Nicholas secor

If you make content about stuff you did and share the lessons you learned, you'll do well. If you make content about stuff other people did, and share their lessons, you'll do poorly. Do cool stuff Talk about it Make money Invest money in doing cooler stuff Repeat.

No one can do what they love for work, unless you stay purposefully very small. That saying only works in the vague, never in the specific. There are just too many things that suck that have to happen in a business. And 100% of businesses have them. And when you’re starting out - the person who has to do them is disproportionately - you. So it’s less about “doing what you love” and more about “loving something enough to do things you hate” And I think this is the core misunderstanding of people who look at their jobs and say they hate them. Or get into their first business and think they need to quit because “it’s not for them”. Most things worth doing are hard. If they weren’t, someone would’ve come along and done it already. The world is looking for something who loves a customer enough, hates a problem enough, or both to go through hell to make a dent. I say this to say: You will not love what you do but you may love what comes as a result of your doing. And - that - can get you through the many nights weekends and years of doing things you hate to get it. So it’s not “do what you love” it’s “find something you’re willing to suffer for.” (And that can be your family, a cause, an inconvenience the masses endure, or something you think you can do better). There is no better or worse reason. Only reasons that pull you through the dark times and ones that don’t.