Ian Vanagas

Jim aims for an average of 1000 creative hours over a 365 day period. Can be more, but can never be less (and has never been over 10 years).

David Friedman points out that people only do things for other people for three reasons – love, money, or force. Love doesn’t scale, so the economy can only run on money or force. The force experiment has been run and found wanting. Let’s stick with money.

The group chat doesn’t have the same feeling of presence or provide an environment to interact with that in-person hangouts do.

Shared creativity is a powerful force.

When she was laid off from her role at a fintech startup in the pandemic panic of early 2020, Paris doubled down on driving traffic to her DePop store to make money. She saw TikTok as an untapped fount of opportunity, and made creating videos for it her full-time job. She posted dozens of times a day, drawing viewers in with her... See more

Solutions:1. Limit the amount of information provided to members2. Make information more digestible.3. Guide members on how to avoid information bankruptcy.