longing aroused by another person’s possessions, qualities, or luck. It is what happens when a person finds themselves wishing that they had something that another person has, often with resentment towards said person. Envy is everywhere around us. Predominantly, it can be explicitly seen in what most celebrities [...] - [7 Deadly sins investing – Introduction](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/7-deadly-sins-investing/): History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Mark Twain Anything that lasts a long time through multiple civilizations has some fundamental truth in it. One such thing is the Christian Bible. A compilation of books that is used by the Christian faith as a guiding source of wisdom. There’s a reason for that. Now, [...] - [A Primer on Bitcoin for the Uninitiated](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/a-primer-on-bitcoin-for-the-uninitiated/): Unless you’re living under a rock, cast away from modern civilization or lost at sea, you have probably heard of Bitcoin. Having generated an onslaught of media hubbub and social media frenzy, you cannot not have heard about it. What Bitcoin is, or might become, is what could elude you perhaps. And so, thank the [...] - [NetGraph – How to get a hold of anyone [Powered by AI]](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/netgraph/): Six people That’s how far you are from anyone in the world right now. Be it your favorite actor or the president of a world power. This concept is called the six degrees of separation and in today’s age, it is probably even less than that. Social media has made almost everyone in the world [...] - [Reliability index and the age of human ranking](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/reliability-index/): Imagine a world where you can tell how reliable a person is before you work or get into any engagement with them. Think of how much less frustration there would be in the world because of it. Every human being has a general reliability score, it just isn’t public. Bad clients are more often than [...] - [A paperless solution – No more signing books to check in/out](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/paperless/): Why is it that when you go into any commercial building or modern estate you have to sign a book to get in? Not only that, you may also need to leave your identification document in some places; which by the way, is very easy to forget when leaving the premises. In this day and [...] - [Building an AI that detects actions and emotions in videos](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/building-an-action-emotion-detection-ai/): Let’s start with establishing some context. Some time earlier this year, I started a new YouTube channel by the name Making it in Africa. The whole idea of this channel was to attempt building a multi-million dollar company in 2-3 years in Africa starting with $0 and document the journey. As far as I was [...] - [5 typical ways to earn money online](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/5-typical-ways-to-earn-money-online/): Start a YouTube channel YouTube is great. A lot of creators make good money here but, on the flipside, YouTube is hard. Putting out content that is anything above decent requires time and effort. That’s not the hard part though. YouTube rewards consistency almost more than anything else and consistency takes discipline. Moreover, it will [...] - [Genesis](https://allanjeremy.com/blog/genesis/): If there is one thing I have been procrastinating on starting, it is this blog. Not because I had no thoughts to share. No, far from that. Mostly because I somehow deluded myself into believing that there is no inherent benefit to me starting this journey soon. Well, those days are over and we are [...] ## Tools - [Double Calculator](https://allanjeremy.com/tools/double-calculator/): how many doublings to reach your goal. ## Feeds - [RSS](https://allanjeremy.com/rss.xml): article feed. - [Sitemap](https://allanjeremy.com/sitemap-index.xml): full URL list.