Sales that doesn’t destroy your soul

“I know a lot of people who make things who don’t stand proudly by their stuff,” Tyler says. “I don’t know if they’re too cool or they don’t want to look thirsty, but they’ll put a song out once on their stories — and that’s it.

"You went through something. You figured something out in a structured format. You recorded it. Not just one take. Parts

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"The shortest answer is doing the thing." - Ernest Hemingway

Stop talking about the thing. Stop asking about the thing. Stop gathering more information about the thing.

Just do the thing.

the sooner you make an attempt despite the fear the sooner you can make an additional attempt. as you put off your initial attempt, you are putting off the entire series that would then constitute the very practice which is required to develop skill so that you no longer fear it

The fundamental message of marketing must change from "we want your money" to "we share your interests".

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea https://t.co/0NYHy3j1fb

But overall, both research efforts themselves (*cough* behavioral economics *cough*) and “debunking” efforts can be naive in this clueless way, causing infinite regress of levels of bunking/debunking that goes nowhere. Because reality is messier than you think and people are more malicious than you think.