Six economies of online creators

1 @ $100k /yr — Professional economy: aka jobs, what the rest of us are avoiding 😁

100 @ $1k / yr — Passion economy: Online courses, coaching/tutoring

1k @ $100 / yr — Fan economy: patrons, subscription newsletters/content

10k @ $10 / yr — Gig economy: e-books, drop shipping, transactional gigs

100k @ $1 / yr — Influencer economy: ads, micropayments, affiliates

Tech giants getting too big and too focused on regulation to focus on solving niche problems

Acceleration of stronger cultural norms of online interaction developed during the pandemic (if you'll attend a Zoom wedding, why not a Zoom class?)

An unbundling of online social spaces and a retreat to the cozy web, which has resulted in a blossoming of niche creative communities

Widely available open-source software, scalable infrastructure, app and web frameworks, and full stack micro-SaaS for operating a business — what Tyler Tringas calls "the Peace Dividend of the SaaS Wars"