Rates exert gravity. If you charge more, you’ll spend your time talking to more sophisticated clients, working in better businesses, specializing in projects close to the money. These are compounding advantages. If you charge less, similar dynamics apply.
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(The people you are paying dues to are not necessarily incentivized to tell you of the existence of of faster paths, and this is not always because they’re malicious. They’re probably as enmeshed in the system that produced them as you are.)
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And this is why I love the Internet, because it can be both a vector for discovery of better opportunities, a repository of the skills one needs to successfully execute on them, and ample existence proofs (and synthetic pants kicking) that it is possible to be more ambitious.
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it’s been really interesting, lately, seeing the radically different trajectories of some local venues in communities I participate in, and basically seeing who follows the advice in this thread and who doesn’t
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