Reminders for myself

New habit to form is to read 20 pages a day and think for 10 minutes. Goal is to reach after a few months 50 pages a day and 25 minutes of thinking per day (walking and thinking).

Find a medium of expression and express yourself publicly every day for three months

Put art on all your walls. If you can’t afford originals, buy prints

Work with Visualize Value’s cryptographic signature has now done around $340,000,000 in volume, and trades between $20,000 and $50,000 of value daily.

The point of this email is to both highlight the absurdity of the above, and to acknowledge that all of that optionality is derived from this one very simple, very consistent creative practice I start... See more

the old playbook:

if you want to be a vc, get into a top firm.

or raise a fund.

if you want to be a founder, launch a startup.

or write a whitepaper.

or send some cold emails.

then hope people believe you’re legit after.

here’s the new one:

write something that hits.

build an audience that cares.

prove you understand the moment.

then capital calls you.

the new game is to aggregate belief before you aggregate capital.

build attention before you build anything else.

Example:

Weird (emotion) ways Sisters (identity) fight (emotion again).

This idea has a built-in share mechanic. If someone with a sister sees it, they’re likely to send it to their sister. That compounds views. That creates virality.

We’d then use the same structure and swap the emotion:

Awkward ways Sisters love each other.

Scary ways Sisters surpri... See more

For example, if you’re a painter, instead of trying to grow an audience as a painter, maybe grow an audience talking about art theory, or reviewing paintings you like. You can still sprinkle in your own work, but it removes the weight of your audience’s engagement from the worth of your creation. If a post flops, you chalk it up to the topic, not t... See more

Einstein says, what characterizes the modern age is optimization of means, yet confusion of goals.