How I think about my career and my own personal "moat,"
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Not really. Tyler is doing about 10x more, and about 10x more systematically.
I’m just playing around for the most part, and benefit from obscurity of interests rather than an effort moat.
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If you say so. Hard for me to get a feel for volume given what I consume. But it seems to me that you, Tyler, and Fred are all executing on different versions of the strategy Tyler describes.
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Lol, I’m fairly confident I’m at the bottom of the output stack in that comparison by an order of magnitude.
Indie consulting as a baseload activity is both lower leverage and lower effort than being an academic faculty or investing. And therefore lower returns too of course.
Okay but I'm thinking more about the connection you're making with an audience that wouldn't have existed before blogs and Twitter, etc.
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That seems to me to be a key benefit of the strategy. The Internet provides the scale for beaconing to work within a lifetime. Before the Internet, our best bet was to publish books and hope enough people read them before we died to find out whether we were seeing something.
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I'm more radically Internet-ized than most, but I don't think effects are as radical as Tyler says. Radical only if you use mass audiences to directly live off.
Most people have always lived off narrower networks.
Cf: "republic of letters" idea republicofletters.stanford.edu


