Here are five more “summaries” or “bottom lines” from Seth Godin’s blog.
And here’s where we last left off.
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We’re simply code, all the way down, just like ChatGPT.
It’s not that we’re now discovering a new sort of magic. It’s that the old sort of magic was always an illusion.
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The more we ask for change at the top, the more we work to change our systems, the more likely we are to get it.
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The places we inhabit are external, for sure, based on how the world treats us. But they’re often internally driven as well, a story that felt comfortable for a while. But if that story has created a stable place of ennui, dread or dissatisfaction, it might pay to find someone who can help us see that it’s possible to move on.
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One alternative is to dramatically overinvest and overprepare for your debut. If early head starts are rewarded, be sure you have one. This can even involve entering school a year later, or running for dog catcher instead of the senate.
The other is to acknowledge that even though head starts are sort of random and often reward the wrong folks, you’re going to ignore them. Make sure you have the resources and resolve to develop your following and your skills regardless of how well you do in the first interactions. Day by day and drip by drip.
Most people try to do both, and doing both almost guarantees you’ll burn out.
[Bloggers note: Yep.]
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His charisma was a skill, not something he was born with.
It’s up to us if we want it to be.
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Bonus link: Now, here’s what I’d call unsustainable.
PS: I’d planned to offer a book about self-publishing. Now, I’m starting to wonder if there’s any point, other than to vent my spleen. 🙂
But I do offer a course on writing mystery fiction here!
And I offer a free checklist for indie authors here.
The checklist is geared toward those who choose to sell books only through the usual retail channels. But there are other ways to publish and sell books and all kinds of reasons to write them.
Hello! 🙂
Ahem … good luck with that! 🙂
How I wish I could been here. I’d hurl an egg or two. Or a tomato. Or a sack of shit.
