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Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding is a true masterpiece. Here are the 4 habits of auteurs that help create it—

🛡 MISSION greater than yourself
♟ DECISION without compromise
💥 ACTION with right delegation
🎭 SHOWMANSHIP to set the tone

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Video games are crazy violent. But Death Stranding shows it doesn't have to be. A gorgeous, meaningful adventure created by a masterful team.

Lots of lessons for creators in this video.
10X more work than a tweet, a blog post, or probably most podcasts.

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Full transcript on my blog— blog.garrytan.com/the-4-habits-o…
Hideo Kojima is probably the only game auteur who cuts his own launch trailers. Others spend millions of dollars on outsourcing something very 🔑

At the same time he is great at improv-style collaboration. Many levels of “yes and...” gets the most out of an all star cast.
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New vlog this morning: Why do people steal startup ideas? And what can you do about it?

Transcript of my vlog here, in case you would rather read it

Honestly it might not be malicious. There are a finite number of good ideas at any given time because you are often constrained by the simple and important question of “Why now?”

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Why do people steal ideas?

🙈 Often it isn’t stealing— there aren’t many viable ideas
🦄 “Why now?” is the main constraint— driven by tech, regs, and macro
💪 The only counter is fast execution
🏹 Be customer-focused not the competition-focused

You can win if you can outrun.
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Garry()
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Doubled my YouTube channel subscribers to more than 5000 while also adding 3600 new Twitter followers in the last month

Building a new audience with content is slow and takes forever but I am happy with 2X monthly growth 👌

Creators have to celebrate small wins 🙏
What’s cool is that a bunch of the core metrics seem to be healthy 👌
@MrBeastYT would spend 4 hours on just the YouTube thumbnail

Interesting right? Getting someone to click is half of the war. The other half is retention!

HT @walkeriwilliams for the rec, great podcast with @reedjd_ who manages @MrBeastYT

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Garry()
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When choosing a startup idea, you must be able to check either of these boxes

[ ] Truly novel (nobody else has tried)
[ ] 10X better product

The absolute best check both. 99% of startups check neither.

A good pitch is sometimes a strong story explaining how to get the 1st ☑️
One thing I am starting to realize is if you can’t get either, the founder is better off cutting burn and starting over (or shutting down)

One of the hardest convos in the life of any startup

Sometimes you just know. But sometimes your friends have to nudge you. Never easy.
Caveat: 10X better go to market can frequently beat 10X product
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