{"id":11850,"date":"2022-06-01T20:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/?p=11850"},"modified":"2023-02-16T01:18:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T01:18:37","slug":"vector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/vector\/","title":{"rendered":"articulate your vector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>WIP \u2013 will update over time<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this is a video I made fairly quickly off the cuff after a conversation with someone, and several people have told me that it&#8217;s some of my best work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>chapter notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>people have ideas but don&#8217;t want responsibility<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>many people are happy + eager to be silent or silent-ish helpers to someone who&#8217;s willing to be more public\/visible <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyonce is a team effort<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be a strategic player \u2013 see: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1WVN7DZYWwDXOV-hwFbIYUvv3u17e_h3VS1QZZmIGNY0\/edit?usp=sharing\">LessUnstrategic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to get lucky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Optimize for survival<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evaluate your body of work<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teach people to appreciate your work<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Advice for creatives: articulate your vector\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r80xzfvtmVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>text from previous thread\/blogpost:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I&#39;ll even give you the ideas!&quot;<br><br>\u2013 6 yo begging me to tell him more stories<\/p>&mdash; Paul Graham (@paulg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulg\/status\/1080763092932259841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>^ this is a very real and underestimated phenomenon. If you make twitter threads, people start contributing to them, allowing you to do more than you can personally conceive. If there is a clear vector, people like to contribute to it. Few people like (or are good at) creating and sustaining vectors for other people to contribute to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve met a lot of people who feel overwhelmed by the prospect of doing big things. But actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/talking-for-writers\/\">just do small things<\/a> as much as you can and the market will pull the good stuff out of you, help you along the way. Some of my bestselling t-shirts at <a href=\"http:\/\/statement.sg\">@jibabom<\/a> were suggested by customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I repeat\u2026 if you\u2019re moderately good at articulating something, just enough to strike a nerve, people with relevant experiences and ideas etc will start telling you their stories and dramatically level up your understanding + ability to articulate it even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, by the way, is why top-tier storytellers, performers, artists, authors etc seem to be so much stratospherically better than beginners, amateurs &amp; enthusiasts. They have entire support teams not only helping them but <em>leveling them up<\/em>. Sparring with the mega-mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, people will also beat the shit out of you. It\u2019s not all sunshine. And nice people tend to hesitate while assholes do not, so you do have to put in effort to encourage the support you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I\u2019ve been doing on Twitter over time is carefully tending to the 1-2% of my best reply folks for a decade. If my mentions seem like a rather wholesome and nourishing space, this is a significant part of why. <a href=\"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/1000\/0745-encourage-weirdos-discourage-assholes\/\">Encourage weirdos, discourage assholes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you collect something in public, people will start contributing to your collection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My silly little memos collection has brought me so much joy. What\u2019s been most gratifying is people I\u2019ve never heard of sending me new memos to add almost everyday!<\/p>&mdash; Sriram Krishnan &#8211; sriramk.eth (@sriramk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sriramk\/status\/1198455473789440001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIP \u2013 will update over time this is a video I made fairly quickly off the cuff after a conversation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directives"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5wrnV-vector","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11955,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions\/11955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}