Smart Threads and Dumb Memes | Trung Phan on Infinite Loops with Jim O’Shaughnessy • Podcast Notes
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Smart Threads and Dumb Memes | Trung Phan on Infinite Loops with Jim O’Shaughnessy • Podcast Notes
Building collective organizations as 'mids' to hedge against randomness and create sustainable success beyond individual content creation
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Now, imagine the following situation. What if you formed an organization with 10 or maybe 100 other people, and here's how this works. You're going to cooperate together in that you're all going to brand yourselves collectively, like as if you were a band or a magazine or a sports club or something.
You're creating this thing, and that's the mid. A
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How to build a content machine that works for you 24/7:
A content machine is peace of mind in case you get laid off, need to find customers, want to build something people love or want feedback on an idea
It's your own version of Jeff Bezos’ acquisition of The Washington Post. Your own... See more
Unpredictable success of online writing, compounding “marinated” ideas, and obsessive hobbyist passion versus audience-metric capture.
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What's funny about it, maybe just like a thought about writing effort in general, like writing on the internet really feels like constantly playing some kind of mysterious roulette game. I think Venkatesh Rao kind of describes it as like in the same way, like with your investments, you don't want to time the market. And you just kind of
... See moreMany of us are wired to look at work as something that should produce monetary rewards. Or at least with writing, some amount of attention, or new followers. But on the internet, sustained attention may take years to materialize, if at all. And too many people are focused on short-term followers instead of the genuine credibility that can come from... See more