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Hello, my name is Douglas and I am a regular dude. I am not a young financial genius who made $20 gazilion dollars by the time he was 13. In fact, I am not all that young.So why bother reading this? Well, maybe my journey will be interesting.Over the last few years I have been financially educating myself – learning to budget, learning the basics of investment and learning to be frugal. It’s been worth while so far, but I now realize I must face what I feel to be an even more daunting task. Learning to earn money outside of the standard 9 to 5 job.Why? I want to grow and diversify and also minimize my risk in what I feel is an increasingly turbulent and chaotic world. By learning to hustle I hope to increase my wealth but more important increase my adaptability.Now when I say risk, a lot of you think disruptive technology trends like AI, automation, the dying of retail and self-driving cars.I agree, I definitely think that is an issue – however, I think there is an important piece missing – the environmental crisis such as climate change, increasing amount of plastic in the water and crashing insect populations.Once we thought of this in a very disconnected, non-self interested manner – kind of like finding a $100 bill on the street – should I do the right thing and turn the money in? It’s an abstract discussion in some ways because we wouldn’t link it to our welfare in most cases.However, at this stage, the environmental crisis has progressed so far that it is actually impacting people now. People houses are flooding because of increasing extreme weather, increasing cost of water and food are eating up our budgets.We can no longer discuss the environment crisis and its impact as an abstract “doing the right thing” debate. It’s now become a “I’ve got to save my ass” kind of issue.And for that reason, I want to bring that into my discussion. So join me as I navigate the turbulent trends of tech, economy and environment to build a better future.