So, what did I learn?

Today, perhaps the part, the only thing, that comes to my mind about stuff which I learned today about programming, is that Select2 does support a timeout, which first waits for a user to stop typing and fires the ajax call after that timeout. This is a really neat feature, since it prevents flooding the backend with a bunch of highly unspecific queries.

But there is a feeling of not really having anything new. Why? Yesterday I bragged about the little stuff, that adds up over time. And I still believe this. The problem with such very small increments, is that it's not hard to learn such small stuff. It's not really rare and hence, not really too valuable.

The really valuable and rare stuff is always outside one's comfort zone. And that makes it so rare, because only a few are willing to step out their comfort zone to learn new stuff.

For me, next to the problem of willingness, my problem is time management. When shall I learn all this great new stuff? How should I handle all those commitments in personal life, church, in your career, in your self development? I guess, only by refusing new commitments and slowly stepping out of existing ones.

So again, (I know, I repeat myself), time is the only real currency in your life. Choose wisely.

Today I learned: There are some people in this world, actually making money with clicking links.

I begin to hate this month's challenge. I am tired and have absolutely no interest in writing this article. But I have to.

So, let's talk about someone, who approached me with an idea for a web site. Something, that allows you to make money with ad selling, but is not a scam (like many current websites, that promise to make money by selling or even viewing ads.)

It works like this: You buy (with real money) some ads, by a company, which guarantees you, that real people will watch your ad (sometimes even for a guaranteed time). They want premium prices for that. And they pay those people. Sometimes even $0.0005 per view.

Realizing that, it's clear, that there must be a some sort of multiplier. Getting paid one bloody cent for filling at least 20 captchas, clicking through some odd landing pages (yes, seriously, the person approaching me with this idea exactly this), just to view twenty extremely boring ads, wasting at least 10 minutes of your life (that's how it would approximately take to view twenty ads), making 6 cents a hour is not really a luxury income. The person approaching me, uses automation tools for filling in forms. She said: "Filling all those captchas out manually, I don't do that. That's something for people for those who really have NOTHING to do.". Did I mention, that she is unemployed?

And there is a multiplier: multi-level marketing like downline, in which you get paid for the viewing actions of those "under" you, can make it a little bit more attractive, sometime even earning 100s of dollars a month.


So, what did I reply? I was not really interested in implementing something like that. By implementing this, I surely would learn a ton. Especially about money transfer APIs of banks. It may be a cool opportunity to acquire valuable new skills.
But I wondered: When should I do this? I am already stressed out chasing all those ideas in my head.

This world is full of great opportunies. Tempus fugit.  Choose wisely.