What we value

Examining what this "value" thing is we are all trying to create

This is the paradox of our time: the very tools designed to free us from labor are trapping us in an endless cycle of escalating work.

Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective

Yes.

Earn money in as many different ways as possible

Build a portolio of income streams that act as a high probability “floor” of income

Paul Millerd • Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless

Diversification + stability are the key attributes

In early 2021, while most founders were chasing quick exits, I was laying the foundation for something more sustainable. The digital fingerprints are clear in my content DNA—establishing values and identity wasn't just personal branding. It was memetic groundwork.

The Time Architect: From Building in Public to Bending Time

What’s your content DNA look like?

Fire up a blank page with a question in mind, however, and the world becomes grownup Blue’s Clues. You’re reading something or talking to someone and it’s almost as if you see a blue paw print and hear little kids shouting “A clue! A clue!” whenever something you might be able to use appears.

Long Questions/Short Answers

This is a clue!

Freelancing is one of the best ways to make money in a strong economy, but it’s also one of the quickest things to disappear when companies are cutting costs.

Paul Millerd • Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless

This seems to imply that creating the impression of a strong economy is a self-fulfilling prophecy that creates more work.

Endowment effect

Valuing an object more, only because you possess it.

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We are emotionally attached to things that we own. It makes sense: There’s an emotional investment in having made the decision, in shifting or cementing your identify as “a person who would have this object,” and how you believe that ownership will be perceived by others.... See more

Jason Cohen • The Serengeti Plain Fallacy: Fallacies that aren't fallacies

This shows how value is an individual quality. In order to purchase something, you have to value it at or above the price.

Collapsed states are simpler states, so anyone working towards a simpler state — and anyone telling an intelligible tale is doing precisely that — is working towards a collapse. The failure of a world begins with a failure of the imagination to comprehend increased complexity, and an urge to retreat to greater simplicity.

every story is a degrowth story

I don’t think this is necessarily degrowth, it’s compression. This feels like simplicity is a return to understanding of what’s valuable after building on top of it. It’s the flower budding, blooming, wilting, and blooming again. It’s cyclical and growth oriented, because uncapped growth is deadly to the environment and will be rejected.

Efficiency doesn’t necessarily reduce our workload—it expands it. The more we’re capable of producing, the more we expect of ourselves and others. The more output becomes possible, the further the goalposts are moved on what is considered “enough.”

AI Turned Me Into a Content Agency of One

This statement is the key. The expectations grow with technology, and wages don’t grow with expectations. Wages are based on past values.