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hehe; while I’m a marketing guy, I am not interested in people delegating decisions to me and I have no interest in automating anything for anybody’s speedy delight and convenience. no darling, up in this mf we’re going to do things the slow and gruelling way. 50 year long game https://t.co/NfKnfFmCpj
one of the first things “they” teach you in “marketing school” (I’m making this up, but you do pick it up by osmosis) is to promise timelines. Promise people they will be enlightened in 3 weeks, 6 pack abs in 3 months. Sorry, I will never do that. 5 year long games minimum
This means that my following is something like 5% of what it could be. If you know, you know. I could be on par with some of the larger 500k audience folks on here, I know what to tweet to get that. But it’s a path straight to mediocrity (sorry). I won’t teach anyone that either
Once you start thinking in terms of “5yr long games” you unshackle yourself from the chaotic speed demon circuit and you can float freely. You make less money in the short run but you develop a truer independence in the long run. At least, that’s what I believe
I gotta write this up properly… https://t.co/UTbmjGLqnW
the flattening of attention metrics is something that seems to trip up even the most thoughtful of people 1 follow or view from the right person is worth 10,000 casual randos, maybe 100k. this is hardly ever reflected anywhere in practice it’s a kind of sliding scale but still