Hendrik

In the United States, long known as the land of opportunity, the chance of middle-class earners’ moving to the top rungs of the earnings ladder has dropped by approximately 20 percent since the early 1980s

instead of “building an audience,” build a world. build a digital garden-ecosystem, that exists — first and primarily — for itself . a world that doesn’t need likes, traffic, subscribers, or clicks — in order to validate its existence

Ultimately, our hopes for preventing a feudal future lie in a bipartisan ­alliance between the yeomanry and the serf class, one based mainly on economic goals. Neither class has much to look forward to under the neo-feudal regime.

“The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few.”

You don’t need to be showing up everywhere. Nor do you need to be showing up all the time.

The inability to rise, or even to maintain middle-class status, has sparked calls for a universal basic income, a policy embraced by many in the clerisy and throughout the oligarchy. A universal basic income would stand as what Karl Marx called “the proletarian alms bag,” keeping the masses from destitution without assisting them to move up, start... See more

Step one is choosing an objective for your post, such as:

1. Open people’s eyes by proving the status quo wrong. Example.


2. Share a solution to a tough problem. Example.


3. Distill an overwhelming topic into something approachable. Example.


4. Tell a suspenseful and emotional story that imparts a lesson. Example.


5. Articulate something everyone’s thinking about but

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my strategy is this: I create my world, and I wait for people to find it . I wait for them to find me, and resonate — at some deeper level - with the work I do.

this might feel a bit radical, a bit passive, perhaps. it thwarts the urge to be seen by as many people as possible, as quickly as possible