I'm teaching this with @aaditsh, someone I am grateful to have met through the internet and live proof of the networking potential on Twitter.
The course will be powered by Maven, and I'm grateful for the CBC platform that @gaganbiyani and @wes_kao are building.
My first interaction with Cohort-Based Courses was through Write of Passage with @david_perell.
The average completion rate of an online course is ~3-5%.
Of the 200+ students that joined the first Zoom call of Write of Passage, over 90% were on the last one.
I saw the importance that:
• Live sessions
• Small breakout groups
• An active and engaged community
• Powerful alumni participation and guidance
Had in creating this environment where everyone was locked in and actually wanted to take action.
This is the mold that Maker's Mark is built in.
We're targeting ~50-80 students to create an intimate, curated community.
We'll be interviewing each applicant, to evaluate their fit and ensure that we can help them improve.
2 months ago, I took @ShaanVP's Power Writing Course.
I loved his teaching philosophy.
Do -> Learn -> Redo
Every class would have an assignment, 15 minutes to actually do it live on call and then Shaan would pick 2-3 to redo by applying the principles we had learned.
Maker's Mark will adopt a similar structure.
Each session will contain live exercises (writing a tweet thread, building a swipe file, creating an audience profile etc.)
In turn, feedback will be given to each individual student.
Join the course if you want to:
• Start building in public
• Get more distribution for your other projects
• Begin to intentionally network online to unlock opportunity
By the end of Maker's Mark, you will have:
• Built a content flywheel
• Learned how to write to drive results
• Taken your Twitter account from 0 → 1, and then 1 → 100
Don't just listen to me. Listen to them.
These are the lessons that have:
• Got me my dream job. Twice.
• Grew my Twitter following to 10k in < 4 months
• Drove over 50K listeners to my podcast.
Follow for: Content creation advice (SEO/Blogging expert), random internet discoveries, building digital products (Doing Content Right, Doing Time Right) in public.
I've interviewed 20 of the best founders, builders, and creators on Twitter.
Here's what I learned 👇
1. "The only way to escape and achieve financial freedom is to create something where you control the conversation.
I think what more people need to understand is that you don’t need permission to do work." — @jackbutcher
Create your dream job, without permission from anyone.
2. "All creativity is combinational in nature. I build a creativity inbox to collect ideas, then combine through idea sex, which creates new insights." — @anthilemoon
Create a system that brings disconnected ideas together, their interactions will drive new frameworks.
My Lindy Library - a thread of 0.1% of the resources I've consumed that derive 90% of the value.
The content I constantly find myself sharing or coming back to. Articles, podcasts and videos that are timeless.
THREAD...
"The robustness of something is proportional to its life. The longer it has survived, the more likely it is to continue to do so."
Everyone should curate the content providing high signal in this world of noise.
(h/t to @george__mack for his original thread as inspiration)
1. "Think about risk the right way. You only have to be right once. The risk is not getting on the path where you get to be right that one critical time."
You don't have to be 19 to read this piece. Timeless article on how to approach life decisions.