The result of this are very real network effects: as engagement grows, the community gets smarter, faster to respond, more globally available, and generates more value.
The difference between Twitch and Substack is that Twitch has a large audience that visits its homepage, while Substack’s traffic mostly goes directly to a writer’s newsletter.
I know how hard it is to fight for attention. I’ve been doing it for over five years now. But I also know that you don’t have to sell your soul in the process. You can do things your own way, even if it takes a little longer.
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
It's all going to flicker out at some point with everything else.
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now t... See more
Naval: "If Bitcoin can have value, if Ethereum can have value, then in theory, an NFT can have value as long as the smart contracts and the social contracts and the community enforcing it has value."