It typically takes me 2-3 hours for a well written ~1500 word post. These posts get 3k / mth organic views and many subscribers to my email list, so I know they perform well.
Spending an order of magnitude more time on each post seems ridiculous to me.
The goal is to answer the question or problem as best as you can.
Typically this means not just giving a one line answer, but expanding and elaborating, going into relevant details and explaining more in-depth.
Often this extra detail will overlap with extra detail from other questions. You can link between articles, but you can also rephrase / repeat ideas.
eg. If you're searching for "Redirect in javascript" or "Simulate link in Javascript", you'll want two separate articles.
You know that the answer is the same for both, but the searcher doesn't. And as you go more in-depth explaining how `window.location` works, you'll end up covering similar material in both articles (which is not duplicate content so Google won't penalize you).
I am always blown away by this stuff, but it still applies some distortion to the image in a way that feels slightly unnatural.
It's similar to the effect that changing focal length on a camera has. eg. Wider angle lenses seem to squish far away objects and enlarge closer objects. However, this affects the entire image in a consistent way whereas changing focal length does not.
I wonder if this could be used to simulate focal length changes?
You can, but that doesn't mean that it's going to be a cake walk. Just because you are trying to rent out a property doesn't mean it will be rented out.
That's all I was getting at in my poorly constructed reply.
This only makes sense if you are planning on using that money in the near term (< 5 years from now).
Like you say, timing the market is a bad idea, and that is what you are doing if you try to move to "safer" assets when you "think" the market will go bad.
If you keep your assets in riskier stocks (which have higher long-term returns) for more than a decade, you may take a huge hit during a recession, but you'll come out the other end way ahead than if you try to time the market.
This is a great post on what to focus on if you're trying to make a cash-flow business out of building apps.
I especially like the idea of not just looking for competitors, but trying to figure out why they are successful, and making sure that they don't have some advantage that you can't replicate.
I think that "passive income" is a misnomer, or at least, not very useful. I find it more helpful to think in hourly rates, since you're always putting in time for something.
If you spend 100 hours setting up a website, and over the next 5 years you never touch it and you make some money, some would consider that "passive". But really, you put in 100 hours, and made $x from it.
I think people are really looking for high ratio of money to time spent, not something that is truly "passive".
For #6, are you storing checklists in Evernote as well? Just reading through GTD right now, is this to replace the "Weekly Review" concept in the book so it is automated?
I'm looking to implement a GTD-like system myself, and any automation is helpful.
I hope you learn something from it.
I'd love to know what you think about this question, where my reasoning doesn't make sense, and any other feedback you might have.