maybe the next phase of the twitter game is we start businesses together
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once upon a time i brainstormed ideas about how to organize a commune with all my dope friends where we could raise children together relatively unimpeded by the demands of normal jobs
and one of my only ideas was that we should be some kind of consulting / coaching agency
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like okay you want to pay to talk to us about your problems? we got an alexander technique guy, an energy worker, a business coach, an unlicensed therapist, take your pick
cover all the bases with people with different areas of expertise
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main thing i don't like about this idea is that it feels "ungrounded." had a DM conversation with which helped clarify this a lot - i don't want coaching to be the primary thing i do, i want something else more concrete that grounds and tests the coaching
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it's like the old "rationalists should have secret identities" - if you're in the job of going meta real hard on human nature or w/e you still need an object-level pursuit that grounds and tests your insights and i don't really know where to look for that yet
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there's a real frustration here which is good at tapping into and making explicit - there's so much untapped wealth in our social graph. there are brilliant people who could do brilliant things together, that *make money* in a way that isn't *terrible*
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i don't think it's overgeneralizing too much to say that this corner of twitter attracts the sort of people who wouldn't be and aren't happy in traditional jobs working for bosses etc. but there are so many of us! we could just make jobs for each other instead!
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i really don't know what that looks like yet but hopefully thinking out loud like this seeds something to come back to later
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yup even the core 100 or so of us could probably increase each other's productivity/output/wealth creation etc by a dramatic amount if we thought about this out loud together, and that's even before we account for all the 2nd order stuff
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maybe it helps to work backwards from the obvious failure mode / criticism – the thing I trust that most of us are adamant about avoiding is collapsing into a sort of black hole singularity of "write ebooks / teach courses about how to write ebooks / teach courses about..."
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yeah for sure that shit can get real ungrounded
like... at some point somebody down the line needs to “make something real” whatever that means 🤔
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I don't think it necessarily needs to be "ok this guy is focused on making bricks and this guy is running a farm" (tho of course farms are cool)
the real thing could just be, here are the people outside of our cluster that we helped this month, we solved these problems for them
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not just making self-replicating ebooks,
also making ebook readers and means of freeing up time elsewhere to then spend with them
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