A Smart Bear » It's a Torturous Chaos Until It Isn't
It’s generally much easier to be a creator today than ever.
But there’s one big reason I don’t envy the people getting started in their online-solopreneur-creating-things journey today:
Expectations.
I’ve been doing this for about a decade, and when I started, it was significantly harder to build an audience.
There were no highly optimized entertain... See more
But there’s one big reason I don’t envy the people getting started in their online-solopreneur-creating-things journey today:
Expectations.
I’ve been doing this for about a decade, and when I started, it was significantly harder to build an audience.
There were no highly optimized entertain... See more
Nat Eliason • It's Still a Long Game
A wooden puzzle One summer, I was at a coffee shop (more a shack, actually) in a town comprised of four buildings. While the owner was making my coffee, I noticed a bunch of wooden puzzles, the kind where you have to put the pieces together so they all fit back into the box – almost like 3D Tetris. Done incorrectly, the pieces don't fit and the box
... See morePaul Jarvis • Everything I Know
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
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and self-doubt—fear that maybe my work really wasn’t good enough, maybe I wasn’t smart enough; maybe the people telling me I couldn’t make it were right.”
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
I’m thinking about how many people were one or two iterations away from the right formula, but lacked the conviction to stay the course, the understanding that minor, subtle, successive changes can drastically influence outcome. I’m thinking about how self-doubt makes more people abandon a vision than competition or lack of funding ever will.