If you’re a builder and you’re not content creating you’re 100% ngmi. Distribution is everything. Farcaster is the best place to practice because you’re creating content for other builders. But wherever you do it, you should be writing articles or making videos or creating art.
Actually super excited to see if any of the OG Farcaster team stays on Farcaster and joins us in the trenches and builds from the user side instead of the protocol side. I think it’s a lot more fun and a lot more freedom in terms of surface area to explore!
A Toast to @dwr, @v and the future of @farcaster. Thanks again for your impeccable leadership and your willingness to share and to help everyone learn what great founders look like, day after day, year after year. The more I think about it the more excited about the future I get!
Wow I mean if you’re not bullish you’re not paying attention to the market. It was builders that attracted all the quality people and to go all in on builders at the advent of AI from the best team empowered to do so. Damn. I thought I’d be bearish with @dwr and @v stepping aside but I’m finding it harder and harder to not be excited about the future ahead!
Vlog 2 - How Important is the Deadline?
That is the question I kept asking myself during this busy weekend. I didn’t have the time to record all the footage I wanted. I didn’t get enough done on the coding front. The Monday posting deadline didn’t seem to care about any of this. So I had a choice to make. I could either get it done, or skip it. Choose quality over quantity. But then I realized the whole reason I had the 3 day posting schedule. I even wrote about it and made a video about it last week. Launching is the hardest thing. Putting your ideas out there is hard. It’s a muscle to train. The deadline does matter. Frankly this early on I’m not good enough to make good content. That comes with reps and time. The one thing I can train this early is to keep putting what I can out there. Good days or bad. Train the mental muscles involved with putting your ideas out there. So that’s the lesson for Vlog 2.
Launching is the Hardest thing
It means giving up your potential. It means facing reality. The reality of the gap between what's in your head and what ends up in the world. In my head I had the perfect plan. Thanks to the speed of iteration and development with AI, I can launch my product MVP and vlog series at the same time. I'd done the ground work. On the product side and the video side. All that was left was to put it into action.
Self doubt, constant pivoting, and several days later, I approached my deadline and the reality before me is a far cry from what I'd imagined. The good news I've been here before. I know that no matter how good the work you put in is, when it comes time to launch, the feeling is very much like what I'm feeling now. "It's not good enough.”
I've done this dance enough times to know that's how it always goes. No matter how good it is, it's never good enough. This time though I'm prepared. I've mentally set all my metrics to be process based and not results based. Meaning my goal is not to post good articles or videos. Or create good products. My goal is to post a video 3 times a week. One on Monday, one on Wednesday, and one on Friday. That's it.
If I make cool products or fail epically, my video turns out better. If I got stuck for a long time somewhere, then my video has to capture that and somehow make it exciting. The goal is to record a video and share the journey. It's liberating. Now I can focus on making it better, not good.
I thought this change would be enough to make launching suck less. It doesn't. It never does. The good news is it doesn't matter. It's like jumping into ice cold water after you've just woken up. There is a million good reasons not to do it, or ways to do it better. Your brain is exceptional when it comes to uncovering each of these reasons.
None of them matter. All that matters is you launch. Then you move on to iterating. Then you launch again. And you repeat until you grow old and die of happiness. (Or not, biotech is getting pretty mind blowing these days!)
Strong opinion loosely held: X is going hard into crypto/defi as soon as the clarity act passes. Weak opinion loosely held: Meta won’t be too far behind.
