Michael Lewis on how your narrative crafts your character:
If you listen to people, if you just sit around and listen, you’ll find there are patterns in the way they talk about themselves. Some people are always the victim. Some people always get unlucky. Some people are always in the middle of some impossible project... See more
on the other hand, i don’t really believe in obligation to the past, especially because obligation is often used to guilt or pressure people into specific behaviors, especially because that guilt or pressure often results in needless anxiety.
What happens if there was a system in place for the community of supporters to own a piece of the project's success and reward the most valuable members as well?
Here is the cold hard reality for media companies: if you don’t have access to customers — whether because of the Internet generally, or the pandemic specifically — you don’t have pricing power. Actually, that doesn’t go far enough: if you don’t have access to customers’ wallets, you don’t have pricing power.