Despite what you've been told, passion alone won't pay the bills—neither does hard work.
You get paid when you solve expensive problems for expensive people.
Despite what you've been told, passion alone won't pay the bills—neither does hard work. You get paid when you solve expensive problems for expensive people.
How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think | Kalzumeus Software
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know that business is the modern vessel for living with purpose. It only makes sense to monetize what you master with the vast resources available to you in this developed point in civilization.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
if you're insanely talented at something but nobody gets it, it's worth paying someone who's insanely talented at marketing/comms to translate, frame, package that talent into something that people appreciate

Already today,” he observed at the time, “no matter what you do, the money you receive is more and more likely to track the recognition that comes to you for doing what you do. If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself you won't get noticed, and that increasingly means you won't get paid much either.”&n... See more