gave his perspective on which up and coming cleantech companies should be covered and which shouldn’t, along with other thoughts about writing
In this article, I want to be brutally honest about why I’m a terrible source for financial advice, why I still cover these “dead end” companies, and what other things I’m probably worth listening to about. Finally, I’ll talk a bit about press releases and the idea that ChatGPT is going to eat my lunch .First off, let’s be crystal clear that I’m a terrible source of financial advice. I live in a trailer in New Mexico, one of the most poor and unstable states in the union.
My doctors have helped me greatly improve my health over the last few years, but now I have to clean up all of the fallout from bad decisions and low effort from a time when I wasn’t performing like I should. My credit score still starts with a 6, but it’s on the way up and it’s almost in the 700s. I’ve learned a lot, but I’m not going to pretend that I know enough to give people advice even at the household level because I’m still figuring this stuff out for myself.
When I write about companies like Aptera, Sion Motors, and Arcimoto, the goal isn’t to paint a good investment with a laser so you can call your broker and order a financial airstrike. The goal is to give you information that you then choose to use as you see fit both now and later.There are two reasons I continue to cover these longshot companies, even though many of them will probably fail in the long run.
In other words, I write about these things because they will make you happy. We all need more happiness. It’s also worth pointing out that Tesla used to be one of these longshot companies. More mainstream automotive blogs ran “Tesla Deathwatch” articles. Nobody worth their salt in finance would have told you that all-in investing in them in 2008 was a fantastic idea. But Tesla survived and defied the odds.
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