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多兴趣不是毛病,缺的是「载体」

多兴趣者最大的浪费不是分心,而是没把兴趣装进一个能持续产出与分发的系统(vessel)。

2026-01-13
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核心观点

  • 多兴趣的优势在「交叉口」而不在「平均用力」 你的护城河不是某个技能熟练度,而是跨域连接后形成的独特判断(opinion / perspective)。AI 复制技能越来越快,但复制你的视角越来越难。
  • 学习≠进步:没有载体,学习只是在取悦自我 Dan 说的 tutorial hell 本质是“用懂了的快感替代做成的结果”。你缺的不是再学一门,而是一个逼你把知识变成作品/产品的容器。
  • 注意力与分发是最后的杠杆 当“人人都能写/做软件”时,差异不在生产能力,而在谁能把东西送到用户眼前并建立信任。没有 distribution,做 SaaS 也只是多跑一场马拉松。
  • 两条路径:Skill-based vs Development-based 前者容易把你锁死在一个小盒子里再造一个 9-5;后者把“你自己”当 customer avatar:追自己的目标(brand)→公开输出学习(content)→把路径产品化(product)。多兴趣者更该走后者。
  • 把内容当成系统工程,而不是灵感 他的三步法很实用:建立 idea museum(高信号素材库)→按“idea density”筛选→把一个想法写 1000 种结构。核心是把创作变成可复制流程。

跟我们的关联

### 👤ATou 你 2026 主攻海外增长/品牌,本质就是“分发能力 + 观点密度”。这篇提醒你:不要把多兴趣当负担,把它当“跨域视角库存”,然后用一个载体(比如 reads + newsletter + 产品化的小工具/方法)把库存变现。

### 🧠Neta Context Engineering 的终局不是“会写 prompt”,而是“能用多域知识做决策并持续迭代”。多兴趣=更大的 context 面积;载体=把 context 变成可交付物(agent workflow / playbook / 产品)。

讨论引子

1. 你现在的“多兴趣”里,哪些其实只是逃避主线的廉价多巴胺?怎么识别? 2. 对你来说最合适的 vessel 是什么:内容系统、产品、服务、还是一个长期研究主题? 3. 如果必须砍掉 80% 的学习时间,你会保留哪 20% 的输入源?为什么?

如果你有很多兴趣,别浪费接下来的 2–3 年

社会让你以为:兴趣很多是一种弱点。

去上学。

拿学位。

找工作。

某个时候退休。

但这套顺序里,问题多得离谱。

我们早就不活在工业时代了。把自己押注在单一技能上,几乎等于自寻死路。我觉得到这个节点,我们都知道:机械式生活、筒仓式学习,对你的心智与灵魂有多危险。而且人们也能感觉到:我们正在经历第二次文艺复兴。你的好奇心与对学习的热爱,是当今世界的优势——但这里面少了一个关键环节。

很长一段时间里,我一直学、一直学、一直学。我被困在“教程地狱”里。有人会用“闪亮物体综合征”来指出你不够专注。我靠“感觉自己很聪明”来分泌多巴胺,但我的人生并没有发生多大变化。说实话,我觉得自己只是越来越落后。大学里我试了太多不同的东西。我曾梦想做自己的事……靠创造性的东西赚到收入……但在花了 5 年“学习”之后,我被现实迎面痛击:为了活下去,我只能去找一份我能找到的最好工作。

缺的那块拼图,是一个载体。

一个能让我把所有兴趣汇入有意义的工作、并从中赚到体面收入的载体。

如果你曾因为“选不出一个方向”而内疚;如果你曾被人要求“收窄赛道”,而你的心智却想扩张;如果你曾怀疑是否存在一条路,不会把你带到你在别人眼里看见的那种痛苦——那么,现在是活着最好的时代。

下面是我能想到的 7 个最有说服力的观点。我们会先理解:为什么在今天,兴趣广泛是一种超能力;然后我会给你一些可执行的步骤,把它变成你的人生事业。要聊的很多,希望你愿意跟我一起走完这趟。

那个一生只重复少数几个简单操作的人……通常会变得尽可能愚蠢、无知。——亚当·斯密

斯密先生,你说得真“妙”,因为这种人就是你们造出来的,而我们至今仍在承受它的反噬。

专业化在工业化时期占了上风:例如在一家别针工厂里,一个工人把每一步都做完,一天只能做 20 枚别针;但如果让很多工人各自只做其中一步,一天就能做出 48,000 枚。

