Thinking about a thread on the common operating principles of successful internet creators.

Things that aren't intuitive until you start participating. Would this be of interest?
This would be a deep dive across every creator I've ever channeled and studied.

Not what makes them unique, but rather what they've come to believe and understand (and most important, what they DO) in common.
In combination, these traits would amount to an internet creator's worldview -- the philosophy and ethos of the creator economy.

What's not obvious to people who haven't been immersing themselves in this world.
These principles are accessible to anyone, at any age, who is curious, paying attention, and aware of what's happening online.

The upshot is an online curriculum currently teaches these principles in progressive fashion, and we could cover that too....
I'm also thinking about drafting and distilling these principles in public, as part of a group of like-minded people editing a shared doc.

Together, we could iterate toward an internet creator manifesto.

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18 May
Last week, on the @10percent Happier podcast with @danbharris, meditation teacher Jeff Warren talked about the four most important habits in life.

They're the same four habits great creators apply to their work.

Here they are, in Jeff's words:
The first habit is concentration: the skill of calm.

When we focus, there's a tendency for the thing we're focusing on to become more stable.

And if we hold our attention long enough, we can have the experience of flowing and merging with that activity or object.
The second habit is clarity: the skill of discernment.

This is the part of us capable of panning out to a broader perspective and zooming in to notice previously unconscious habits of thinking and responding.

Anything that teaches self-awareness boosts the habit of clarity.
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6 May
THREAD: I didn’t start participating on Twitter until I was 40 years old.

When you learn things in your 40s, it’s not too late to pretend like you figured them out in your 20s.

Here's 1,000 words on what I’ve learned about writing, creativity, and putting yourself out there:
People have been building tools for thousands of years to free you to do more creative work.

Do it.
If you have enough curiosity, attention, and time,

No one can stop you.
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16 Apr
It's here!✨

The 10x Creator Course, powered by Maven: turn your big ideas into a flagship digital product, in four weeks.

I’m teaching:
🔷A cohort-based course
🔷Structured around projects
🔷Open to 36 talented creators

Apply: maven.com/justin/10xcrea…
The course starts on June 7th.

You will learn a step-by-step method to bring structure to your work and package your thoughts into a compelling, successful product – ready for launch by July 2nd.
I'm curating students with a strong point of view and valuable expertise.

This course is for emerging creators who need help building a flagship product; veteran creators who need help building their best product yet; and 10x creators who need help upgrading a major product.
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12 Apr
A distillation of what @balajis said in conversation with @tferriss on The Tim Ferriss Show:
Covering:
🔷Financial & Ideological Independence
🔷Product, Distribution, & Media
🔷Crypto & Decentralization
🔷The Pseudonymous Economy
🔷Digital Native Education
🔷Attacks on Bitcoin
🔷Leadership & Crypto
🔷Anarcho-Primitivism & Transhumanism
🔷Capital
🔷India
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Financial independence is upstream of individual and ideological independence. It means you can’t be canceled. You can ride it out and not back down.

You know consequences may come, but you accept them because you’ve planned for the future and banked up.
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29 Mar
A distillation of what @naval, @shl, and @benthompson said about the creator economy on Clubhouse this weekend:
Naval: To be a good creator, you have to be creative, and being creative means constantly creating things.

You’re not just creating something; creativity is who you are and what you do. You're always creating things in your domain. Nonstop. Constantly.
Naval: There's a tinkering mentality that can keep you ahead of the curve.

Most successful creators are tinkerers. They just play at the edges of their field on something that’s interesting to them, but they don’t do it with a strong motive. They’re genuinely interested.
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17 Mar
To make writing easier, ask what would make it impossible:
Writing’s hard because every time you write, you’re working on two problems at once.

The first is a language and syntax problem made up of words and sentences, and the second is a meaning and structure problem made up of concepts and themes.
These two problems are interconnected, and they can’t be solved independent of each other. 

They have to be solved together.
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