I sat down with @walkeriwilliams and @dubbaumann of @FourthwallHQ in San Francisco to talk about how online creators can and should have 100% ownership of their data, brand, and relationships
And own their financial destiny in the process. Making money keeps the art alive.
Over 1B hours watched on YouTube every day, more than all TV networks combined
100's of thousands of people who are creators
But there's no clear playbook on how to make money and turn it into a business. That's what @FourthwallHQ is for: helping creators make money no stress
The Internet means every person on the planet can now communicate with every other one.
Everything you could be into, you can find the others who are into that now. The Internet is making this whole world one place, but a heterogenous one of all the things we all care about.
Open air drug markets in SF are the result of bad policy by extremist far leftists who refuse to allow social workers to collaborate with law enforcement the way they do in Amsterdam and other European countries
This book is lucid, full of real SF citizens like @Twolfrecovery@bettersoma and others who directly experience the worst of our deep policy mistakes buttressed by systemic nonprofit graft and corruption
What do SF Supervisors think about the open air drug laws? Well people like Campos or Boudin sponsor drug use and crime by refusing to enforce the laws. That’s the far far left.
Then there is Matt Haney who is an opportunist and has no backbone to speak of. A true Aaron Burr.
Most people trying to do something new will still err too much on blending in
Often it is fear of not being taken seriously that keeps people from taking the risk.
Before you ship it, try to detect if you are pulling your punch because of this fear.
The bigger danger for people who have new original ideas is that people can’t tell it is different because at surface level it looks the same
“In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.” —Seth Godin
Blending in is what society teaches us to do for most of our childhood and adult lives. It’s safe. We are social creatures and want to be a member of a tribe.
But: To create a tribe requires the opposite: to be willing to be on the high wire of something never before seen