于是我们围绕这种模型,建造了整个世界。

人类变成了朝九晚五的流水线。因为说白了,政府不服务“国家利益”,而服务自己的利益;公司也不服务“员工利益”,而服务自己的利益。

学校就是为这种利益设计的。它们唯一的目的,是制造准时、服从的工厂工人。

但这不是人该过的生活。

如果你希望掌握那种“高度专门化”的知识,以至于你永远无法运营一个系统——尤其无法运营你自己的系统——那么你就会在教育上依赖学校、在收入上依赖工作。你会被骗去相信:专业化让人有价值;但现实已经清清楚楚地表明,系统并不需要你这个“特定的人”去做那项特定的任务。

区别就在这里。

如果纯粹的专业化会让人变笨、变得依赖,那么,是什么让一个个体变得聪明且自主?

三个要素:自我教育、自我利益、自我自足。

自我教育很清楚:如果你想获得与传统教育不同的结果,你就必须主导自己的学习。

“自我利益”听起来会让人警觉。它听上去自私、短视,很多人不加思考就把它当成坏事。但它的意思只是“关心自身利益”,因为唯一的替代方案,是去服务于构成当下社会的那些组织的利益——我们已经谈过了。换句话说,追随你的兴趣,因为你的兴趣完全可能以一种无私的方式让别人受益——这取决于你的认知与道德发展水平。哦对了,沉溺于短暂快感(廉价多巴胺)通常并不是你的利益,而是那些从你的麻木中获利的公司的利益。

在安·兰德看来,真正“自私”的人,是一个自尊、自立的人:他既不把他人牺牲给自己,也不把自己牺牲给他人。这同时否定了掠食者与擦脚垫。

自我自足,是拒绝把你的判断、学习与能动性外包出去。如果说自我教育是引擎,自我利益是指南针,那么自我自足就是地基:它能防止你的人生方向被另一股力量劫持。三者相互协作,但并不完全相互依赖。

通才,会自然从这个三角结构里长出来。

自我利益驱动自我教育。

你学习,是因为它真实地服务于你的兴盛,而不是因为有人给你布置了任务。

自我教育促成自我自足。

你只能在你理解的领域里拥有主权。

自我自足澄清自我利益。

当你不再依赖他人的解读,你才能真正看见什么在服务于你。大多数人追逐多个兴趣,是为了逃离自己的工作;当你的兴趣变成你的工作、甚至你的人生事业时,其中大多数就会被自然筛掉。

当我们看那些我们真正敬佩的 CEO、创始人或创作者时,他们都是通才。

他们懂足够多的营销,能指挥它;懂足够多的产品,能把它造出来;也懂足够多的人性,能带领他人。但他们还必须掌舵:当环境变化时,他们需要学习与适应。

更重要的是,他们明白:跨领域的观念彼此互补,会形成一种独特的看世界方式——让他们能从以太里捕捉到新颖想法,并把它翻译成市场价值。

当我们看清当今世界的样子,并且你理解到:机会不只属于“领导者”,也属于单个个体——你会发现,作为一个天生的博学者,你拥有的选项非常广阔。它应该会让你兴奋得发抖。

研究艺术的科学,研究科学的艺术。发展你的感官——尤其要学会如何看见。要意识到:万物彼此相连。——莱昂纳多·达·芬奇

在我看来,最终的护城河——或者说,最后一个值得付费的竞争优势——是一个“观点”。

一种只有你能看见的视角,因为它由你独一无二的生命经验塑造而成。这可能正是别人最难复制的东西。

既然这一直都成立,那为什么不从现在开始就把它当成优先级?尤其是在自动化已经近在眼前的时候。

但你要如何把它当成优先级?又如何发展它?

