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Articles by Adrian Mercer
Why Multitasking Is a Myth That’s Breaking Your Brain and Wasting Your Time
Why Multitasking Is a Myth That’s Breaking Your Brain and Wasting Your Time You might think you’re a great multitasker, but you’re not. There’s no such thing. Press enter or click to view image in full size AI-Generated When I was younger, I, like many young entrepreneurs, prided myself on being a master at multitasking. I thought I needed to be a strong multitasker to optimize efficiency and productivity at every moment.
The 4-Account System From My Book That Runs My Entire Financial Life
The 4-Account System From My Book That Runs My Entire Financial Life (Set Up in One Afternoon) Press enter or click to view image in full size Ai generated People assume financial control requires discipline. It doesn’t. It requires architecture. Discipline is you fighting your impulses every day and mostly losing; architecture is a structure that makes the right thing happen automatically while you think about literally anything else. This is the structure.
The Income Ladder: The 5 Levels Between Broke and Free
The Income Ladder: The 5 Levels Between Broke and Free (Find Yours in 2 Minutes) Press enter or click to view image in full size Most financial advice fails for a boring reason: it’s prescribed without a diagnosis. “Invest 20%!” is genius advice for one person and actively dangerous for another, and the difference is where they’re standing.
OncoMRD BREAST for Monitoring Minimal Residual Disease in Breast Cancer: A Megadata Large-Scale Retrospective Clinical Correlation Study
You are already at the latest version Background: ctDNA-based NGS MRD testing in breast cancer faces a critical but overlooked limitation: low-frequency somatic mutations from normal aging non-malignant tissues—beyond clonal hematopoiesis—contaminate plasma ctDNA at levels indistinguishable from true MRD signals, creating a specificity ceiling that increased sequencing depth cannot resolve.
Why Most People Will Never Escape Their 9–5 (Even If They Try)
Why Most People Will Never Escape Their 9–5 (Even If They Try) Here’s what actually works instead of motivation… Press enter or click to view image in full size Generated image by google. Not inspiration. Not another productivity hack. Not a new morning routine. Just truth. Most people will never escape their 9–5 life — even if they seriously try. And it’s not because they’re lazy. It’s because they misunderstand what “freedom” actually requires.
I Started Investing With $100. Here's What $100/Month Looks Like After 10 Years.
The first time I invested money, I transferred $100 into a brokerage account and sat there staring at the screen like I'd just defused a bomb. My heart was racing. Over a hundred dollars. I didn't come from money. Nobody in my family owned stocks. The word "portfolio" belonged to people in suits, not to a guy sitting in his apartment at midnight trying to figure out the difference between a mutual fund and an ETF. That was two and a half years ago. Since then, I've invested every single month.
How I Built $10K/Month in 14 Months — Every Layer, Every Dollar
How I Built $10K/Month in 14 Months — Every Layer, Every Dollar Three years ago I had $214 in my checking account and a psychology degree that wasn’t paying for itself. Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo illustration by Adrian Mercer Today I clear $10K/month. Sometimes more. Last month it was $12,400. I didn’t raise venture capital. I didn’t go viral. I didn’t inherit anything. What I did was build a stack — a combination of income sources and skills that compound on each other.
I Built a Crisis-Proof Money System After Going Broke. 4 Crises Later, It’s Never Failed.
The 6-Part Crisis-Proof Money System I call it The Protocol. Not because it sounds cool. Because that’s what it is — a sequence of steps I follow in exact order, every time the world panics. I don’t think about it. I don’t debate it. I just execute. Part 1: The 24-Hour Freeze When the news breaks, I do absolutely nothing with my money for 24 hours. Not because I’m calm. I’m not calm. Nobody is calm when they see missiles hitting a city they visited last year.
The Freelance Pricing Mistake That’s Costing You $40,000/Year
The 3 Pricing Tiers That Tripled My Income I don’t give one price anymore. I give three. Example for an email sequence project: Tier 1 — Essential ($1,800): 5-email sequence, 1 round of revisions, delivered in 10 days. Tier 2 — Growth ($2,800): 7-email sequence, 2 rounds of revisions, subject line A/B variants, delivered in 10 days. Tier 3 — Scale ($4,500): 7-email sequence, full onboarding audit, customer research interviews, 2 rounds of revisions, A/B variants, 30-day performance check-in.
You’re Bleeding $400/Month and Don’t Know It. Here’s Where.
The Subscription Graveyard Start here because it’s the easiest win. Open your bank statement. Right now. Count every recurring charge. I’ll wait.
Proposals to regulate NHS Managers: a consultation
“Ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure . . .” William McDonough The default response by government and commentators to scandals, inquiries, and other problems within the NHS is almost universally to demand more or tougher “regulation,” and a consultation currently underway now proposes the extension of regulation to NHS managers.
Donald Trump’s presidency has a disturbing parallel in the political career of Huey Long
Donald Trump is not the first American politician to achieve power through demagoguery and then to use that power for their own gain. Adrian Mercer looks back to the political career of Louisiana Governor, then Senator, Huey P Long. He writes that the parallels between Trump and Long are striking: both won elected office by presenting themselves as outsiders promoting reform, and both supported the established order once they gained power.
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