Coaching is interesting. To advertise coaching as a service, doubly so. It's a real invitation to cringe. There's all sorts of selection bias & signalling going on. A man who says "I'm honest" invites questions. To say "you should turn to me for coaching" invites questions. https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1225423186583531520 …
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2/ To recast it in Moldbuggian terms, does a ruler tell the people "I have the mandate of Heaven" ? Moldbug says no. Instead: * become worthy * wait
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3/ Now, Moldbug is a sperg (I say that with love; I'm a sperg too), and has the typical sperg framing of "but features and merit SHOULD matter more, and advertising shouldn't matter at all". There was an interesting thread I saw a few hours ago about how some musician >>>
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4/ carefully engineered viral success by noting that his meme tweets got RTed by his music tweets didn't, so started embedding music in the short virtal videos, and then did SEO by putting lyrics in the tweets so people could google on the lyrics >>>
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5/ ...and that's illustrative of the fact that while merit matters, marketing matters too (given two competitors with equal merit, the one with better marketing wins ...and "better" often means "invisible / unobtrusive" )
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6/ all of this ties into my thoughts on SV culture self improvement / growthhacking bro mindset. There are so many desperate strivers all trying to be Rich And Powerful And Smart, and the vast majority of them are Doing Coffee all around the Bay Area and Networking and Pitching
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7/ I don't really have a thesis statement for this. Maybe: "abjure Silicon Valley and all its works". Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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