靠追逐多个兴趣,并用它们去建造某个东西。

你看,你追过的每一个兴趣,都会留下沉淀;每一个兴趣都会增加你能建立的连接数量;每一个兴趣都会扩展并加深你建模与解释现实的复杂度。你的现实模型越复杂,你就能解决越多问题,看见越多机会,创造越多价值。专业化会彻底中止这一过程,而你的“闪亮物体综合征”一直在试图告诉你这一点。

从出生到现在,你一直在培养一种别人看不见的“看法”。一种 AI 只有在你告诉它该想什么时,才会想到的看法。

学过心理学与设计的人,会用不同于纯设计师的方式看用户行为;学过销售与哲学的人,会用不同于纯销售的方式成交;懂健身也懂商业的人,能打造 MBA 都难以理解的健康公司。

你的优势更多来自“交叉”,而不是“专精”。

这正是我们在当下回归、且力量更强的文艺复兴里看到的模式。

想一想是什么让它成为可能……

在印刷机出现之前,知识是稀缺的。

书要手工抄写。一篇文本可能需要抄写员花几个月才能誊写完。图书馆很少见。识字的人更少。如果你想学你行当之外的东西,你要么能接触到修道院,要么就学不到。

然后,古腾堡改变了一切。

在 50 年里,2,000 万本书涌入欧洲。过去需要几代人才能传播开的思想,现在几个月就能传遍。识字率爆炸式增长。知识的成本崩塌。

历史上第一次,一个人在一生中现实地追求多个领域的精通,变得可能。

于是,文艺复兴发生了。

达·芬奇没有“只选一件事”。他画画、雕塑、工程、解剖学、设计战争机器、绘制人体结构。米开朗基罗既是画家,也是雕塑家、建筑师与诗人。

独特的头脑终于能够以它们本应有的方式运作。

它们本该跨越学科、综合连接,并把好奇心追到它引向的任何地方——但我们大多数人从未意识到这一点。

印刷机,是一种新型人物出现的催化剂:一种能学任何东西、组合一切东西、并创造出任何专门化人才都造不出的东西的人。

如果你喜欢这些信,我每周会发 1–2 次。

如果你希望在它们发出时收到提醒(因为算法大概率不会把它们推给你)。

目前我们已经知道几件事:

  • 你兴趣很多,但你感觉自己不可能永远学下去

  • 你热爱以兴趣为导向的自我教育,但你不得不在本职工作之外挤时间来做

  • 你明白自我自足的必要性,但你还觉得自己没有“值得别人付费”的价值

  • 你需要快速适应,因为我们不知道未来的工作会长成什么样

那么问题是:如何把这一切融合成一种生活方式?

如何把“学习”和“赚钱”融合成你可以用来工作的同一件事?

我会尽量把它讲得足够逻辑清晰。

要从你的兴趣里赚钱,你需要让别人也对它们产生兴趣。这一点很简单:你能对某件事产生兴趣,别人也可以;你只是必须学会说服。

进一步说,你还需要一种让别人付钱给你的方式。在这里通常意味着:你需要卖一个产品,因为你大概率找不到一份允许你表达兴趣的工作;而投资股票或房地产(到能有效产生结果的程度)需要不少资本。

换句话说,你需要注意力。

注意力是最后的护城河之一。

因为当任何人都能写任何东西、或构建任何软件时,谁会赢?赢的是那些被人知道的。你可以拥有世界上最好的产品,但如果没人知道它,那个能捕获并 удерж住注意力的人,会把你甩出几圈。

顺便一提,如果你一直关注科技圈:不,我并不认为每个人都会去“自己写软件”。大多数人做饭连 20 分钟都不愿意花,他们宁愿花几块钱点 Uber Eats。而且每个人都有自己想花时间做的事。

回到正题:

你需要成为一个创造者。

在你翻白眼准备退出之前,我说的并不完全是“成为内容创作者”(嗯……这很复杂)。

我的意思是:如果你不想继续为别人创造、因为你需要他们给你发工资,那么解决方案就是为你自己创造。

人类天生是创造者,只是后来被说服:当一台机器就能实现美国梦。我们骨子里是造工具的人。我们能在任何生态位里繁荣,因为我们会创造解决方案来解决问题。如果把一头狮子丢到阿拉斯加,它不会搭建庇护所、也不会做衣服;它会死。狮子属于它自己的生态位。

关键是:现在每一家企业都是媒体企业。别忘了,你需要注意力。注意力在哪里?主要在社交媒体上——直到下一个承载注意力偏好的平台出现;到那时你就需要适应。所以是的,如果你兴趣很多,成为“内容创作者”是明智的;但更容易的理解方式是:把社交媒体当作一种机制,用来把你的兴趣呈现在别人眼前。它是你做独立工作拼图中的一块。

