This curated list provides recommended resources such as tools, books, courses, and platforms to support your journey in side hustles, personal finance, and artificial intelligence.
Side Hustles Resources
Platforms
- Upwork: For freelancers offering a wide range of services.
- Fiverr: Great for offering micro-services and creative gigs.
- Etsy: Ideal for selling handmade goods, vintage items, and craft supplies.
- Shopify: For building your own e-commerce store to sell products.
- Amazon FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon): For selling physical products with Amazon handling storage and shipping.
- Teachable/Kajabi: For creating and selling your own online courses or digital products.
Books
- “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss: Explores lifestyle design and automating income.
- “Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days” by Chris Guillebeau: A practical guide to launching a profitable side project.
- “The $100 Startup” by Chris Guillebeau: Focuses on turning passions into profitable microbusinesses.
Courses & Learning
- Udemy/Coursera/Skillshare: Platforms offering courses on various skills like graphic design, web development, digital marketing, copywriting, and more.
- YouTube Tutorials: Free resources for learning almost any skill.
- Local Community College/Workshops: Practical, hands-on training for specific trades or skills.
Tools
- Trello/Asana: Project management tools to organize your tasks and workflows.
- FreshBooks/Wave: Invoicing and accounting software for managing your side hustle finances.
- Canva: Easy-to-use graphic design tool for creating marketing materials.
- Zoom/Google Meet: For client meetings and online consultations.
Personal Finance Resources
Tools & Apps
- Mint: Budgeting and financial tracking app.
- YNAB (You Need A Budget): Budgeting software focused on giving every dollar a job.
- Personal Capital: For tracking investments and overall net worth.
- Fidelity/Vanguard: Reputable platforms for investing in mutual funds, ETFs, and retirement accounts.
- Robinhood/M1 Finance: User-friendly platforms for stock and ETF investing.
Books
- “The Total Money Makeover” by Dave Ramsey: A step-by-step plan for getting out of debt and building wealth.
- “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki: Challenges traditional views on money and investing.
- “The Simple Path to Wealth” by JL Collins: A straightforward guide to investing and financial independence.
- “I Will Teach You To Be Rich” by Ramit Sethi: Practical advice on automating finances, investing, and earning more.
Courses & Learning
- Khan Academy: Free courses on personal finance, economics, and investing.
- Coursera/edX: University-level courses on finance, economics, and investment strategies.
- Financial Advisors: Consider consulting a certified financial planner for personalized advice.
Platforms
- Betterment/Wealthfront: Robo-advisors that automate investment management based on your goals and risk tolerance.
- Local Banks/Credit Unions: For checking, savings, and loan products.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resources
Tools
- ChatGPT (OpenAI): A powerful language model for text generation, summarization, and more.
- Google Bard/Gemini: Google’s conversational AI for various tasks.
- Midjourney/DALL-E (OpenAI): AI art generators for creating images from text prompts.
- Grammarly AI: AI-powered writing assistant for grammar, style, and tone.
- Jasper/Copy.ai: AI copywriting tools for marketing content.
- GitHub Copilot: AI pair programmer for code suggestions.
Books
- “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” by Max Tegmark: Explores the future of AI and its impact on humanity.
- “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” by Nick Bostrom: Discusses the implications of advanced AI.
- “AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order” by Kai-Fu Lee: Examines the AI race between the US and China.
- “Deep Learning” by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville: A comprehensive textbook on deep learning.
Courses & Learning
- Coursera (Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng): A highly-regarded series of courses on deep learning.
- Coursera (AI for Everyone by Andrew Ng): A non-technical introduction to AI.
- Udemy/edX: Numerous courses on machine learning, data science, and AI development.
- Google AI: Resources, courses, and tools directly from Google’s AI team.
- fast.ai: Practical deep learning for coders.
- Hugging Face: Resources and courses for natural language processing (NLP) and transformers.
Platforms & Frameworks
- TensorFlow (Google): An open-source machine learning framework.
- PyTorch (Facebook AI): Another popular open-source machine learning framework.
- Hugging Face: A hub for pre-trained models, datasets, and tools for NLP.
- Google Cloud AI Platform/AWS AI/ML/Azure Machine Learning: Cloud-based platforms for building, deploying, and managing AI models.
- Kaggle: A platform for data science and machine learning competitions, datasets, and notebooks.
