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Twitter advice from a đ
In 2020, I got Twitter advice from my old boss Hamlet Batista.
He had 10,000 followers and was getting flown around the world for conferences all thanks to Twitter.
Well, I listened closely.
Over the next 3 years, Iâd go from 0 â 18,000+ followers and make hundreds of thousands of dollars on Twitter.
In 72 hours, Iâm publishing his advice plus more:
No one taught me
I was like damn
Fuck it I'll do it myself
No one puttin me on, damn
Fuck it I'll do it myself
Everyone scared to go talk to her
Fuck it I'll do it myself
Everyone scared to be number one
Fuck it I'll do it myself
When I was a freshman in college, I played this song constantly.
Russ records, mixes, and masters all of his music. Most rappers donât do this. They just rap the track and let engineers do the rest. (Half the time, they donât even write their own verses).
But when Russ started rapping, he couldnât afford an engineer for every song so he learned how to do it himself. He wasnât gonna let a lack of money or network stop him from releasing dope music every week.
At the time, I was running an e-commerce brand and was inspired by Russ. I couldnât afford to hire someone so I did everything myselfâproducts, Photoshop, video, Shopify, social media.
Nowadays, Iâd try to partner up and hire out, but I didnât have the network, money, or reputation to do thatâso I did it all myself. And thank God I did. I use those skills above everyday! Iâm so happy I didnât let a lack of money, network, or reputation stop me from making cool shit.
I donât know how = I donât know how (yet)
The only way youâre gonna build skills and win online is by learning yourself.
No one is going to watch tutorials for you. No one is going to start a blog for you. No one is coming to save you. Youâre going to have to learn the skills.
Everyone lookin at me confused
Came a long way from 100 views
Fuck me? shit then fuck you too
Fuck it I'll do it myself
If you want to make cool shit online, then you have 2 options:
Fuck it, Iâll do it myself (and learn the skills)
Fuck it, I wonât do it, itâs too hard
I suggest option 1. Itâs much more fun. It wonât be pretty, youâll cringe looking back in 10 years. But who cares? Youâll have fun and you need to make a lot of uncool shit to get good enough to make cool shit.
Once you make a lot of uncool shit, youâll start to figure out your superpowers. What are you exceptionally good at? Once you figure out your superpowers, you can start making money and building up your reputation for that skill. Then itâs time to stop doing everything yourself.
What Iâve come to learn after years of internet hustling:
Do It Yourself does NOT mean Do It Alone.
DIY = Do It Yourself.
It does not mean Do It Alone.
Team is key.
Crew up with the correct people & DIY.— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab)
Sep 1, 2023
âIâm a DIY pioneer,â sings Russ in Do It Myself. But he doesnât really do everything himself. When he was 17 dropping mixtapes, he did the music, art, and planning concerts himself.
But now he sticks to his superpowers (music) and has partners for everything else. Heâs worked with the same album art designers for 5+ years. But he couldnât get to that place without doing everything himself first and learning what his superpower was: music.
Film director Christopher Nolan did the same thing. When he was younger, Nolan made an entire movie with no budget. He learned how to do all the tasks from writing to directing to editing. When he had a real budget, he knew what his superpower was and where he should delegate.
Iâm learning to do the same thing and focus on my superpowers. I stick to the writing and partnered up with a videographer. Iâve done video editing since I was a little kid, but my superpower is writing so I focus on that. Do I regret âwasting timeâ editing videos as a kid? No, I got to make some cool YouTube videos. Plus it taught me that it wasnât my superpower. You need to do a lot of shit that isnât your superpower to realize what your superpower is.
If youâre early on your internet hustler journey, my advice to you is simple:
Do everything yourself first, learn a bunch of skills, find your superpower, make money and build a reputation for it
Partner with other people so you can focus on your superpower
You can only have so many superpowers in life.
So optimize to spend as much time on your superpowers as possible.
Cool Shit Corner
This week, Iâm including 1 link only because itâs that good.
Creator Logic breaks down millionaire creatorsâ businesses going into the % and $ splits of their revenue/acquisition. How much did X make in subscriptions v. ads? What % of customers came from TikTok v. YouTube?
Itâs the most well-researched, detailed newsletter on the financial side of creators Iâve ever seen on the internet.
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Memes of the Week
REJECTING stoicism is a pre requisite for great achievement
— Jash Dholani (@oldbooksguy)
Sep 1, 2023
Mick Jagger is 80. Mitch McConnell is 81.
The benefits of a life of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll should not be ignored.
— dennis hegstad (@dennishegstad)
Sep 1, 2023
FINALLY đ„ł
— Jonathan Howard (@staringispolite)
Sep 2, 2023
If Europe replaced their castles with affordable multi-family housing units their economy would probably be doing better.
Really makes you think.
— Jack Raines (@Jack_Raines)
Aug 31, 2023
This copywriter either got fired or is now president of Ray-ban, no inbetween
— Jason Levin (@iamjasonlevin)
Aug 30, 2023
Thanks for reading nerds.
Create some cool shit this week.
Jason Levin
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