Welcome back Nick! We've missed you and your doodles!🩷
I really like how you move beyond the usual quality vs quantity debate, it feels a bit outdated at this point. Curious to see how you build a system that allows quality and volume to coexist. That feels like the real challenge. Here for the ride!!🦩
Nick, Butters needs a second Labubu stat. The doggo has been working hard from the sounds of things!
I quickly unsub from anyone who fills up my inbox with over publishing (I start getting super suspicious when I see the same name three days a week, very few have that much to say all the time), so you are a definite exception because I actually missed your posts! Very interested to see where you end up with this. We can sit on our high horses as much as we want but at the end of the day, I do think so much is about how we adapt to the world we live in while still somehow being proud of what we create.
Butters has been compensated. (Treats. Not Labubus. Turns out... He doesn't have the attention span for collectibles like I do.)
The over-publishing suspicion is fair. Three posts a week from anyone should earn its frequency. The goal is making daily worth opening, not just worth sending.
That's the system I'm building now... Hopefully no more meltdowns this round.
One thing you’ve definitely got right —and don’t change it!— is your delivery. It is so refreshing to read something that is real, and your writing has it in spades (unless you’ve perfected your VoicePrint so well it’s doing the talking)!
Please “don’t go changin’” (thanks for that one, Billy Joel).
If the Voiceprint were doing the talking, it would be more organized and less likely to insult its own publishing strategy in the third paragraph. The chaos is still handmade.
(Billy Joel would've published daily. He just would've called it an album.)
Yes, it can be done. You have the right components with Vast. I do not know all the architecture that goes into your system, but I know three people who, in my humble opinion, have gotten it right. We built one for a Marketing Company.There is still a human in the loop. Like yourself, it takes a ton of trial and error. I am looking forward to the success of the system.
The trial and error is the whole story. The system I have now looks nothing like the one I started with. And the one I have in three months probably won't look like this one either.
Appreciate the encouragement. The human-in-the-loop part is where we agree completely.
Trial and error is the whole story. When we run into our biggest issues, an opportunity for significant growth emerges. Through this process, what we end up with should not look like what we started with. Only a much more potent, refined vision of our original idea.
'And I’ve watched newsletters with zero distinctive voice outgrow mine by 10x because they post three times a day and I post once.'
Yes, this is disheartening. Personally, I don't want - or have time - to read 3 posts a day from anyone. I prefer 1-2 good quality post that I genuinely look forward to reading, rather than even more to put on my digital TBR pile. I recognise that I may not be the norm.
Good luck with your new strategy. I'll be watching with interest (-:
The digital TBR pile is real and I refuse to contribute to it. Daily doesn't have to mean long. Some days it's a quick framework or a single observation. The test is whether it earns the open, not whether it fills a word count.
Appreciate you watching. I'll try to stay off the pile.
Welcome back Nick! We've missed you and your doodles!🩷
I really like how you move beyond the usual quality vs quantity debate, it feels a bit outdated at this point. Curious to see how you build a system that allows quality and volume to coexist. That feels like the real challenge. Here for the ride!!🦩
The doodles missed you too.
(They told me. It got awkward.) 😜
And yeah, the quality vs. quantity framing was always incomplete.
The real challenge is building the machine that makes both possible without one eating the other. That's the series now.
I missed you so much, I’m featuring you in tomorrow’s post as a welcome back. 🩷🦩
Nick, Butters needs a second Labubu stat. The doggo has been working hard from the sounds of things!
I quickly unsub from anyone who fills up my inbox with over publishing (I start getting super suspicious when I see the same name three days a week, very few have that much to say all the time), so you are a definite exception because I actually missed your posts! Very interested to see where you end up with this. We can sit on our high horses as much as we want but at the end of the day, I do think so much is about how we adapt to the world we live in while still somehow being proud of what we create.
Butters has been compensated. (Treats. Not Labubus. Turns out... He doesn't have the attention span for collectibles like I do.)
The over-publishing suspicion is fair. Three posts a week from anyone should earn its frequency. The goal is making daily worth opening, not just worth sending.
That's the system I'm building now... Hopefully no more meltdowns this round.
One thing you’ve definitely got right —and don’t change it!— is your delivery. It is so refreshing to read something that is real, and your writing has it in spades (unless you’ve perfected your VoicePrint so well it’s doing the talking)!
Please “don’t go changin’” (thanks for that one, Billy Joel).
If the Voiceprint were doing the talking, it would be more organized and less likely to insult its own publishing strategy in the third paragraph. The chaos is still handmade.
(Billy Joel would've published daily. He just would've called it an album.)
Yes, it can be done. You have the right components with Vast. I do not know all the architecture that goes into your system, but I know three people who, in my humble opinion, have gotten it right. We built one for a Marketing Company.There is still a human in the loop. Like yourself, it takes a ton of trial and error. I am looking forward to the success of the system.
The trial and error is the whole story. The system I have now looks nothing like the one I started with. And the one I have in three months probably won't look like this one either.
Appreciate the encouragement. The human-in-the-loop part is where we agree completely.
Trial and error is the whole story. When we run into our biggest issues, an opportunity for significant growth emerges. Through this process, what we end up with should not look like what we started with. Only a much more potent, refined vision of our original idea.
'And I’ve watched newsletters with zero distinctive voice outgrow mine by 10x because they post three times a day and I post once.'
Yes, this is disheartening. Personally, I don't want - or have time - to read 3 posts a day from anyone. I prefer 1-2 good quality post that I genuinely look forward to reading, rather than even more to put on my digital TBR pile. I recognise that I may not be the norm.
Good luck with your new strategy. I'll be watching with interest (-:
The digital TBR pile is real and I refuse to contribute to it. Daily doesn't have to mean long. Some days it's a quick framework or a single observation. The test is whether it earns the open, not whether it fills a word count.
Appreciate you watching. I'll try to stay off the pile.
Yo thank you for writing. I’ll be following with interest. This space is very much on my mind.