1/ hmm micro theory brewing ... there's a pattern when: * you think that thing X is permanent / invariant * you gain experience with tool Y * now you look at every X and say "oh, that's contingent / malleable"
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3/ Noticed it again w welding. Once you've got a MIG welder and a grinder, steel things are no longer permanent ; you can cut them apart and refashion them. Running a business is, I assert, in the same category. Before you do it you see businesses, products, industry as ...
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4/ ...out there, somewhere, invariants, part of the "built environment". Once you launch one or two businesses, you realize that you can hustle small things into existence any time you want. You're not guaranteed a profit, of course, but you can JUST do it.pic.twitter.com/oRwiYq27bR
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5/ I was recently up on the third floor, flipping through old Orbit and Nova SF anthologies and thinking "man, it's a shame there aren't anthologies of EXACTLY the authors I like". and ... hmmm ... one can simply create such a thing. Like, all of these authors have websites
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6/ ...with "contact me" pages. I can just reach out to them and ... you know ... OFFER TO COMMISSION STORIES. A bit of working capital, and a bit of a willingness to lose (small) money helps here. I've talked to one established author already, and market rates for fiction
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7/ are quite affordable. I think this "invest capital up front" model works better than what I've seen some mutuals in the indy space do of "once per quarter I'll cut you a commission check for 2% of the 70% that Amazon hands me ". It's almost as if the abstraction layer
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8/ where one party, the one who does the publishing (we can call that person the "publisher", if you will) fronts the cash and makes an up front payment to the authors (one might call it an "advance" payment) simplifies things, lowers cognitive load, and lubricates the gears.
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9/ So, anyway, I've got a lotta irons in the fire right now, so no promises, but there is a > 0% chance that I'll pull together an anthology in the next year or two.
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12/ related: there's a small piece of farm equipment that I purchased once, broke, and went to buy a replacement ... and the vendor is out of stock (old woman, husband passed). I've reached out to her to purchase the firm, and she was tenatively interested, but has gone dark
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13/ I'd still like to buy the patents, website, and customer list off of her, but if she keeps not responding, I might just engineer around her patents, and commission a machinist friend to build some.
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18/ > welds are temporary bolts re "if you never miss the plane, you're spending too much time in airports": if you haven't cut a weld you made a few years before, or removed a wall you built, you're accepting the built environment too uncritically
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21/ you have never known true existential horror re the lack of permanence of things until you've seen how quickly a reciprocating saw can bifurcate a pig carcass, right down the spine, in about 15 secondshttps://twitter.com/thepiclord/status/1344686168177315842 …
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24/ mmm ... pragmatic AF, but ... oof I dunno, doesn't sit super right with mehttps://twitter.com/TheClarksTale/status/1344700749863743490 …
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