Dan didn't get to 5M followers by being the most talented. He got there by being the most deliberate.
Study what works. Reverse-engineer it. Make it your own.
What's your take โ is this the future of content creation, or does it risk making everything feel formulaic?
Dan Koe got paid $250,000 for one article.
The most viewed article in X history.
But it didn't go viral because he's a once-in-a-generation talent. It went viral because of a system a boring, repeatable, unsexy system that almost nobody actually follows.
Here's the breakdown๐
What Eden is NOT: an auto-writer. Dan will never let AI write his newsletter. He loves the craft too much.
Eden is a studio for your mind. The AI is a thought partner. Not a replacement.
๐ https://t.co/yAHodDOf6C
Here's the problem now: AI made everyone sound the same.
Remove most creators' faces from their content, and it could've been written by anyone โ which means it could also be written by ChatGPT.
@tishray the problem with productivity culture these days it pushes the idea that having more tasks is productive but it's the opposite, doing less will get you more done.
@RyanHoliday Quran
The One Things by Gary Keller
The war of art by Steven Pressfield
The freelance Manifesto @jkorenman
This my most re-read list for me