Make rules that work for you
jasonleow • 3 Jun 2024 •
I really like this tweet by Tim Ferriss:
I like to study what Seth Godin doesn’t do as much as what he does. Seth has no comments on his blog, he doesn’t pay attention to analytics, and he doesn’t use Twitter or Facebook (except to rebroadcast his daily blog posts, which is automated). In a world of tool obsession and FOMO (fear of missing out) on the next social platform, Seth doesn’t appear to care. He simply focuses on putting out good and short daily posts, he ignores the rest, and he continues to thrive.
There are no real rules, so make rules that work for you.
Even Seth Godin, marketing maestro extraordinaire, doesn’t care about Twitter or Facebook. He does what works for him. And who reads blogs these days? Yet, it still works for him!
So that begs the question ain’t it… why should we indie hackers post on X, have an audience, or do anything at all, just because everyone is?
That’s food for thought for sure.
I’ve come to believe that entrepreneurship is a choose-your-own-adventure game of a million possible paths, each with a million possible successful outcomes. Sure, read up and be aware how others do it. But don’t blindly follow. Or better yet, just don’t bother reading. Much easier to chart your own path from making your own mistakes than figure out your path while making other people’s mistakes.
"There are no real rules, so make rules that work for you."
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Yeah I guess the point I was trying to make was how he found his own way, with mix of legacy and offline approaches. I think we can find our own ways too, without blindly following fads
That may be true, but as large a celebrity that he is, people know where to find him and how to engage with him. I suspect it wasn’t always the case that he didn’t do social style self-promotion. The way SEO seems to be going these days (with Google favoring larger established brands rather than smaller indie sites, no matter who provides the more “useful” content) I don’t see how you could just write and build a following from scratch.