Antonio Tropiano

So basically to earn 50k in Italy you gotta be Andrej Karpathy I hope I get an interview to just laugh in their faces

📚 I made $1.8k gross ($800 profit) publishing books in June New blog! www.tropianhs.com/diary/2026/...

I wrote a best-selling book about Quantum Physics for Beginners last year The ebook is free for the next 5 days Check it out if you care

I made $1240 last month by selling books Planning to write 6 more books and reach $2k profit by the end of the year PS: I wrote 11 books but only 4 or 5 of them are selling, Pareto law in action

Quietly made $1k gross royalties this month That was my 2026 goal I never exceeded my goals What do I do now?

I smile every time Can't get used to nice reviews

Happy Easter From me and Yuri

Just deleted my Premium subscription after 2+ years If you are not marketing on the platform, it's just not worth it I prefer to spend it on other tools that don't suck my time and instead save me time

March Monthly Target excedeed $1k month coming soon!

Just published my 3rd book of 2026 This one took me a very long time to make Exhausted but happy about the result Fingers crossed now

Strategizing my next publishing moves Big Quarter ahead

I have already broken my ambitious target for March And there are still 10 days left until the end of the month Could maybe break the $900 mark which would be huge Let's see!

Exactly 1 year ago I vowed to stop working on B2C ideas And the revenue from my side projects increased 4x since then But I didn't launch any B2B product I just doubled down on what was working So I guess B2C or B2B doesn't really matter What matters is focus

You are not unemployable because you like freedom You are unemployable because you lack discipline and switch context way too often Which might work well for entrepreneurship But in general it works badly

Just a reminder that if you have no ambitions Italy is the perfect place for you

Worked from my favourite cafe yesterday I swear I get more shit done in w hours here than in a week working from home Magical place

Controversial but I hate mortgages Most people I know find a job, get married and lock themselves in a mortgage for 30 years They can't leave their job, even if they hate it, and can't take risks for decades, in their most active years A house is not worth losing your freedom

I failed all my 2025 goals Wanted to get to $1k MRR, barely got to $200 Then I realized that I didn't need to find something new I just needed to double down on what was already working Now at $450 MRR and the $1k goal looks much closer now

I set a $400 target for February And I went beyond my expectations with $460 in royalties I'm almost halfway to my yearly target $1k/month Next month target $600 Gotta be ambitious

It ain't much but it's honest shitposting

I invested in the Russian market in 2021 I lost everyhting when tensions escalated It's the same with China now A little escalation and your broker will stop trading the assets And you lose all your money If you wanna diversify buy gold, silver, crypto

True story happened to me not long ago Senior Data Engineer interview with HR Freelance contract "What's your rate?" "400/day" "Oh no too expensive..." "What's your budget?" "150/day" "..." "Ok we tried" Guess the country

New book published Italian market only Very low competition niche Written 80% with AI $0 Production cost Took me 2-3 weeks of work almost every night I'm very tired but happy and hopeful for this one Now comes the hard part, marketing!

Big book order just arrived I don't know where to start from but probably will read 2 or 3 in parallel Btw already checked the Space Math one Dover never fails to deliver

Senior ML Engineer Milan vs Berlin Salary 2x more in Berlin If Europe is cooked then Italy is competely burned PS: don't tell me the cost of living is also 2x

Just finished to write another book Two books published this year so far On track for 10 books published in 2026 Sales are strong Learning every day Life is good

Italy has too many graduates? Too many graduates compared to the country’s economic system Which is a cross between an amusement park and a geriatrics ward Plus everybody thinks the country is the Eternal Guardian of World Culture, which doesn't help with innovation at all

Everybody thinks cooking is a waste of time Quite the opposite My best ideas come when I slow down and spend 1 hour cooking a nice meal Saves me a lot of wasted effort and helps me go in the right direction Best ROI of the day

Almost $200 in royalties this month And it's not even mid-February On course to $400 and a 12% increase over January Looking good

Italian job market in a nutshell