而且,这样也把所有需求都覆盖了。

你热爱学习?太好了,把它重新框定为“研究”,现在它就字面意义上成了你的主业。我写的大多数东西,都是来自于我学习自己的兴趣,然后把社交媒体当作我在“公开做笔记”。

(你本来就会花时间学习,现在只要把这段时间用来公开学习——砰,你就有了一个生意的地基。)

你需要自我自足?那你就需要一门生意;而每门生意都需要吸引客户;而你大概对付费广告、SEO,或者任何其他营销方式都毫无兴趣。这正是很多人会卡住的地方,因为他们作为员工时习惯了:在一家公司里只做一项专门化任务。

你需要适应能力?太棒了:你可以以你构建产品的速度,把新产品构建出来并发布给你的受众。我有一个扎实的受众,如果我的下一个产品失败了,我也有人愿意投资、加入团队或支持下一个产品。你可以去建你的小 SaaS 公司,但如果你没有分发能力,你就得付出额外的“马拉松式”努力:去找资金、找人才、把事情真正推起来。

没有任何其他工作或商业模式,能让你以这么大的自由度做到这一切。

但你到底该如何开始把它建起来?

如何把这一切串成一个整体?

很遗憾,“创业”和“生意”已经成了脏词,让人觉得自己不配走那条路——甚至到了机会出现时,他们都根本注意不到的程度。

只要你曾用你的兴趣帮过别人,你就有资格开始一门生意。

它们不再需要前期资本。它们不只属于不道德的精英。它们不只是给那些想赚大钱的人。它们也不只是给有天赋或特别的人。

现实是:创业写在我们的天性里。它是现代生存。我们被“编程”去为一群志同道合的人创造并分发价值;我们被“编程”去狩猎、探索未知、追求新奇、永不停滞。从心理层面看,这是最令人享受的生活方式——哪怕会有低谷——因为正是低谷,让那些(非人为制造的)高点得以存在。

此外,入场门槛已经崩塌。

你真正需要的,只是一台电脑和一条网线。

社交媒体让分发几乎变成免费(好吧,不是免费,而是基于技能——时间成本可能很贵)。任何人都可以发布一个触达数百万人的想法;如果他有产品,那么这几百万双眼睛有可能转化为数百万美元——前提是你知道自己在做什么,而这是一大前提。大多数人只是喜欢把某个兴趣或技能练得很强,但它并不会直接影响他们的成功——可能是因为他们害怕成功这件事。

工具与技术如今能处理过去需要一整个团队才能处理的事情。你可以使用 AI 以及大量有用的软件。

现在,你有两条起步路径。

路径 1)技能导向

这是互联网长期以来的主流。你“学一门有市场的技能”。你用内容去教这门技能。然后你卖一个与这门技能相关的产品或服务。

它的限制,就是“专才”的限制:一维。你把自己装进一个盒子里。你“收窄赛道”,因为别人告诉你这样更赚钱;而当你追逐利润而不是兴趣时,你往往会把自己建成第二份朝九晚五:为你不在乎的人,做你不在乎的事。

路径 2)发展导向

现在赢的创作者,是那些没有一个能被钉死的细分领域的人。通常,他们聚焦在四个永恒市场中的一个:健康、财富、关系、幸福——甚至全都做。从技术意义上说,每个人的“细分领域”都是自我实现,只是每个人通往那里的路径都无限独特。

  • 他们追求自己的目标(品牌)。

  • 他们教授自己学到的东西(内容)。

  • 他们帮助别人更快达成目标(产品)。

对于兴趣很多的人,我显然更推荐这条路,因为它更深一层。

第一,当你走这条路时,你其实也走了第一条路。因为构建你的品牌、内容与产品,会迫使你把所有相关的市场技能都练到够好——所以即使你失败了,你也仍然拥有“值得别人付费”的东西。你是在建自己的生意;如果你在其中某个环节足够擅长,你也能去帮助别人经营他们生意的某一部分。

