The Meta-Creator Ceiling

As independent creators carve out a new career path for themselves, I suspect that some are unintentionally picking a path that limits their growth and robs the world of their true potential.

Assume you will be successful at whatever game you play. Are you playing a game worth winning?

How many should be teaching people how to succeed instead of just succeeding in their own way?

But I write for reason two: the sneaking suspicion that even if you win and are top of the heap at the Meta-Creator game, you are still limiting yourself from what you could be doing with your life. What the people you actually look up to are doing with theirs. What the world could be benefiting from if the greatest minds of our generation just app... See more

Perhaps some definitions are in order: A “Meta-Creator” is someone who creates content about creating, instead of just creating.

To quote the always-brilliant Philip Kiely: “First you do X, then you make content about doing X, then you make content about that content… One day you realize you haven’t done X for six months. And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction.”