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>> Ben has founded or taken a leading role in 5 businesses in everything from software development to food and entertainment.
You can't be good at anything if you change industry every few years. It takes at least a decade to be truly good at something. If you're selling a service that you're not actually good at, you're just a snake oil salesman. Your success doesn't depend on how talented you are, but on how good you are at fooling people.
Agreed that ain't it. I built up my account relatively quickly to a modest 11k followers and found nothing but emptiness there. Superficial interactions with people I don't know. Meaningless. I never post now. I spend more time thinking about the future, layout out a plan for my life and reading books. ROI of that time spent is much, much higher both in terms of moving my career forward and overall happiness.
It's bad UX too, which I why I pretty much never click on the "more" button for individual posts.
It's interesting to read a blog post that I guess caters to some audience that is "in the know" with whatever this guy is doing because all I got was the message "Being an influencer is not the answer" where I am still left with "..to what?" I am pretty sure I agree with the sentiment that he is reaching for but I have no idea what he was trying to achieve with his profile. But if he did indeed spend over $100k build…
In the bio: >> Ben has founded or taken a leading role in 5 businesses in everything from software development to food and entertainment. You can't be good at anything if you change industry every few years. It takes at least a decade to be truly good at something. If you're selling a service that you're not actually good at, you're just a snake oil salesman. Your success doesn't depend on how talented you are, but o…
tl;dr I tried to run a vanity instagram account and my heart wasn't in it and it cost a lot of money.
It's interesting to read a blog post that I guess caters to some audience that is "in the know" with whatever this guy is doing because all I got was the message "Being an influencer is not the answer" where I am still left with "..to what?" I am pretty sure I agree with the sentiment that he is reaching for but I have no idea what he was trying to achieve with his profile. But if he did indeed spend over $100k build…
He wanted to achieve business with it, I think it was pretty clear in the article.
If you're an entrepreneur, this may certainly be true. But if you're someone who's success depends on staying top of mind, then social media is important. Actors and politicians come to mind. Both of course have to do other things too, but a large social media following will definitely boost them, especially for someone who isn't already super famous. Look at what social media has done for AOC. I have a friend who is…
Yeah I have no problem with people hustling and working hard to build something, and as with any other part of life, some will make it and some won't.. I'm just always left wondering, all this effort that so many young people pour into building their social media influence.. What does society get out of that in the end? It feels like "not much" on a good day (and a lot of social debt on a bad day).. And maybe this is…
And guess what? There are people now that make a lot more money than that playing video games, and a bunch of people our age who get a ton of money a year to make those games.
So who knows, maybe it will show it's value later.
Besides, society has had famous people for quite a long time, so there must be some value in it.
Is the first sentence meant to be for the title, i.e. "Fuck Social Media. That Ain’t It." -- said every major marketer in 2018. ? I'm asking because it doesn't make any sense (he said "Every marketer was wrong", but then he agreed on "fuck social media").
Earlier quoted context omitted.
He wanted to achieve business with it, I think it was pretty clear in the article.
...but what business?