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📺 New The Tim Ferriss Experiment episode:​
​Episode #4: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu​
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✍️ New blog post
​Millions of Profitable Niches – 1,000 True Fans 2.0?​
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​🎧 New podcast episode:
​Walk & Talk with Greg McKeown — How to Find Your Purpose and Master Essentialism in 2024 (Brought to you by AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement, Helix Sleep premium mattresses, and Momentous high-quality supplements.)​
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📺 The Tim Ferriss Experiment is back—for free! ​
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​Episode #4 is now live! The show is like MythBusters meets Jason Bourne. In every episode, I partner with the world’s best and most unorthodox teachers (e.g., Laird Hamilton, Marcelo Garcia, Stewart Copeland), who train me for a final gauntlet. Shocking breakthroughs, injuries, epiphanies, and disasters are all part of the journey. Along the way, I show you how to replicate results in an attempt to prove that “you don’t need to be superhuman to get superhuman results… you just need a better toolkit.” Make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of all upcoming episodes.

✍️ New blog post
​Millions of Profitable Niches – 1,000 True Fans 2.0?​
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The following guest post is an excerpt from Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet, the brand-new book from a16z partner Chris Dixon.
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Additional resources and potential next steps have been added to the end of the blog post.
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​Enter Chris...
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In his classic 2008 essay, “1,000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired, predicted the internet would transform the economics of creative activities. He saw the internet as the ultimate matchmaker, enabling twenty-first-century patronage. No matter how niche, creators could discover their true fans, who would, in turn, support them.

The reality is creators do, generally, need millions of fans, or at least hundreds of thousands, to support themselves today. Corporate networks got in the way, inserting themselves between creators and audiences, siphoning away value and becoming the dominant way for people to connect.

Social networks are probably the most important networks on the internet today. The average internet user spends almost two and a half hours a day on social networks. Next to text messaging, social networking is the most popular online activity.

The design of the dominant social networks explains what went wrong...
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​CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING...​

🎧 New podcast episode:
​Walk & Talk with Greg McKeown — How to Find Your Purpose and Master Essentialism in 2024​

Greg McKeown (@GregoryMcKeown) is the author of two New York Times bestsellers Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, and Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most. Together they have sold more than two million copies in 37 languages. He is also a speaker, host of The Greg McKeown Podcast, and founder of The Essentialism Academy, with students from 96 countries. More than 175,000 people have signed up for his 1-Minute Wednesday newsletter.

He is currently doing a doctorate at the University of Cambridge, and he is easily one of my favorite thinkers on all things related to effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of life.

Greg is originally from London, England, and he and his wife Anna are parents to four children.

Please enjoy!

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.
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