I struggle with @david_perell's Personal Monopoly idea.
I love it, but I can't find ' the one'. Instead, I'll let myself have many.
Here's one:
- teaching Alexander Technique online
- literate with no code tools
- decent writer who gets Twitter
(Yes, I'm building something).
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Replying to @m_ashcroft @david_perell
Idle thought: Being the best at two things is a lot easier than being the best at one thing, because there are a lot more pairs of things to be good at than there are single things to be good at, so there's less competition.
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I guess one thing both this and my original analysis kinda miss out on is that it's actually not that hard to be on the pareto frontier for many pairs of skills, because your pairs scale quadratically with number of skills as well. Though the coverage is still probably low.
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I haven't read the LW article, but this is sort of my point. Another 'Personal Monopoly' may be: - Has a physics degree - Career in electricity network innovation - Alexander Technique teacher This means I can work more easily with analytical types who are allergic to 'woo'.
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Replying to @m_ashcroft @DRMacIver and
Probably better examples out there. I'm not the necessarily the best at one of these things, but being aware of the multiple areas of intersection gives me a niche, a language, people who are likely to find me useful etc.
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I guess one of the reasons why this approach is unpopular is that we live in a system that is designed to create systems of interchangeable workers and because the pareto frontier is so sparsely occupied if we valued that more we'd have to actually treat people as individuals.
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Perish the thought.
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Unfortunately, as you probably already know, capitalism. My suspicion is that the pareto-optimal approach works pretty well for exactly the sort of people who have enough social and financial clout to already get treated as individuals.
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Yeah... you can get one of the pair through a standard institutional mode. To get the second you need to go a bit weird, which requires the slack to do it
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Yeah but I think even if you *get* the second, people will hire you based mostly on only one of them until you're at a career point where you basically get to define your own job roles.
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Replying to @DRMacIver @drossbucket and
Even when a company is open to someone defining their own role, there could be very few places where a given skill pair is just what they need... Which is probably why this approach seems to most often work well for founders/consultants
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