eryc
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The things we used to do before tailwind bro.
I think venture capital overestimates the creativity of consumers and their drive to build their own agents and apps. When I was a cartoonist, winning awards and self-publishing graphic novels and mini comics for teenage girls, I had a distaste for "talkers." Talkers are people always talking about the great idea that they'll one day make (maybe you could do some free work and help them?). They were in love with their own ideas, but somehow never seemed prioritise doing the work to realise those ideas. Mind you writing and drawing are free activities and nothing stops a person from putting pen to paper and describing the comic in a script and shipping that around to different Publishers and artists to try to get by-in. The barrier to entry is literally words. In this new era, the barrier to entry is also literally words. But words and ease of use are not what stops people from doing the things that they want to do. A motivated person will learn how to code or how to speak a new language or how to draw because they want what is on the other side of that effort. Many people have ideas, but they do not prioritise creation or want to be a creator, deep in their heart. Other things are more important, like their pride or their leisure time. Not everyone is a creator. There is a smaller total addressable market of creators than most investors and founders realise. Of course you can help more creators ship by reducing the level of effort required to create. But all you're doing is expanding the total addressable Market, which will always be a fraction of the total population. It is much smaller than you think, as most people do NOT have ideas. And of those who do, even fewer have motivation to make their ideas reality, even when the barrier to it is removed (think of powerful people with many resources who spend their time sleeping on yachts Vs building monuments or writing books). Only a fraction of the population wants to build. "In this world, there are Talkers and there are Doers. I am a Doer." This is what I used to say to young people who wanted to make comics and ask for advice. Lately, I hear my younger self's words ring in my ears. I would like to be more like them
Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we want on X: We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language. While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform. We invite creators to start building an audience locally. X will be a much richer community when there's relevant posts for people in all parts of the world.
