The best thing about this day and age is there are so many alternative ways to earn money. In a previous post I talked about how I was embracing the “Share Economy,” whereby you basically find a way to earn money with the “excess capacity” in the things you already own. A few posts ago I talked about leveraging the share economy to rent a room out in my house (think Airbnb and Craigslist), today I want to talk about my newest experiment with Lyft. Ride share apps like Lyft (and Uber) are disrupting the taxi business (and possibly other businesses in the transportation space). The app that each of these companies provide is easy to use and removes friction from …