Stop looking for the magic pill to make something happen and focus on taking micro steps & actions that build up to real progress. No one will write headlines or feature you in Vogue but you must do right by your self and put in the effort to reap the rewards.

There is no magic button. There are no magic pills. If you truly seek to change your life, you've got to create that change. You can talk all you want about the life you want to live, but if you're not out there doing something to create that life, your life will remain the same.

NOTHING changes unless YOU change. Stop wishing. Start creating. Stop talking. Start doing. The life you truly want to live is possible, you've just got to make that possibility happen.

Outcomes

How do you disagree with someone who has more power or is important to you?

How do you decide whether it’s worth speaking up?

What exactly should you say?

All these things impact your outcomes.

So what can you do?

Do not attend every argument you’re invited to.

This is a powerful construct. Embrace it. How?

You have to consider the end state in your mind and evaluate if

1)Is it worth disagreeing over?

2)1 Year from now will it matter?

3)Are you doing it to be right or doing it because its the right thing to do?

4)If you do not participate, does it negatively impact any thing?

Most things can be broken down to these simple parts. Not every thing is worth disagreeing about. Pause. Reflect. Stay.

One New Thing (that I learnt recently)

The 1st mobile phone call was made by the inventor Martin Cooper on April 3, 1973 to troll his competitor at AT&T. His message? "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone,"

As a 45-year-old research director leading a team at Motorola, he made the historic call using a prototype Dyna-Tac. Although reporters were present, it wasn't recorded.

"I was calling Joel Engel who was my antagonist, my counterpart at AT&T, which at the time was the biggest company in the world. We were a little company in Chicago. They considered us to be a flea on an elephant.

"I said 'Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone.' There was a silence at the other end. I suspect he was grinding his teeth."

Boring Stuff that Scales

By Repurposing content

• Turn your newsletter into tweets

• Turn your blog posts into books

• Turn your videos into podcasts

There are many options to monetize boring things. Make digital scarcity possible. Recurring revenue stems from royalties on secondary sales. I get many questions asking the what and how, so here you go.

You can :

• Sell stuff/merch on Printful

• Chat with fans on Subtext

• Sell courses on Teachable

• Offer memberships on Patreon

• Give shoutouts videos on Cameo

It's a cycle, create once, distribute many times across many genres and many platforms. Distribution utilization is a super. The ability to create and share work has become  accessible. 

• Merch is designed in Figma and fulfilled by Printful

• Newsletters are written on laptops and sent via email. 

• Movies are filmed on Cell phones and shared on Youtube

• Songs are made on laptops, sent to Distrokid and heard on Spotify and Soundcloud.

This content is repurposed to prove that point. But not monetized to prove an other.

What you should be Reading

"Steal Like An Artist" by Austin Kleon. An inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age, Steal Like an Artist presents ten transformative principles that will help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life. We put far too much pressure on ourselves as creatives. The simple fact is that no one really knows what they’re doing. This book describes the phrase “fake it till you make it”, not in a way of pretending to be something you’re not, but pretending to make something until you actually make something. Figuring it out along the way. Don’t wait until you know who you are before you get started.

Monetize your time

Spend at least an hour a day discovering new things which may or may not be related to your current focus. The exploration habit expands horizons, feeds curiosity and keeps one optimistic. What have you discovered recently that amazed you?

Made in Pakistan

10$ K Dreams. To finance a 10k USD A month dream. You don’t really need to disrupt any one. You don’t need to raise any thing, besides your work ethic & start executing.Its a small data problem at under $340 a day. Monetize your skills. It won’t happen on day 1, but can in a few yrs.

One Last Thing

A podcast with Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs. The whole episode generated by AI. This is un settling. Gives us directionality on what is to come. More here.