added by Tom Critchlow · updated 2y ago
How to find portfolio/audience fit
- Finding this sort of internal power is an individual art to master and probably will not be clear when you first start creating online. When people start putting themselves out there fully, they are at peak uncertainty and crave a roadmap. As I like to say, don’t find a niche, find a mode or a state you can keep showing up in.
from The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳 by Paul Millerd
Jay Matthews added
- Most lists of tips you can find about growing a publication or micro-media and finding “1000 true fans” will say at some point “find your niche,” “you need a niche,” “it’s important to know what your niche is,” or some variation. Which seems to lead to a similar conclusion as generalists: that more and more people value a multi-domain “hyphenated” ... See more
from Generalists by Patrick Tanguay
Keely Adler added
Four steps: choose a field, learn enough to get to the frontier, notice gaps, explore promising ones. This is how practically everyone who's done great work has done it, from painters to physicists.
from How to Do Great Work