Teardowns
Each one takes a popular money-making idea, shows why it sounds good, and then shows where it breaks.
- #03
Easy wins that aren't
Seven remote jobs you can do from home, and what the video skipped
A popular video promised seven work-from-home jobs in twenty minutes. They're all real jobs. None of them is the easy win it was sold as.
- #02
Shiny object
The faceless TikTok myth: how you become an unpaid worker for five software companies
AI script, AI voice, AI images, auto-posting, passive cash. Here is what it really costs and what it really pays.
- #01
Wrong intervention point
The voice AI app that solves a problem nobody wants to talk to
A voice-first finance app built around a pause before impulse spending. The idea was mine, and it does not survive contact with a real shop.
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