The Internet Service Provider
As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve experimented selling goods online and services online. While I maintain both businesses right now, I’ve experienced that selling services are far different from
Hi, I'm Anthony
Marsilio!
I welcome you to my online home.
I’m a 24 year old Massachusetts native, recently relocated to Austin, Texas to immerse myself in a new environment and try new things.
This online home will be a place to explore and tinker with ideas. My interests range from reading, technology, cryptocurrencies, business/finance to philosophy, human behavior and the metaphysical.
This site serves as a digital home for all of my ideas and daily thoughts. I hope you enjoy!
Blogs
My primary way of exploring ideas is through long-form blogs. I’ll be working through new ideas and unpacking a wide variety of subjects weekly. Click below to access a list of my blog posts!
A Digital Home
What do I mean?
It’s no secret the digital world is exploding. Over the past decade, everything from financial services, mobile application consumption, communication, and dating has been digitized. I’m fascinated by the Internet’s effect on the world, and this is my digital home to explore everything and anything that comes to mind related to the world around us!
POSTS
My Experience Selling Goods on Amazon
I’ve created two legitimate businesses to date. One primarily focused on selling goods, one primarily focused on selling a service. Let me reflect on my experience selling goods: I sell
Why I Quit my Job
I quit my job two months ago today. Since then, I’ve sent over a thousand cold emails, combed through 1500 e-commerce websites finding leads, and tapped into my network to
The Spider Web of Learning
Learning is the highest leverage skill humans can acquire. Learning is reading books, trying new jobs, buying courses, spending money on information, meeting people, and experimenting with new environments. All
50 Years of Self-Actualization
A select percentage of humans are going to live extraordinarily long, happy, fulfilled and productive lives. In our modern world, rapid wealth creation is somewhat becoming the norm. Whether it’s
Spare Change?
Change is good. Change is necessary. Change is a critical element of life. Paradoxically, human beings have an aversion to change. We don’t like change. You might ask yourself why
Generation Internet
I love my generation. I’m extremely grateful to be a part of such an interesting generation experiencing unprecedented societal growth and change. It cannot be overstated how important the internet
What I learned Being Unemployed for Four Months
My first experience with extended boredom was between June 2020 – October 2020. My entire team had been laid off due to COVID on June 1 unexpectedly. At the time,
Investment Exit-Strategy Optimization
Imagine there was a firm that optimized one’s investment exit strategy? I’ve been thinking about how I plan on exiting some cryptocurrency investment positions, and it’s a difficult plan to
The Freedom North Star
Freedom is the number one goal in my life, and has been for over two years now. Freedom is my North Star. Freedom to do anything, go anywhere, buy what
The WFH Generation
Written from Cosmic Coffee in Austin, Texas. There are roughly 100 people outside here buzzing away on their laptops. It’s a beautiful, warm day today and Cosmic Coffee offers some
Finding Time
The most important thing us humans can do is focus on ourselves. This can mean endless things – reading books, picking up a hobby, learning a skill, a language —
Mental Programming
Aristotle said “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Applied to conscious thought, we are what we repeatedly think about. Coming of
The Digitization of Value
Digital value surrounds us. Cloaked by mainstream corporatization and pop culture, underlying our smartphones and internet usage is trillions of dollars in digital value. One of my longtime favorite artists,
How Fear Influences Reality
Fear influences a vast majority of our decision making. It’s not our fault – it’s an evolutionarily gifted trait that us humans inherited. Fear is the vehicle by which we
3 Ways to Become a Better Communicator
Human beings are social creatures. Yet, we’re never really taught how to effectively communicate with each other outside of being in social environments. We basically rely on instinct. Quite odd
Why Credentials Don’t Matter
Credentials no longer matter unless you’re a doctor, lawyer, or any other highly specialized, highly trained professional. I don’t know about you, but I probably wouldn’t want a doctor operating
3 Things I learned growing an Amazon Business from $0-$230k in 12 Months
I began selling on Amazon in August of 2020. In 12 months, I cleared $230,000 in sales. It’s very easy to look at top line revenue and think things are
Information Overload
For the first time in human history, we’re in a constant state of information consumption. Throughout history, we’ve consumed information physically – body language is information, inflection is information, actions
How to Carefully Curate your Social Media Feeds
