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It’s taken me a while to warm up to the idea that thinking is working, and that what is actually work can at first look lazy. I love Naval [Ravikant’s tweet], “Be too busy to do coffee while keeping an uncluttered calendar.” More often than not, spending two hours thinking about a problem is a much better use of my time than taking two calls... See more

That growth can only be realized through consistent investment over time. While challenging, for many artists, the payoffs in the form of direct communication with fans and predictable revenue with friendlier margins far outweigh what they would spend many more months to try to achieve through the usual avenues like streaming and free social media.

I’m writing this installment with the themes of the last—exhaustion, burnout, tiredness, rest—still in mind. There are so many reasons why any of us might feel exhausted and depleted, but just now I find myself wondering how much of it is the result of aimless labors that serve only the operations of a techno-economic system designed to offer us

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CREATORS may rush to start minting NFTs as a way to get paid for what they’ve created. Unlike alternative digital currencies which are relatively complicated to invent and sell, it’s recently become super easy to ‘mint’ an NFT. I could, for example, turn each of the 8,500 posts on this blog into a token and sell them on the open market.

But what do we know about alpha? In short, it is very hard to attain in a sustainable way and the only path to alpha is hard work and a disciplined dedication to a core set of beliefs.

Focus on maximizing your satisfaction, not your audience reach. Often times you can sacrifice your creativity to reach a larger audience, but it will cost you some satisfaction

The shape of information flow determines the structure of society.