this type of advice will never go viral because it's not sexy... if i posted an MRR screenshot alone & added a motivational caption, it'd do 100k views but as a beginner, you really need to focus on the boring stuff - forget about anything that sounds attractive, easy or cool contrary to what your ego might make you believe you're not "building an empire" just yet, you're tryna quit your job lol

i see a massive bias on X - beginners are getting pushed into diving headfirst into things that sell themselves like consumer apps, info, saas, etc. but most people that have actually made significant money with these things can attest that the easiest way to get to $10k/month is to sell your services directly you're fighting an uphill battle by tryna sell your solution in a hands-off reusable format, 1000's of people are doing the same thing - this should be a gamble reserved for those that already have time/capital to invest & leads to sell to i don't think i have a single successful friend who didn't start out with some type of service-based business that required them to actually work... you should be balls-deep in your industry & used to getting your hands dirty before you go for a "build once, sell twice" product on the plus side, working for people who have a functioning business is also a form of apprenticeship, it's free mentorship that you get paid for, win/win

spending your time like a normie is the single best way to understand your customers if you're in mass-market B2C...

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repurposing X posts to IG is one of the quickest paths to growing a personal brand... have seen people go from 0 -> 100k with this exact framework many times X has the best thinkers in the world but a lot less of the "normie" crowd use it, this means you can literally ctrl C/V your way into becoming an influencer and nobody will care lmfao

a beginner focusing on "building" instead of learning how to sell is incredibly backwards thinking... why would one learn 2 tough skills at once instead of allocating 100% of his time to getting good at the more profitable one?

there was a point in time where 99% of my traffic came from posting 5k youtube shorts per day... the same exact short 5k times per day lmfao i was driving like 30k link clicks daily but sent it to a trash CPI offer so was making roughly $1.5k/day i felt like i was killing it in the moment because it was the first time i made such money, but in hindsight i definitely wasted that traffic

lmfao

it feels like naval writes tweets for snobby people who pretend to understand them to feel intellectually superior...

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there's an interesting X algo quirk where quote tweets almost always perform better than standalone tweets, despite getting less engagement... i've noticed it seems to be correlated with how well the quoted tweet is doing i'm not a fan, but it is what it is

the more i talk to LLM's about things i'm already deeply knowledgable about, the more i see their limitations... a base LLM with no access to good information is actually pretty fkn stupid, and the dangerous part is that it sounds super confident in its stupidity therefore if you're researching something that you're not familiar in, you're likely gonna get lied to, a lot this makes me think that LLM's will never kill the info market - in fact, they make good info more valuable, we now have a better way to intake that info & talk to it

one of the most understated reasons for why 99% of the people who want to get rich won't ever do so, is that they tie their ego into their ventures way too much... they don't just want to be rich, they want to be respected, they want to be COOL & they wanna do cool things to make money the reality of money is that, for the most part, making it isn't an appealing process nobody wants to pick up a camera and talk about the boring (but valuable) solution to a problem they're selling, they wanna pick up a camera and show off how cool their life is this is why most kids wanna be rappers, influencers, athletes & not CEO's of tech companies, despite the latter being a much more likely path to getting rich

the reason most people are not successful is not because they lack discipline or are lazy... it's because they have no clearcut goal they can go after working hard is one thing, but the majority of people have no idea what to work on, they have no sense of direction if you have a goal & a plan on how to achieve it that you can chip at, you're already ahead of most people

here's a quick rundown of how the X algo works for fried attention spans: 1: the algo builds a profile of every viewer - their last 127 engagements, who they follow, what they've muted, so your post has to match the taste pattern of the people you want to reach, not just be "good" 2: your post enters the pool two ways - shown to your followers (in-network) OR picked by the AI for strangers whose taste matches yours 3: every post gets tagged with metadata, so video length, language, media type & brand safety all silently shape your reach before any human sees it 4: cheap filters get applied to your posts, for example a post being too old will be penalized, muted keywords as well, spammy patterns such as reusing common formats will penalize you too 5: after all that an AI filter predicts the odds a viewer will do 20 specific actions on your post - reply, quote, repost, DM-share, click, dwell, follow you, etc. - your job is to engineer the post to maximize those exact actions 6: each action has a weight - replies, quotes & DM-shares carry the heaviest positive weights 7: negative actions tank you hard - if viewers hit "not interested," mute, block, report, or scroll past fast, the score collapses, so the first line/image should stop the scroll 8: the algo penalizes your 2nd, 3rd, 4th post to the same viewer - so one banger beats five mid posts, quality > spam with this algo 9: video has a hidden rule - clips under the minimum duration threshold don't earn the "quality view" bonus, so looping micro-clips lose to actual watchable videos 10: to reach strangers, you need early engagement from your immediate network, the algo will match your post with people who have the same taste as them as long as that immediate network provides positive signals

am i tripping or is this humanoid doing absolutely nothing worth automating?