A major meme in tech circles - lots of good stuff recently about having agency, and just doing the thing.
LLMs in particular are rocket fuel for this idea - in 30min, you can just get a convo together to dive deeper and accomplish something, but with the bias of hallucinations present, be sure to check up with actual humans so you’re not off into the wilderness.
Pretty decent book on this idea
Rather than go through the “Front Door”, you end up going through the third door.
Very closely tied to things-that-dont-scale
Great example here from Ryen Russilo talking about how to get into media. Basically, see what niche needs attention, start a podcast, see if you can get media credentials, and then you’re starting to meet people.
One other point worth bringing up here is the idea of knowing what you want to do. For me, it’s easy enough to except I can do things, but knowing what specifically I want to do is a bit trickier. There a form of planning (the oft annoying 5-year plan comes to mind) that really is around thinking-better
Wrote a short note on this, but thought Patio11’s tweet on The Essay Meta gets to a bit of this too. You can just buy a domain name, have claude bang out some CSS and send it to a Thought Leader. It’s that easy!
Really liked this post from Daniel on Levelsio’s first project:
What Interior AI by @levelsio looked like in its first iteration.
No landing page, no login, no monetization, no marketing copy. Just drag & drop an image, and it generated some interior ideas with AI.
Then once people started using it, he added the paywall, and access control, and the credits system, and the landing page, and marketing copy, and the legal stuff, and so on.
The order matters.
Think there’s a lot of wisdom here.