el nicho eres tú
owning your uniqueness
el nicho eres tú
today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to look more professional than you really were.
Today, the most interesting people I know are not only existing in difficult-to-define s... See more
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to look more professional than you really were.
Today, the most interesting people I know are not only existing in difficult-to-define s... See more
Alex Tan • #059 Environment Design
A succinct elevator pitch for your newsletter is much more marketable than being a whole person who communicates their ideas via blog. That said, some people, including me, market their blog as a publication dealing in existentialism and philosophy and the chronicles of life in the world today, which leaves room for your perspective to change as th... See more
Cydney Hayes • The elite capture of Substack
My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is mor
... See moreNoah Smith • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
In a sense, it’s the weird that is truly normal. It’s how people actually are, what they really care about, think about. So in a sense you’re getting them out of the weird. The weird is the stage presence we put on, and all the puffery and unwillingness to say what you really think, because my confirmation hearing, whatever. So once you stop seeing... See more
Tim Ferriss • 429 Too Many Requests
But squeezing yourself into a small, easily explainable cage you know you’ll quickly outgrow just to avoid the pain of struggling to explain who you are to other people is, in my opinion, just avoidance of facing your full potential.
concentration
I wanted an audience, but I also knew that having the wrong audience would be worse than having no audience, because they'd constrain me with their expectations, forcing me to focus on one tiny niche of my worldview at the expense of everything else, until I became a parody of myself.
It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what othe... See more
It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what othe... See more
Gurwinder • The Perils of Audience Capture
Por qué creo en crear una “fortaleza” alrededor de tu personalidad, tu perspectiva y tus ideas vs. elegir un nicho que te constriña y te convierta en cautivo del mismo.