Martin Durran
@martindurran
Google Ads Specialist and Consultant, Orthodox Christian ☦️, Digital Nomad, South African 🇿🇦.
Boomers think marriage and birth rates are collapsing because young guys play video games and have soft handshakes lol
Less popular countries offer better value for money, more investing people, and more unique experiences.
Please keep going to Zermatt, Lago di Braies, Chamonix, Grindelwald & spending hours in line for a picture that’s been taken ten million times before I’ll take the other countries for half the price with 1/10th the tourists thank you🇦🇹🇩🇪
this dude bought a 100 BTC gold Casascius bar back in 2011 for $500 and then finally cashed out the seed phrase this year ten million dollars profit lol insane lore
A Greek chants the "Hymn to the Theotokos" (Υπερμάχω Στρατηγώ) inside the Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, in front of the Turks.
Saint John of Kronstadt would pray in English. ☦️ Few people know that Saint John of Kronstadt, one of the most revered Russian saints of the 19th century, not only served in Kronstadt & provided spiritual guidance to thousands, but also studied the English language - and…
Mel Gibson spotted at the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Hilandar. 🇷🇸☦️🇺🇸 "I’ve never felt such a strong connection with God anywhere like I did here."
Boomers have decided to destroy the world before they pass on.
There’s a quiet revolution happening. People are quitting cities, rejecting the rat race, and choosing a better life over convenience. It's a multi billion $ movement. Here’s a breakdown of the Alt-Living Market (and why it’s the future):
I am getting SO tired of these posts from influencers: “We literally cloned an N billion-dollar company in 20 minutes with {vibe coding tool}. This changes the game forever.” No, you didn’t “clone” a billion-dollar business. You created a landing page similar to it. That’s all.
Most people I know who became successful had a main job going and then they made one or many side projects Then one took off and when that side project made more money than the main job and was stable (like 6 months) they quit the main job I've only once seen anyone succeed on…
i have rarely seen people make good business decisions when having a really limited amount of runway left everything becomes a panic move
A personal brand is really the only thing that will survive outside the new AI world.
Similarly Tinder's business is not dating, it's creating the fantasy of dating
Duolingo´s business is not learning, is the fantasy of learning.
Elon Musk was right when he said take your 10 year goals and try to do them in the next six months. Even if you fail, this is the correct mindset that wins.
You need 3 habits. One that builds your mind (reading, learning, journaling). One that builds your body (gym, running, nutrition). One that builds your money (business, skill dev, investing). Anything more is a bonus, anything less is self-destructive.
🚨 BREAKING: Google just turned Gemini into an AI operating system. At I/O 2025, they launched a full suite of tools that go way beyond chat. Here’s what just dropped and it’s wild: 🧵👇
Grab a notebook. Write out exactly what you want in your future, don't miss a detail. Then, break it down into goals. Decades, years, months, weeks, and days. Every day, write down the 3 levers you can move to create your vision. Then, forget about the goals and execute.
🇿🇦A government that doesn’t make money, but instead borrows it, or simply takes it from those who work to buy votes from those who don’t, will perpetuate dependency, entrench inequality and eventually go broke and lose power🇿🇦