第二,它把传统模型彻底翻转。

你不再为了“收窄赛道”而创建一个客户画像,然后只盯着它。你把自己变成客户画像。

这会让事情顺眼得多。

你在生活里追求目标并发展自己 → 你已经验证了你将提供之物的有效性 → 你去帮助“过去的自己”更快达成同一个目标。

别当一个 YouTube 创作者。

别当一个“个人品牌”。

别当一个网红。

做你自己——但要把自己放在一个你的作品能被发现、被关注、被支持的地方。现在以及可预见的未来,这个地方就是互联网。

乔丹·彼得森(或类似的人)并不是一个“内容创作者”,即便表面看起来像。

他巡回演讲、写书、把社交媒体当作底盘,并动用一切可用工具去传播他的人生事业。他不担心最新的内容选题潮流。他的头脑碾压那些短视的增长策略。他的思想质量才是他与众不同之处,也正是它改变了人们的人生(不论你对彼得森的看法如何)。

基于此,我想给你一个关于品牌、内容与产品的不同视角,让你能把它当作你人生事业的载体。

别再把“品牌”理解为头像和社交媒体简介。

品牌,是一个让人来发生转变的环境。

品牌,是你邀请别人进入的小世界。

品牌并不是读者第一次点进你主页时就立刻“呈现”的东西。

品牌,是读者关注你 3–6 个月后,留在他脑海里那一整套观念的累积。

你要在每一个触点上,呈现你的世界观、故事与人生哲学:你的横幅图、头像、简介、简介里的链接、落地页设计、置顶内容、帖子、长推、newsletter、视频,以及其他所有。

换句话说,你的品牌是这个:

你的品牌,是你的故事。

如果你愿意,花一天把这些写出来会很有帮助:你从哪里来、你人生的“低谷”、你经历过什么、你获得了哪些技能,以及这些东西如何对你帮助最大。

当你在想点子、内容或产品时,你应该用你的故事来过滤它们。这并不意味着你必须一直谈自己;而是意味着,你要对齐你所说的一切,让你的品牌保持一致。

最难的是:意识到你的故事值得被讲出来——哪怕你觉得它很无聊,或你从未认真回望自己的成长。

重点是:

你的简介和头像并不重要。真的有人简介里只有一个词、头像就是一种纯色。

我的建议:

  • 列出 5–10 个你在网上尊敬的人

  • 看看他们的头像、简介与内容

  • 在心里记下他们之间的共同模式

  • 开始构思:你自己的品牌应该怎么做,并加上一点属于你的独特变化

说实话,我不会把这事想得太复杂,也不会太担心。你的品牌会随着你开始写内容而逐渐成形。甚至可以说,品牌就是内容,所以我们需要把内容做好。

这篇关于

世界的文章也许会有帮助。

互联网是一根信息消防水带。

AI 只会制造更多噪音。

这意味着:信任与信号比以往任何时候都更重要。

在我看来,你内容的指路明灯,应该是把尽可能好的想法汇聚到一个地方。你的品牌,就是你在互联网上的一个账号之下,用你自己的表达,收纳你在乎的一切想法。

如果你打算做播客或公开演讲,注意最好的讲者总能随时调动他们最强的 5–10 个论点或想法。他们反复讲这些东西,这就是他们建立影响力的方式。如果你没有那 5–10 个核心想法的“集合”,你的影响力就达不到本可以达到的程度。写海量内容,正是你发现这些想法的方式。

当你的内容“想法密度”随着时间与努力提高时,它才会创造出一个值得被关注、也值得被付费的品牌。

为了把想法纳入你的品牌,你的筛选目标应该落在这两者的交集:

  • 表现(Performance)——这些想法有潜力“表现得很好”。这衡量的是别人会在乎多少。

  • 兴奋(Excitement)——这些想法让你有兴奋感,想写它。这衡量的是你自己在乎多少。

艺术与商业。

数据与表现不该决定一切,但它们确实意味着一些东西。

Step 1)建立一个“点子博物馆”

你喜欢的大多数创作者的秘密是:他们会无情地整理、筛选自己的笔记、想法与灵感来源。

换句话说,他们有一份营销人所说的“swipe file”(素材库/抄袭库)。

你可以用

(如果你能用的话)、Apple Notes、Notion,或任何你想用的东西,但我想把话说得非常清楚:

你需要一个地方,让你在点子刚冒出来时就能立刻记下来。

这是一种关键习惯。

每当你发现一个有用的点子——不论是现在有用还是不久的将来有用——把它写下来。你不需要内容支柱,也不需要 2–3 个固定话题来写。你筛选并收集的想法,只需要对你重要即可。仅这一点就意味着:它们对应着一个特定的“细分人群”——你自己。不过,如果你愿意,你也可以创建一个

