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So by every metric that's supposed to matter, I'm fine. Yale MBA, four-year degree, ten years of work experience, and a corporate strategy job I spent years actually trying to get. Technically, I am living the dream, and I am more scared about my financial future than I have ever been.

Here's the thing nobody really talks about: doing everything right doesn't mean what it used to. I sit inside a large company and I watch what AI is doing to knowledge work in real time, and I'm going to be honest with you — my job is not going to look the same in five to ten years. That's not me being dramatic. That's me paying attention.

So I did what any reasonable, mildly panicking person does. I decided I needed to make ten million dollars.

I know how that sounds. But ten million is the number I've had in my head forever, the point where I stop working because I have to and start working because I actually want to. And I figured if I'm going to get there, I might as well use the exact thing that's threatening my career to do it.

What finally pushed me into actually doing something was the ads. I'm sure you've seen them. Passive income. Amazon convenience store. Digital products. Make money online. Six figures in your sleep. All these people acting like they've cracked some code, like it's obvious, like you're an idiot for not doing it already. And I kept watching them thinking, okay but does it actually work? For a real person, with a real job, and a real level of skepticism about all of it?

So I'm going to find out. I'm testing actual strategies, spending real money, tracking what happens, and telling you the honest truth about all of it. No pretending I have it figured out. Just the real, sometimes embarrassing process of a reasonably intelligent person trying to build something that lasts.

You're going to watch me figure this out. Or watch me fail. Probably some of both, honestly. Either way, I'll tell you exactly what happened.

Next issue: imposter syndrome is real, and also completely irrelevant.

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