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Bitcoin + niche is the way to go. I believe it will shape the next 20 years of content, community, and startup.
What is your opinion on tea with milk?
I'm a Brit, but I only like green tea (plus mate and herbal teas).
For me, tea with milk is nauseating!
Thanks for reading, and I'm glad you can make sense of my journey - it's never a linear path. In amswer to your question, I don't coach much now, but I still love it, and would not close the door on helping others.
Digital businesses give us the opportunity to be sovereign, and that is truly amazing. If you just focus on that, you are living a fulfilling and rich life.
Add to that you wrote a book. Amazing. Publishing your truth is and important proof of work that should make you feel proud.
Keep going with your biz. As it is connected to bitcoin,you are on the right path for sure.
No and I still haven't read a copy. As others have said, thanks for the review and saving us from reading it.
I'm sure it's the right book for some normies, but not for me.
Thanks for this review. I remember chatting about it with you in Prague (even though it was not released then).
The title is 'meh'.
The cover is absolutely baffling.
The content was always going to be vanilla and unoriginal.
Still, Natalie is a good actor in the space, and I hope lots of people read the book.
Adding in all the nuanced social commentary, shitposting, and editing you do, that's an impressive tally!
I'd say traditional publishing was very different pre- internet (and pre Amazon).
Profits may not have been so driven by the 1% of top authors, but most people were denied the opportunity to publish. That said, I think with all creative work, the patrons and publishers have always funded more misses than hits.
Re: bitcoin, I think we are in a strange position. Incredible opportunity to earn and build on Nostr as first movers. But bitcoiners are often non-fiction readers (they do read a lot). The keenest fiction readers are 50+ women.
I tend to think that once we move away from Big Tech fremium platforms, monetizing creative work will come down to how well you can build a community.
Pretty much exactly my thoughts on the book! I'd be happy to publish this review on the 21 Futures blog if you like. I've been keen to get some more reviews live.
With higher production standards (editing, cover, and marketing), this book could really be a winner. At its core, the story is worthwhile and well expressed.
Congrats to Michael, and I wish him well with the book.
Certainly at the moment, some people are happy with drivel.
How much of the internet will be genAI? Probably 99% because it can produce so much content quickly. But I'd argue that most of the readership for that content will also be bots.
With deepfakes, AI influencers and machine text, there will be a tipping point. If 60% of Instagram was AI gen accounts, real people would leave. Especially with images, but also with text, viewers and readers will find ways to demand and verify humanity.
Everything will become about proof of work.
I see how well-written comments on LinkedIn gain more traction than posts. That's because 50% of the people are posting drivel, and the other 50% are commenting with AI.
The value of words trends to zero when producing them costs no time.
That's why words produced with thought and effort WILL continue to be valuable.
Final thought: If platforms like Insatagram become pure AI drivel-flows, people will cease to find it valuable and will eventually migrate elsewhere.
Even career novelists and Booker Prize winners take university jobs, speaking engagements, and other positions!
Yes, you are right. In publushing, you trade sovereignty for reach. The bigger you want to grow, the more centralized systems you need.
Hopefully, we will see ecosystems like nostr thrive and develop. Audience growth and monetization might look different there.
However, with books taking a colossal effort to bring to market, it's likely authors will still benefit from companies and systems to help with discoverability.
I think a publishing collective of freelancers (or even AI assisted elements) which is genre specific.
Author pays for production but is not the product. The publisher has a vested interest in seeing the book succeed. Thiscurrently works well for non-fiction, but fiction is a tough nut to crack. With non-fiction, your aims might be qualitative (conference speeches, new clients, magazine feature), not just sales.
I think marketing will get way more complicated, and writers will need most help there. Still, it can be daunting prospect for fiction writers spending thousands with little guarantee of return. Maybe creative crowdfunding provides another option.
It is best to do it alone, and yes, I think you find what you are looking for along the way.
It is one of the greatest things I have ever done.
Having read this article, I just tipped you 100 sats.
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