1k True Fans (2008)

Post by noduerme » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 8:40 AM UTC

bragr wrote: post #95

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Almost every great artist seems to invent the self-control to do this, whether it's writing 5 pages a day or waking up early to paint, in many cases as a response to the ennui and disintegration of an overabundance of unstructured freedom. I'm not one of those guys because it's really difficult to reshape your life into that structure.. But all it really requires is willpower. For me, concentration of that level only…

I think you are being overly unkind to yourself. It could be that the people who become great artist learn this, but it's also possible they just won the genetic lottery in terms of brain chemistry. Beating yourself up by comparing yourself to people like that won't make you like them, but it will severely distort your self image and mental health.

Post by RHSman2 » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 8:59 AM UTC

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The 1k true fans approach is the most suitable one for most people looking to build a business or income stream. It lets you hyper focus on a niche that may not be well served by more general purpose solutions. But don’t let the 1k number fool you. Getting even 1 true fan is incredibly difficult. But the idea is that if you can get 1, you can find your 2nd, then 4th, 8th, 16th, 32nd, 64th, 128th, 256th, 512th and fin…

Yep. To get one real fan, other than your mom and your girlfriend is super hard. I worked as a professional music producer and dj for 10 years in a good niche, paid my bills and raised my kid for that long, and while many other djs and producers played my music productions/compositions and threated me as one of the best in my country, my career never took off. Today I do it as a hobby in my free time and no one reall…

Post by gumboza » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 9:05 AM UTC

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Meh. If you're smart enough to read this web site you should find someone else to leverage some equity out of and a good salary and ride it to IPO then retire and do something else.

> IPO then retire and do something else. Yeah, do what, exactly... Dawdle around dabbling in random stuff, only to eventually get bored and return to tech for making an impact on something and changing the world...

Post by simonebrunozzi » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 9:13 AM UTC

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JKCalhoun wrote: post #39

Maybe some of you know of Dave Bull: the Caucasian Canadian that took a shine to Japanese woodblock carving (Ukiyo-e printmaking). I have pondered his "business model". Apparently the master Japanese carvers were loathe to take this gangly gaijin seriously when he began his obsession decades ago. And yet, Dave set for himself some insane goal of carving 100 wood blocks for prints over the space of a decade. Now as a…

I'm a long-ish time fan of Dave's. I've been following his work on and off for the past ~decade or so. I've bought a number of his prints and have visited his shop in Asakusa. I've been thinking about this for some time now, but I think the key to a number of artists successes has been the ability to combine what you've laid out here. Long term dedication to the work & with expressing the passion for that work — thro…

Post by astrange » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 10:43 AM UTC

pattern_shift wrote: post #70

This essay has it all around backwards. 1k true fans is a recipe for destroying your own creative life and devoting most of your time to sales funnel building, fomo emails and clickbait offers and bribes for mailing list signups, running ads, etc. The true fan who spends $100/year wants you to be their therapist and to belong to your tribe, will stalk you, will send you unsolicited emails offering advice, etc. Don't…