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Step 2 ✅ Thank you Jesus 🙏🏾

i want whatever hafiz was on: there’s a looseness, an ecstatic-ness touched with a hint of madness, to what he writes that makes me believe he had a genuinely joyful interiority

People who don't write because they don't have ideas are forgetting that writing is how you discover ideas in the first place. Don't wait for an idea to start writing when you can start writing to come up with an idea.

Let’s break this down into three parts: Part 1: The Microsoft Partnership Part 2: ?????????????? Part 3: Microsoft’s Word. I will try to avoid as much speculation as possible and stick to the facts. Here goes:

“When I write, I often blend memory, the present, and the future. The present tends to show up as a feeling, tone, or grounding mechanism.” —Khadijah Queen #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/season-grief

No one talks about the horrific event of meeting someone who is the epitome of your type

As a writer? Writing 💀

Feels good (and weird) to be back on campus for the HBS ETA conference. Going to try to document my learning/ notes in this thread 👇🏾

Things I know at 38, I wish I had known at 28. 🧵/

How to build a company in 2023 (with no investors) : 1. Short form video 2. Short form video newsletter 3. Short form video newsletter free community 4. Short form video newsletter free community paid community 5. Short form video newsletter free community paid community product Why start with short form? Algorithms are hungry for them. Feed them what they want. If this post had videos instead of images, it would probably reach 2-3x more people. Video is the single greatest storytelling medium we have. People are 10x more likely to be connected to you from consuming videos than a few words. Note: the most exceptional short-form video creators, are some of the best writers I've ever met. They write beautiful scripts in their sleep. So the tip is to start with a platform like X or LinkedIn to become a good writer and then evolve to video. Once you're getting attention with short form, a newsletter builds that relationship (and you get an email address). This is the Morning Brew stage of your business. You can also create a free community to nurture and build trust. But 99% of these fail. The best free communities (digital or IRL), have rituals, education and entertainment. A paid community can be a monthly subscription for power customers. But only build this when you've proven out PMF with your free community. It's not uncommon to build a $10k-100k/month paid community in B2B. And the margins are pretty. By the time you've built an audience, newsletter, free community, paid community, you probably know what product you need to build. This is where you're building serious enterprise value. This is your retirement plan. This is your 401k. I call it 401C (401 community). But maybe the biggest takeaway of all of this is it's probably time to get your ideas out there. Getting LOUD on the internet is still somehow undervalued. You don't need a big team, don't need VCs really. This is your roadmap to build your empire. -- Share this post if you found it helpful. That's how I know you like this sorta content. Follow @gregisenberg for more of this sorta stuff. Easy follow. Btw, I also put together a free 5 day course on how to build a company powered by community communityempire dot co Enjoy.

making 100 short films!

Panorama of Logic Relational logic—an introduction infinitelymore.xyz/p/relatio… #InfinitelyMore #PanoramaOfLogic

This thing is called Koro , nobody is stealing your private parts ffs Read⬇️ globalpsychiatry.co.uk/artic…

By popular demand… FASHION HISTORY BOOK RECS, a thread 🗝

Really enjoyed reading these interviews, courtesy the work being done by @StartArchiving. Aluwe spoke on the proliferation of the Nigerian film industry (1996) and Chief Zebrudaya complained that marketers only wanted "bloody films" and no comedy (1999) Interesting times.

As a creative person, you need to watch this video before you begin this new week. Retweet, tag, share with one person you know.

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