Jake Domagalski
@jdomagalski
Jake Domagalski
A roadmap for freelancing/making money independently
Everyone Online Sounds Like an Absolute Fucking Poseur Lately
Freddie deBoerfreddiedeboer.substack.comThoughts on white liberals, cultural appropriation, millennial smarminess, and the use of language online.
This is why a better strategy than finding a niche, especially early, is “find a mode.” Find a mode where you can continue to be excited about what you are doing. Find a mode where the friction to getting started declines over time. Find a mode where you are excited to keep going despite being ignored. Find a mode where you want to do something des... See more
Don't Find A Niche, Find A Mode
Man lives by time. Inventing the future has been his favorite game of escape. We think that changes in ourselves can come about in time, that order in ourselves can be built up little by little, added to day by day. But time doesn’t bring order or peace, so we must stop thinking in terms of gradualness. This means that there is no tomorrow for us t... See more
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
“socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
Noah Smith • America doesn't really have a working class
But working people don’t need a principled debate about the role of the free market in society, they need higher material living standards
Matthew Yglesias • A common sense economic agenda
From Ezra Klein:
AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that
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