Writing on building, business, AI, and the seven deadly sins of investing.https://allanjeremy.com/https://allanjeremy.com/blog/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 [...]Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTBusinesshttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/7-deadly-sins-investing/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, [...]Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTBusinessLifehttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/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 [...]Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMTBusinessGeneralIdeasTechnologyhttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/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. [...]Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTBusinesshttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/building-an-action-emotion-detection-ai/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 [...]Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTAITechnologyhttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/envy/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 [...]Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTBusinessLifehttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/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 [...]Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTGeneralhttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/gluttony-and-greed/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.Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTBusinessLifehttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/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 [...]Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTBusinesshttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/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 [...]Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTBusinesshttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/is-it-more-productive-to-feel-cold-or-warm-when-working/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 [...]Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTBusinessGeneralLifehttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/lust/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 [...]Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTBusinessLifehttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/netgraph/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 [...]Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMTAIIdeasTechnologyhttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/paperless/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 [...]Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTBusinessIdeasTechnologyhttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/pride/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 [...]Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTBusinessLifehttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/reliability-index/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 [...]Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMTIdeashttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/sloth/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 [...]Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTBusinessLifehttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/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 [...]Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/types-of-guest-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 [...]Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTBusinesshttps://allanjeremy.com/blog/wrath/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 [...]Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTBusinessLife