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I started in 2017 with selling collectible art online, onboarding artists, selling printable copies, and sharing royalties. I scaled this into an on-demand printing platform while still in my third year of college, printing certificates, banners, t-shirts, and flex boards for the college and other businesses. I also started listing products on marketplaces while fulfilling B2B bulk merchandise orders.
Everything was flowing—I felt like I had cracked it. I was spending money as if it didn't exist, going on multiple trips for the first time, and felt proud doing it with my own money. I was experiencing the rush of extreme focus until late 2019, when multiple bulk orders (which I was outsourcing) went sideways with no support from my vendor,
I had to bear all the refunds myself. On top of that, my Amazon seller account got suspended for selling counterfeit products—something I was unaware of, as it's a trade violation on many levels—so it couldn't be reinstated.
To take a break, I started intoxicating myself, which ended up hyping me back into focus and worked in my favor. During the lockdown, I started a cloud kitchen with my own app built on the Ontabe SaaS platform, beginning with 1–2 orders a day by running Facebook ads.
I soon realized I couldn't sustain it due to the inventory planning required, so I began developing a CMS platform where I started selling Facebook courses, posted a lot of content, received good feedback, and sold a few courses as well. However, it wasn't something I truly wanted to do, so I packaged my skills into services and started working on freelance projects.
This went well from late 2020 till 2023, during which I worked for about 50 companies across India, Africa, the UK, the US, and Dubai for industries such as Healthcare, SaaS Products, Fitness Clubs, E-commerce, FMCG, Food & Beverage, Marketing Agencies, and Education.
It wasn't all—I started options trading in Bank Nifty because not knowing how financial markets work was killing me from inside every day. I had this urge to learn it and do it myself, where I started making losses. My freelance projects would get done but not get paid, which left me broke, and I had to work as a full-time Marketing Manager. This was also something I wanted to do—to experience the growth I could drive for a company if I worked there long-term.
So I joined a Parking Solutions Company and worked there for over two years. By the end of 2025, I had built enough wealth, and the company wanted to lay off staff as well, so I planned to get into full-time trading. September 1st was my last working day, and I managed to make good profits in XAUUSD and BTCUSD, but also lost every possible penny by the end of December.
Yes, that's how quickly it all ended. I had to sell my printing machines, car, and every last appliance to survive, lost that money as well, over and over. So I took a break for two weeks, went back to my hometown to do some reflection, and returned to Bangalore by December, leading life under divine grace with no I, ME OR MINE, everything has become "Just there".
Well this was one aspect of how life has been, I'll write other stories over time at different sections of this scrapbook, it's called BINSKI, where you'd find me embracing flaws and beauty in life, just like how a butterfly has a 4 weeks lifespan and half of which is living in uncertainty, caterpillars hanging from the trees, not knowing it's survival, but it keep pushing until it turns into an adult butterfly ready to shine it's wings, living the next 2 weeks gloriously, just like that, I'm not in hurry to become superhuman without going through it's phases.
As the butterfly beholds the beauty of its own fleeting life, on the distant side, the moon—ever luminous, ever giving—spills its silver light upon all, withholding nothing.
Even the butterfly too feels drawn to the moon, expanding her horizon, just as you and I at times find ourselves caught by the bright smiley face at night into the dark, moon gazing.
She aims for the moon, hovers by Mars—and Mars, in a tender red glow, waves at her, calling her "Hey Martian."What a gentle, cosmic exchange—
a flutter meeting a cratered smile,
a sky-bound heart finding a friend in the stars is all about BINSKI 🙂 know that you're complete, shining and loving, embracing own's flaws, patient as a drifting boat through the storm finding its shore.
Things I enjoyed doing
Now I feel, its okay to do things but more importantly to be comfortable/peaceful without doing things that involves material dynamism in it - if you notice the chase never ends, and it just makes us mechanical, like our senses having all control than our conscious decisions, संकल्प > विकल्प
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Life does change, it makes you suffer more
By opening up your dimensions you were never aware of then everything else feels purposeless
Until next phase
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Little bit on the fun side....
07.22.2024
Manoranjan
