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I completely agree with this.

Generally, completely passive income is massively harder and more time intensive to generate than minimal-time-investment income (which is what Patrick suggests above). I have both completely passive and minimal-time-investment income sources, and the passive ones have been MUCH harder and longer work per dollar over the last few years.

Focus on optimising your $/hr (and your hr/month) rather than going for hr == 0 and you'll likely hit your goal much faster.



I had never read your story - very interesting. (Also cool that you're here on HN).

I first heard about Machinima in the Seananners' videos, and now they (you?) appear to be dominating the game market on Youtube. I was surprised the other day when a brazilian (talking in portuguese) had a Machinima affiliation in his video.


I'm genuinely curious how "passive income" is defined if it takes significantly more time.


You invest time up front, then reap the rewards. Residual income may be a better term for what most people call passive income.

Most of my income is residual, and I love it, but there was a big hump to get over at the start.


Thanks for the clarification. That makes sense to me :)




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