What do you get when you combine a permissionless financial system with permissionless intellectual property? Skin-in-the-game communities supporting businesses that experiment with new ways to get their IP out into the world.
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Signal in a world of noise.
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How to build things on the internet.
I'm amazed that I have this in my hands. It's a masterclass in clarity, thinking and strategy.
It works. And it works well. And once you internalize it, it will change the way you think about the internet.
The advice and mindset hacks that Jack shares have helped me grow personally and professionally.
I spent $300 on VV in 2020. At the end of 2021, I fully expect I will be able to say it is at least a 1,000x ROI.
Jack's style of teaching works, he combines deep general principles and specific, transparent implementation.
Amazing content that is created from Jack's skin-in-the-game adventures. Highly recommend.
In short, a distillation of everything you need to succeed as a builder of digital assets.
There are no shortcuts, Jack will be quick to point that out. He's not giving you a fish — he's teaching you how to fish.
Signal in a world of noise.
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Doing business on the internet is about convincing people you don't know that you have something they need or want. Think of a brand as the bridge between the two.
The title should perhaps read $58 — $1,000,000. $58. That was my business bank account balance in January of this 2020.
How to combine competence, curiosity, and character to create a category of one.
Expecting the people that care about you to care as much about your obscure obsession as you do is not going to help you.
Break the matrix so your time no longer has a linear relationship with your income.
"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve." — Elon Musk
There are four ways to think about how value is perceived: Psychological, monetary, functional, and social.
They are all bridges that lead to building.
A sharp, short read by Nick Widmer on why NFTs are worth understanding.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to building a leveraged internet business, but there are principles that, once you see them, you can't unsee them.
The Art of Saying No
This article is about the transition from hustling your way to a few clients, to dialing in a product and buying your time back.
The eventual goal is to make your business your only client, and let it work.
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This is a full preview of the Executive Summary from Visualize Value's Build Once, Sell Twice. The techniques, strategies, and tactics I will be referring to...
A short story to explain how one sentence rewired my understanding of how the world actually works: A few years ago, I paid a small fortune...
Leverage allows you to accomplish 100x what others can – it is a force multiplier for your effort, skill, and judgement.
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Author & Illustrator: Aaron Aalto (Twitter)I studied industrial design at the Savannah College of Art and Design. As a student, I got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apprentice in...
Author: Louis Pereira Often in life, there lies a metaphorical river between where you are and where you want to go. You want to swim across,...
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No matter how much you like something or “scratching your own itch”, motivation is a luxury that comes and goes. Your mind will start to play tricks with you and question everything: Luckily, the rules have changed. I had stumbled upon a mystical black and white instagram-page. I clicked the link in bio, and discovered this mental goldmine.
