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Personal truths are often perceived as universal truths. For instance it is easy to imagine that a system or design works well for oneself will work for everyone else.HighlightShareMore
Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"
material solutions can't fix spiritual problems
Yet, it’s still quite hard to build an audience online when you (a) don’t have name ID from another platform, (b) aren’t a naturally talented social media promoter, or (c) are creating in a small niche. Even if you are able to build an audience, it’s really hard to monetize it on a big platform unless you’re absolutely massive.
Alex Taussig • Firehose #190: 🎸 Creator equity. 🎸
Squatter marketing: create content for clients for free until they can’t believe they’re not paying you This is how Dylan and Henry got a contract with My First Million podcast and got invited to David Sacks’ birthday party—continue reading to learn the stories.
Dylan Jardon • The Danny Miranda Podcast on Apple Podcasts
“More importantly, technology is now affecting the audio category faster than ever before. The diversity of its revenue models, content, and delivery has never been greater. This is inspiring and healthy. And there is a lot more to come.” - Matthew Ball
Talia Goldberg • The state of sound in 2020 and beyond
But centralization absolutely does limit the number of big ‘winners.’ The omnipresent power law skews value relentlessly to the top. We see this across top companies, investors, creators, influencers and beyond. The more centralized the platform or business, the more this tendency proves true.
Jonathan Glick • Web3's Great Gambit: Incentives for the Almost Impossible
- “The techniques that we use, they’re not a big secret. It’s just about making an effort and repeating the same thing every day.”
- Jiro repeats the same routine every day
- He even gets on the train from the same position
- He dislikes holidays and thinks they’re too long
- He wants to get back to work
- This routine is unthinkable for normal people
Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage | Founders Podcast with David Senra (#397) • Podcast Notes
Jiro dreams of sushi. Reminds me of “the mundanity of excellence”
Big Tech used the AI algorithm to maximize revenue, but these objective functions can also be used to maximize things like creativity and happiness