I didn’t care about my social media feeds until age 20. Junior year of college, I made a conscious choice to better my life and the first place I started
Online Entrepreneurship
It’s no secret: there are countless ways to make money online. For the ambitious, curious person willing to learn, the possibilities are endless. I’ve had this idea of a “Side-Hustle
The Side Hustle Directory
A place where side hustles are discovered through personality type. It’s no secret there’s thousands of ways to make money online. The omnipresent question is “what should I do?” There
Guesswork
Predicting the future is fun. I find great joy attempting to accurately predict the future. We all do it, some more than others, but part of life is preparing for
Be a Generalist
I’m a generalist. I know a bit about a wide variety of topics. I’m interested in money, finance, business, startups, while also being extremely interested in human behavior, masculinity/femininity, art,
Creating
We have to try things. We have to create stuff. We have to produce. Anything good that’s ever happened in my life is a function of producing things. I got
My Childhood Gaming Addiction
I was a gamer as a child. Heavily addicted to video games from age 8-13. As I reflect back on my time spent playing video games, I see boundless similarities
Say Yes More
One thing I’d tell my younger self is to say yes more. Say yes to more opportunities and more experiences. Saying no is a powerful tool when used correctly, but
The Subjectivity of Money
Money spent on one’s interests and wellbeing is never money wasted. All of us are taught how to save and invest properly, but not how to spend properly. I’ve long
Finding Space
As a self-proclaimed introvert, finding space for myself is critical. I’ve leaned into being an introvert, and at this point in my life fully embrace it. For some odd reason,
How I Lost $11,000 at Age 21
Just under three years back, my girlfriend and I got involved in affiliate marketing. We dove in hard and fast, without thinking twice. Jill and I were driving when she
Smoothie Subscription Service (SSS)
E-comm a subscription smoothie delivery service. Hear me out! Everybody loves smoothies. Okay, most people love smoothies. If there’s something I’ve observed over the past year and a half, it’s
Feeling Good
I love Monday mornings. I love every morning to be honest, because I make the conscious choice to be happy, motivated, and excited for the day ahead of me. Along
A Compounded Life
Habits compound, ideas compound, behaviors compound, and certainly success compounds. It all compounds year after year. Month after month. Day after day. Everything that we repeatedly do compounds in dramatic
Time
All we have is time. It’s the only non-renewable asset us human beings have. And honestly, it’s quite comforting knowing that we can do whatever we want with our time
Getting Rich Young
I’m basically obsessed with getting rich. Money isn’t my goal, and by rich I don’t mean financially rich. I mean time rich. Money is simply the mechanism by which we
My First Business Failure
My first business idea was Daily Vibrations the playlists. This must’ve been early or mid-2018 and at the time, I thought it was genius. I’d create playlists for all moods
Production vs. Consumption
A powerful mindset shift that occurred to me in early 2019 was this idea of consumption vs. production. In our digital world, every person with access to the internet has
How Reading Changed my Life (Pt. 1 of Infinity)
I was the average 20 year old kid who scoffed anytime books were mentioned. “What bro? Reading? I’ve read like two books in the past 5 years hahaha” My perspective
Unplug
Disconnecting from the online world is one of the best things we can do for our mental health, yet it’s incredibly hard to do. I’m always contemplating what’s happening around
The Creator Economy
It’s no secret creators or influencers are here to stay. Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed an explosion in the sheer number of humans who’ve amassed a following online, and
The Information Diet
The information diet. Arguably as important as the physical diet. What do I mean by an “information diet”? Well, an information diet is simply the information we consume. Whether this
Ready Player One (Major Spoiler Alert)
Ready Player One is a riveting futuristic sci-fi book written by Ernest Cline in 2011. With over 39,000 reviews, a 4.7 rating on Amazon, and a major motion picture
Morning
I’m a morning person. There, I said it. I haven’t always been a morning person, but let me explain. Throughout the majority of my life, I’ve been an afternoon/night person.
Why I Write
Why do I want to write here? Well, that’s a fantastic question one may ask. Let’s dive into it a bit. I view writing as kin to reading. Reading is
NFT’s As Achievements
Thought experiment surrounding NFT’s: In the future, there will be some sort of social network surrounding NFT’s, or a publicly available and viewable wallet that holds all of your tokenized
On Creativity
I thought about this the other day – where does creativity come from? It’s a trillion dollar question to be honest but in my experience creativity comes from a healthy
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