"Play iterated games with long-term people." - Naval Ravikant
Don't chase quick money like affiliate marketing (yes, I made my first 10k with it, but you'll think short-term).
If social media gets filled with AI slop, the only way to stand out is by making real, authentic content that builds real connections and trust. Then, use AI to speed up your content creation process.
If you want to be unstoppable, Learn to build and sell.
Elon Musk wrote Zip2's code, led Tesla/SpaceX engineering, raises multi-billion rounds on Twitter threads.
The builder-seller never waits in line.
The internet gave 8 billion people the chance to start 8 billion businesses.
Yet most people haven't figured this out.
You can:
- Set up a Shopify store in minutes,
- Grow an audience on social media,
- Run ads to get customers.
This is the best time to be alive.
Yes, you can make millions with these models, but you'll think short-term, chasing quick money. And the connections you make will have the same intention of getting maximum profit from you.
The action plan:
1. Stop chasing "hot" skills everyone else is learning
2. Follow your genuine curiosity
3. Build weird combinations of interests
4. Document your journey publicly
5. Get your hands dirty with real projects
Make yourself impossible to replace.
But there's hope: Specific knowledge. "
Specific knowledge is the knowledge you cannot be trained for. It's found by pursuing genuine curiosity and passion, not what's hot right now." - Naval Ravikant
Specific knowledge is taught through apprenticeships and by getting your hands dirty, not in schools.
Schools make you replaceable. Side projects make you irreplaceable.