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People are being paid to think. Indie thinkers spend their time asking questions, researching niche topics, connecting ideas, and share their newly acquired knowledge online for people to consume.

People shying away from having babies because they heard that it’s so hard are making one of those category errors that are inescapable in this rotten decade in this awful century: they think that hard is the opposite of good.

Storytelling is as much a process of exclusion as of invention (think of how many “projects” are left out of the dichotomy in the opening line of this essay). Include too many details or digressions and we risk losing the plot, inviting the very chaos we seek to banish. But include too few such particulars and we risk boring the audience, including... See more

Create engagement. As your community grows, members should create engagement among themselves, but you can always create points of engagement to help encourage it, especially in the early days.

Because we understandably pay most attention to the fast-changing elements, we forget that the real power lies in the domains of deep, slow change.

Each person is uniquely qualified at something – they have some specific knowledge, capability, and desire, that no one else in the world has