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That is the key decision that Shopify, Substack, Teachable, Superpeer, MyVillage, Wonderschool, WeeCare, Squire, Dumpling, SmartHop, and every other BiaB platform will ultimately face.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. And...it's lonely

In contrast, engineering and computer science majors who join unrelated fields upon graduation retain at much higher rates, with only 10-15% switching out after the age of 26

Intellectual loneliness is a challenge that many people feel, but nobody talks about. It’s built on a paradox where you feel alive when you’re learning on the Internet but soul-crushed when you try to talk about those same ideas with friends and family.

Third, a subscription offering should self-select your best customers and give others an aspirational path.

The only way out from this rat race I can see is to re-create a safe space. When you are no longer consumed by the worry that is career sustenance and growth, at least a subset of folks might choose to work on what they think is important. Signalling will never fully die of course, but perhaps we can dampen it.

Its not a pure argument to reduce the ... See more

This is how Warren Buffett, one of the most successful people in the business world, describes his typical day: “I just sit in my office and read all day

Scruffies who want "only five top-level categories" v. Neatniks who want "three hundred fine-grained folders"