Joan Westenberg
@joanwestenberg
I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Skeptical tech optimist, EA aligned, building internet businesses.
Joan Westenberg
joanwestenberg.com
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
Darcy reflects on the daily challenges he faces as an independent journalist: "Every day you wake up and you're like, what am I gonna write today?" This blend of spontaneity and strategy is central to the ethos of Status, which thrives on delivering timely and relevant content.
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I built a 1,107-customer business from a single weekly ritual:
•Write
•Hit send
•And repurpose.
Emails become blogs, blogs become scripts, scripts spawn shorts.
Here's the deal:
Flywheels obey... See more
Parker Worth ️x.comWhat I do every day to generate income:
· Exercise (for energy)
· Read (for ideas)
· Write (to understand)
· Publish (to market myself)
· Comment/DM (to improve my network)
Oddly enough, this is the 20% that moves the needle 80%.
· Exercise (for energy)
· Read (for ideas)
· Write (to understand)
· Publish (to market myself)
· Comment/DM (to improve my network)
Oddly enough, this is the 20% that moves the needle 80%.
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How to beat 97% of people.
Believe in yourself to a point of delusion.
Believe in yourself to a point of delusion.
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First, become able to feel conviction even in the face of high uncertainty. Second, learn how to weigh your options so hard that by the time you've picked the best available action, no part of you has an urge to go back into "deliberation mode" until you encounter new evidence or ideas that would have changed the result of your deliberation. Third,... See more
Nate Soares • Dive in
If I stand by what I've written, recorded, invested in, or built, then there is nothing wrong with it.
And if what you are doing is moral, ethical, and legal, and you stand by it, then there is nothing wrong with you trying.
“Nothing was useful which was not honest.” – Benjamin Franklin
And if what you are doing is moral, ethical, and legal, and you stand by it, then there is nothing wrong with you trying.
Louie Bacaj • (4) The Original "PDF Hustler" - by Louie Bacaj The Original "PDF Hustler"
Brilliant schemes of aggression, if flawed, entail attrition as if by an inexorable reactive law.