{"id":13575,"date":"2026-05-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13575"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:03:56","slug":"the-churning-lifecycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/the-churning-lifecycle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Churning Lifecycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grizzled churners who\u2019ve been around the hobby for a long time have a well defined  Krebs cycle-esque cycle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Newbie: \u201cI can get $300 from this Disney card if I put all my bills on it for a few months\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beginner: \u201cLook, ma, I bought a money order\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intermediate: \u201c$20,000 minimum spend? I got that\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advanced: \u201cI could probably turn this in to a full time gig\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chaos: \u201cI ran nine figures through Big Bank #2 for 0.25% profit, and now my accounts and the plays are donezo, it\u2019s time for a long break\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The best ones in the hobby get stuck somewhere between Advanced and Degenerate. The worst ones blow up a good thing for a lot of people and end up as beginners in a few years when the spoils are all consumed. At least they skip the newbie stage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whats the point of this discussion? Strive to be stuck between Advanced and Chaos &#8211; it\u2019s ok to stop short of <a href=\"https:\/\/villains.fandom.com\/wiki\/Chaos_(mythology)#:~:text=Chaos%20is%20the%20first%20principle%20of%20existence,primordial%20void%20from%20which%20all%20things%20emerged.\">the birthplace of creation<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a nice day friends!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_3645-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13680\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_3645-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_3645-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_3645-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_3645-1320x1760.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_3645.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Degenerate manufactured spenders, but as road painters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grizzled churners who\u2019ve been around the hobby for a long time have a well defined Krebs cycle-esque cycle: The best ones in the hobby get<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13682,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575\/revisions\/13682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}