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How does it feel to make a bulk of your money off of motivational speaking and a biography that you had published in your 20s? Boiled down...you realize that you're a marketer that can write apps...right?

I like to see people make money, but not when they're drawing people in who want advice to become motivated and/or generate more income for themselves by listening to someone who made money off of phone applications...

How many apps have you had published in the last two years that have taken off and done really well? Can you post a link to how many of each app have been purchased by phone/tablet users and the total sales amount? Let's make it three years to make things look better.

I imagine none of this will be addressed as you can see how that will go for you.

The reason you don't see comments like this is because it is filled with young people commenting who want to know what code you learned first, how they can motivate themselves, technical questions even, etc.

They're people who don't realize that writing apps today is far different than the years around 2010. Back then you could write an app in your basement and make a million dollars plus by the end of the year if it was a hit. Now you need money just to make a proper app, people expect the app to look pretty, whereas back then...it just needed to have a great function. If it did something that you didn't have to...the app was awesome to you. Now you often need funding or at least one partner who can work on the app as well...it becomes a business. The app market wasn't as saturated as it is now. Not even close. If you're app doesn't take off and end up at the top of the charts...no one will ever see it. There's just too many.

I'm glad you did really well for yourself with apps, motivational speeches, seminars and your biography...but you're telling people that they can do stuff...that is no longer possible due to market saturation and funding. Apps are developed like videos games now. It is not small time stuff. The hit apps these days always come from several people collaborating or an established business. They even advertise them on tv. That's pretty definitive of what I am saying. How can one person compete against a conglomerate that can afford to produce an app AND advertise it on national television? We're about the same age. The thought that an app would ever be advertised on tv was laughable back then. A totally outlandish thought. But not now. Not in this market and financial world.

If you want to be like Allen Wong in the current world/times, you need to have a fair amount of money to begin with. If you think otherwise, you are very naive. People like him are a dime a dozen. They may not have had as tough of a life, but their goals and techniques are the same.

This reminds me of jordan belfort after he ran out of ways to make as much money as he was pulling in at his peak.

Hey OP, I'm glad you made this AMA. Don't pay attention to people saying words like "retarded" or asking for proof. This is not the sort of thing someone would fake for an AMA.

If anyone wants his proof, all I can say is that I have never been able to find a support group...I know one other person who has one and we don't really talk anymore...but nearly everything that the OP is saying hits home hard with me.

You'll be ok, OP. It takes time. We're the same age. On Christmas eve it will be four years since my accident. It was also due to a car accident like your own. I also have issues with smell and taste. Texture has become an issue with food as you mentioned as well. I have a serious mood disorder now and have am not interested in much. I don't have dreams anymore either. Every few months I'll have two or three nights in a row of dreams, but they're always retched nightmares. I have a hard time coordinating my left and right side of my body as well. The list goes on, but I'll save it.

I'm not writing in with my own issues for fun, I'm just trying prove a point that OP is not bullshitting. It is clear due to the way he is writing.

I have a few things to do with Massachusetts and police work. Without a doubt, all things considered, they are probably one of the best police forces in the US and people should be learning from them. From internal policies to how they conduct themselves on the street. I have a degree from UMass in CJ and they beat community policing into our heads. Some of the worst cities in the state put cops out on the street and they go around on foot in ghettos. By themselves often, too.

You rarely see something about a wrongful shooting or things about beatings here, too. And that shit doesn't slide. Massachusetts police departments love their whistle blowers.

Then why did you respond to an thread of comments about missing a frontal lobe??

Doctors don't make a hell of a lot there in comparison. That's what happens with socialism. If you go to big hospitals in large eastern US cities, you'll see so many doctors from Europe. And you'll see a lot of patients too. From Canada as well if you live in northern parts of the US. Loads of people come here because of wait times for surgeries/govt. saying they don't need the surgery. Especially children's hospitals. I had a kidney issue for two years when I was younger and at least a quarter of the patients must have been foreigners.