Boris Smirnoff

How to Escape the Corporate Prison

by Boris Smirnoff 08.18.2011
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So if you’re anything like me, once you got a taste of what life really has to offer (or at least what life outside the Western world really has to offer), you can’t get enough of it. You have one little problem, though: two weeks of vacation (or four to six if you live in [...]

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Inside a PUA Bootcamp with Badboy

by Boris Smirnoff 08.05.2011
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Several years ago I took a “workshop” or “bootcamp” from a PUA calling himself “Badboy.” Back when I took his bootcamp, he was charging about 2,000 EUR for a weekend course which consisted of just two and a half days of instruction. I decided to take the course because I had read The Game and also [...]

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Now is the Time to Move Abroad!

by Boris Smirnoff 08.03.2011
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So you’ve already escaped the corporate prison, you’ve implemented a 15 minute business plan and you’ve been doing a ton of traveling. You’re basically a LIP (location independent person), but for some reason your primary residence is still in the US or some other low bang for the buck lame ass Western country. Maybe you’ve [...]

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The Pickup Artist Scam

by Boris Smirnoff 07.28.2011
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Over the last ten years or so, an industry which has been becoming more and more mainstream is that of the “pickup artist” or “dating consultant.” The industry has been popularized by Neil Strauss’ excellent memoir, The Game and the VH1 show The Pick-Up Artist, featuring Mystery, probably the best known of these so called [...]

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The Single Dude’s Rules for Money

by Boris Smirnoff 07.26.2011
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At my and Charlie Bushmeister’s blog, Single Dude Travel, we think a lot about how to spend and make money well. Of course it’s good to have money. Lots and lots of it if possible. Making good money makes all of life easier because of all the other opportunities it opens for the single dude. But [...]

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