No growth for growth's sake, Minimum Viable Promise, The Super Specific How

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Welcome to Growth Currency⚡ #51 — your digital dose of creator caffeine

And a special welcome to the 11 newest members of the Growth Currency⚡ newsletter community! Welcome Jay, Carlo, Gregor, David, Donald, Scott, and Teresa—to name a few!

I appreciate you being here and I hope you get what you're after. Send me a DM if not! 🙏
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GROWTH INSIGHTS | No growth is still growth.

Thanks for being here. Next week is issue #52, and I'm excited.

For a few reasons...

1) I'll hit the one year straight publishing milestone (something I never thought I could do)
2) I'm going to end my streak at #52

Why?

#52 is significant for me and something I am very proud of. I've grown this newsletter from zero to over 1,100 of you fabulous people in a year. And learned so much in the process.

But I'm also feeling caught in a hamster wheel.

My friend Merott from Course Creators Weekly recently ended his 73-week newsletter streak for some time to "figure things out".

I'm going to do the same.

I'm taking a much needed week off (or two?) from publishing this newsletter to think through my direction, focus, and what I truly want 2022 to look like for me and my family.

So the newsletter won't be "growing"—but I will be.

And that's what matters most.
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YOUR GROWTH CURRENCY ⚡ THIS WEEK

"Knowledge is the currency of growth."
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​Nifty Generator — Generate your own NFT collection using no-code.

(via BrainPint)
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​5 actionable ways to grow a brand Twitter account by Brian Dean (via ilo.so)

This article might be focused on growing a brand's Twitter following, but the concepts can easily apply to your personal brand, too.​
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​1-3-5 List app — Use the 1-3-5 formula to create a highly prioritized to-do list with the FREE 1-3-5 List app.
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​The Super Specific How by Wes Kao

"When a student is paying so much more for a CBC... their patience runs out quickly if your course is a blog post masquerading as something more." - Wes Kao

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​How To Get Followers On Twitter by Josh Spector
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Here are a few pieces of Josh's advice: (much more where that came from)

→ Use Your Pinned Tweet To Get Followers
→ Use Quote Tweets Instead of Retweets
→ When You Follow Someone On Twitter, Tweet About It
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​MPV: Minimum Viable Promise by Jay Clouse

I had no idea who Jay Clouse was at the beginning of 2021—yet he's become one of the creators I most look up to now. And articles like this are part of the reason why.

Happy New Year to you and yours!

I hope the flip of the calendar has you focused on what you truly want for the year ahead.

See you next week.

And in case you missed it, here are last week's most popular links:

#1: ​18 Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2022 by Nick deWilde
​#2: ​​​​​​Dickie's Digest — The Best Podcasts of 2021 by Dickie Bush

Peace and platonic love,

Dylan

PS: Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.