Thomas Wong

Value Creator | Talk about taking action | Sharing my journey here | Building a creator business in public

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

A-B-C.

A... Always
B... Be
C... Creating

It takes brass balls to put yourself out there and create content to serve people.

Always Be Creating.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@aakashgupta It is sad to see the games are now so expensive to make. They are not 10x better than before.

By the way, the price barely move because no one expect to pay $100+ for one video game and the dev will lose to competitors.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@Tim_Denning Dream life

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@dickiebush Always

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

AI Urgency is Fake - You Have More Time Than You Think

[Stijn Noorman @stijnnoorman]

Ideas are assets.
Books are assets.
Videos are assets.
Visuals are assets.
Courses are assets.
Newsletters are assets.
Other products are assets.
Tweets and threads are assets.
Your audience and email list are assets.

Become an Asset Creator.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@AnthonyVicino Sounds like a race to the bottom. Help people with short attention span to read even shorter text. People will only get lazier but not smarter.

[Rian Doris @RianSweetDoris]

Purpose - the belief that your work affects something beyond yourself - upgrades your perception of effort from “expense” to “investment”.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@fortelabs I think we spent more time to tweak the prompts, edit and double check the results. We spend time differently. But overall we are not saving time as much time as we think.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@Tim_Denning Start small, get into the motion, enter the flow state, rest and repeat.

[Jay Clouse @jayclouse]

There's a difference between an audience and a crowd:

A crowd gathers for a spectacle.

An audience trusts the person at the center of the show.

We're transitioning from an attention economy to a trust economy.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@readswithravi Being ready is a lie. It is not requirement.

[Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦 Creative Entrepreneur @robertoblake]

The Audience Comes FIRST. Period.

Most Creators don’t want to hear this, but then will complain about why they don’t have the audience they want.

And why someone they feel is less deserving and doesn’t make better videos (better quality, more effort), is growing more than them.

Value for the Viewer is the first Commandment of being a content creator.

Not scratching your own itch or satisfying your own boredom.

Let me help you be clear about something…

Are you doing this a passion project or is it a business?

A business is beholden to the customers.

If you feel your personal passion comes before value for the viewer and you can’t put the audience first..,

This is fine to be a hobby, it’s dangerous to try to make this your living and rely on it for your bills if that is your mindset.

A full-time creator, who never wants to suffer with financial anxiety and money trauma can’t afford to think like an artist.

(I told you this will hurt some feelings).

An “artist” that otherwise has a a steady job can make whatever they want. Many of you should put up with a 9-5 job if it hurts to “to comprise your art for money” or not put passion and expression first.

I’m not saying this to be cruel.
I’m saying it to be realistic about how it is. And the favorite creator you want to cherry pick to prove me wrong is an outlier of an outlier….

And if you were an outlier of an outlier, you’d be one, and not be bothered to argue with me…

I’ve always been abundantly upfront about this …

I am ONLY and mean this sincerely… talking to Creators for whom making money and serving an audience are the top 2 of their 3 biggest priorities.

Nobody for whom that is the case ever needs to listen to me.

I’ve always been upfront about that.

You can’t promise people a Barbecue Joint… have a crisis of conscience, become a Vegan, and then simultaneously be sad you lost all your business…

You can make what you want to make, but then you can’t be upset that an audience abandons you for someone who will put them first…

The audience has too many good options to tolerate anything else…

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@fortelabs Why not do both? Not mutually exclusive.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@Jayyanginspires Always remember we always have a choice. We choose to pay that price.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@BStulberg The true excellence requires boring and repetitive work. Nothing performative. Young people need to realize social media is not the reality!

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@Dexerto @robertoblake Bad move

[Starter Story @starter_story]

This is why you should start your own business.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@robertoblake Don’t let fear hold us back.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@jayclouse Building trust is the way to thrive (or survive) in the AI age as a creator.

[Thomas Wong @thethomaswong]

@Ritwikdau @pmitu I think they are agent smith rather than Neo😅