A meaningful portion of my professional output is repeating "Charge more" with sufficient variety to not get too bored to continue repeating it verbatim.
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See this thread, including conversation from several people who have been working in their beat for many years, for an enduring truth about creating things: If you say X, and X is useful, buckle up because you're going to be saying X for a VERY LONG TIME.https://twitter.com/eugenewei/status/1193662458835038208 …
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A recent example: Startup: Hey we're thinking through pricing. Me: Oh cool. Startup: And $INVESTOR said that you would have some thoughts. Me: Did they predict what my thoughts would be? Startup: They said you would say 'Charge more.' Me: I am going to say that.
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Startup: So anyhow here is our service, pricing, and packaging. Me: Interesting, some comments... also, charge more. Startup: Oh you did say it. Me: I mean I'm priced into saying it but also if you were listening there is that segment which gets 100X the value here.
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Idle thought: Both memes and individual people can act as pointers to valuable regions of mindspace which would otherwise be forgotten because mindspace is basically infinite and its addressability is terrible. Pointers help lessons "stick" and are, broadly, a good thing.
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@visakanv thought well he is my pointer to "Consider the absolutely-no-irony-here societal implications of being good with memes" bit of mindspace.Show this thread
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And how long do you anticipate having to make this point to new people, or old people who didn’t remember hearing it?
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I hope it won't be more than a chapter in my memoirs but it is almost certainly going to be a chapter in my memoirs, and that chapter is going to make a lot of geeks a lot of money.
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I realize this every time I read Matt Levine. He never assumes that you’re familiar with his previous writing on a given topic and always links to earlier columns and repeats the basic premise.
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(Come to Patrick’s tweets for the “change more,” stay for the kinship with the other Matt Levine fans his tweets bring out of the woodwork)
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“Charge some” –Peter MacKenzie
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"Charge more" –Oscar Wilde
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