when I was younger I was anxious about how I would make it in such a crowded, chaotic world. but with experience I’ve come to see that persistence is precious. the people* who show up, give a shit and do the work are quite easily identifiable in the long term
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where some people trip up is they don’t realize that distribution is part of the work. this was just straightforwardly obvious to me growing up as a musician. promotion is part of the work. you can’t just write songs, you have to talk to people to get them to come to your shows
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I’m beginning to discern more clearly how my memeplexes are distinct and overlap. This train of thought is separate from Introspect, I have dozens of threads like this that I think I’ll be consolidating in Less Unstrategic (which is an open public draft)
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the hero IME is simply someone who asks questions, who's flexible and persistent, who's somewhat well-read, thinks for herself, does the math, makes a good effort, tries to make her failures survivable, etc. self-directed, alert, responsive, adaptive twitter.com/visakanv/statu
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an on-going compilation of my notes, tweets, threads, blogposts and thinking re: strategy, which may eventually cohere into an ebook of its own: docs.google.com/document/d/1WV
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Ha, Introspect is the first domino, FAN is the second, Less Unstrategic is the third
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don’t you mean More Strategic HMmMmMmMmMmM
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I’ve thought about it; original framing was “play long games”, but I’m willing to screw around provocatively in this domain in before reconsolidating to elegance afterwards
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