Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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I don't do naps in a day. I think it's power naps are good, but I don't really, I'm never tired anymore in the day. Man, also because of gym, I'm not tired. I'm tired when I want to, you know, when it's night, I need to sleep.
Yeah.
Me too, yeah.
I never understood the small meal thing. It didn't work for me.
It's a job board for remote jobs. Because back then, like 10 years ago, there was... job boards, but it was not really specifically remote job job boards. So I made one, I made like first on Nomad is I made like Nomad jobs, like a page and a lot of companies started hiring and they pay for job posts. So I spin it off to Remote OK.
And now it's like the number one or number two biggest remote job boards. And it's also fully automated and people just post a job and people apply. It has like profiles as well. Like it's kind of like LinkedIn for remote work.
Yeah, it's essentially like a simple job board. I discovered job boards are way more complicated than you think, but yeah, it's a job board for remote jobs. But the nice thing is you can charge a lot of money for job posts. Man, it's good money.
B2B, you can charge like, you start with 299, but at the peak during when the Fed started printing money, like 2021, I was making like 140K a month with remote okay, with just job posts. And I started like adding crazy upsells, like rainbow-colored job posts. You can add your background name. It's just upsells, man. And you charge $1,000 for an upsell. It was crazy.
And all these companies just upsell, upsell. Yeah, we want everything. Job posts would cost $3,000, $4,000. And I was like, this is good business. And then the feds stopped printing money and it all went down and it went down to like 10K a month from 140. Now it's back, I think it's like 40. It was good times, you know?
10 years ago was like this trend in the blog. Back then blogs were so popular. It was like a blogosphere and it was like a hundred things challenge. What is that? A hundred things? I mean, it's ridiculous, but like you, you write down every object you have in your house and you count it, you make like a spreadsheet and you're like, okay, I have 500 things. You need to get it down to a hundred. Why?
You know, this is just a trend. So I did it. I started like selling stuff, started throwing away stuff. And I did like MDMA and XTC, like 2012 kind of, and, uh,
after that trip i felt so different and i felt like i had to start throwing shit away like i swear yeah and i started throwing shit away and i felt that was like it was almost like the drug sending me to a path of like you need to throw your shit away you need to start you know go on a journey you need to get out of here and um and that's what the mdma did i think yeah how hard is it to get down to 100 items
Boy, you need to like sell your PC and stuff. You need to go on eBay. And then, man, going eBay selling all your stuff is very interesting because you discover society. Man, you meet the craziest people. You meet every range, from rich to poor. Everybody comes to your house to buy stuff. It's so funny, so interesting. I recommend everybody do this.
Yeah. It was so... I didn't know... I was living in Amsterdam and I didn't know... I have my own subculture or whatever. And I discovered the Dutch people as they are from eBay. So I sold everything.
So back then I was making music and we would make music videos with a Canon 5D camera. Back then everybody was making films and music videos. And we bought it with my friends and stuff. And... It was kind of like, I had to sell this thing too, because it was like, it was very expensive, like 6K or something. But it meant that selling this meant that we wouldn't make music videos together anymore.
I would leave Holland, this kind of like stuff we were working on would end. And I was kind of saying this music video stuff, we're not getting big, we're not getting famous in this or successful, we need to stop doing this. This music production also, it's not really working.
And it was kind of like, felt very bad, you know, for my friends because we would work together on this and to sell this like camera that we'd make stuff with. It was a hard goodbye. It was just a camera, but it was like, it felt like, sorry guys, it doesn't work and I need to go, you know?
Yeah. But it was like, it was like cutting your life. Like this shit ends now. Now we're going to do new stuff.
Yeah, I think that's what I learned from it. Like, you learn that you can live with very little objects, very little stuff. But there's a counter to it. Like, you lean more on the stuff, on the services, right? Like, for example, you don't need a car, you use Uber, right? Or you don't need... Kitchen stuff, because you go to restaurants, you know, when you're traveling.
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