Episode 81, Metamuse podcast — Muse

[The only distinction Sublime makes between free and paid users is showing the 'UNLICENSED' toolbar text, which you may not even notice in daily usage but might make you look no so serious about your tools.]
[First priority is text entry, so that people feel they can type as fast as they want. Second priority is extensibility so that community can create optimizations for specific domains.]
[Everything inside Obsidian is a plugin. You can even turn off backlinks and the file menu bar to have a barebones editor and customize from there.]

How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever - The Verge

One feature took off immediately, for power users and casual readers alike: a simple sharing system that let users subscribe to see someone else’s starred items or share their collection of subscriptions with other people. The Reader team eventually built comments, a Share With Note feature, and more. All this now seems trite and obvious, of course, but at the time, a built-in way to see what your friends liked was novel and powerful. Reader was prescient.

#043 – Confronting Your Fears and Taking a Leap with Pieter Levels of Nomad List

[Netflix can use their scale to charge $10 per month, but as a small business you need to charge more than that. Corner store doesn't compete with megacorps, but instead offers something different.]
[Aggregate information and research in one place and present it in a useful way, then build a community of people interested in that info to present other products they might like.]

#246 – Doing Content Right with Steph Smith of Trends.co

[Podcasts like are best friends, newsletters like acquaintances, blogs like random people you meet at conferences. You may never even know pay attention to who's writing an article.]

[Smaller numbers but quality relationships with everyone learning and growing together]

[Podcasts are top of funnel and a big ask for people to listen for an hour. Strategically talk about the topic in other channels, and plug the podcast when it bites.]

[You wouldn't hang out with a friend for an hour a week if they had no sense of humour and were purely informational, the experience needs to be fun.]

Open Box Computers & Electronics

Was able to find an iPhone mini here not available anywhere else. 'New' here means brand new sealed in box. Claimed over the phone they resell returned items from Costco.

Is the solo model misaligned when capacity for non-projects feels chronically impossible, yet fundamental milestones seem lightyears away? How much is a celebration of what can be accomplished by one person and how much is a failure to involve others along the way?

Simply live your your life 100%. Do what only you can do. Show as much magic as possible.

[Most people buy transactionally to make money or get laid, and non-transactionally to support things they like. Framing yourself as a utility lands you in the first category. People want a parasocial relationship with creators, and will pay to feel excused from not trying the creative path themselves. Doing and publishing isn't enough to land you in the second category: documenting and explaining in an artful way can become as important as what you're making. Maintaining a community implies being more active on social media.]

[Try camming.]

How can you read when you're still a beginner?

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[I've spent years writing these courses.]

[Whether you're a beginner, or intermediate and want to improve…]

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