我不在乎你怎么组织它。它可以是一套整洁有序的文档,也可以是一条毫无结构、乱糟糟的长笔记。习惯比形式更重要。

你可以通过瞟一眼点赞、浏览或总体互动,来衡量“表现”:看看某个想法是否可能引起共鸣。如果这个想法反响平平,或明显比他们其他内容差,它大概率也不会为你带来好表现。

你可以通过观察自己:当你不把它记下来就像在浪费某种宝贵之物时,来衡量“兴奋”。

Step 2)按“想法密度”筛选与补给

你要怎么开始填满你的点子博物馆?

你需要 3–5 个“想法密度”很高的信息来源。

我说的“想法密度”,指的是信号很高的想法。

很难解释如何找到“高信号”的东西,因为这很主观。它取决于你的发展阶段(什么对你有用)、你的受众的发展阶段(什么对他们有用),以及你把前者翻译给后者的能力。

对别人而言,世界上最有价值的东西,可能就是最基础的一条建议;但对你来说,它也许只是常识。

随着时间推移,你会通过观察哪些想法能打动你的受众、哪些不能,来校准你自己的信噪比。

想法密度最高的信息来源:

  • 古老或冷门的书——我有 5 本书会一读再读,因为其中的想法太好了。永恒原则就住在这里,不受潮流污染。

  • 精选过的博客、账号或书——像 Farnam Street 这样的博客会从当代思想家中筛选最好的想法;像 Navalism 这样的账号会整理 Naval 最好的想法;像 The Maxwell Daily Reader 这样的书,会用一年时间每天给你一条 Maxwell 的最佳想法。这些替你做了大量“粗重活”,让你可以从中挑选最好的那一批。

  • 高质量社交账号——我有一份列表,大概 5 个账号,他们总能发出很棒的想法。如果我没有东西可写,我就会翻他们的主页,找一个我有观点的点子,然后写它。

找到这些来源,需要几个月的探索。但持续维护一个“高密度想法”的点子博物馆,会让你自然产出“高密度内容”。

你的点子博物馆,会变成你正在试图塑造的那种心智的外化呈现。

这才是终极目标。

拥有一个内容库,好到让人忍不住打开你的邮件、打开推送、把你的想法分享给朋友,并经常想起你的想法。

你会变成一个想法策展人:你策展的想法,是人们甚至想不到要去问 AI 的想法,也是人们不可能“自然碰到”的想法。

这就是你如何变得不那么依赖算法来获得成功。

Step 3)把 1 个想法写出 1000 种表达

成为一个好的写作者或演讲者,不只关乎想法本身,也关乎想法如何被表达出来。

想法承担了很多“重活”,但结构决定了它是否吸引人、是否独特、是否有冲击力。

我给你演示一下我的意思。

拿这个帖子结构:

我在幸福的人身上观察到一个模式:他们对保持头脑清晰近乎痴迷。

这里的想法是:幸福的人会保持头脑清晰。

结构分成两部分:以“观察”作为钩子,然后交付你观察到了什么。

看起来很简单,但结构的差异可以带来天壤之别。

现在,如果我用同一个想法,但换成“列表”结构:

幸福的人都是头脑清晰的人:– 他们会留时间休息– 他们聚焦在一个单一目标上– 他们无情地清除分心 换句话说,幸福的人对保持头脑清晰近乎痴迷。

同一个想法。不同的结构。不同的效果。

如果你愿意,你甚至可以用你遇到的每一种帖子结构来练习同一个想法的写法。

练习方法如下:

第一,把 3 个想法拆解成结构。

从你的点子博物馆里选 3 条打动你的帖子。然后尝试把每一部分拆开,写下它为什么有效。

如果你没有“内容心理学”的经验,也没关系。你会在练习中学会。

现在正是借助 AI 的最佳时机。对每一条帖子试试这个提示词:

对这条社交媒体帖子做一次全面分析:包括整体想法、句子结构与用词选择。分析人们为什么会互动、它为什么这么有效、其中使用了哪些心理策略,以及我如何用自己的想法一步步复刻这种风格。

然后把帖子粘贴在提示词下面。

在这件事上,我更推荐用 Claude,而不是 ChatGPT 或 Gemini。

你在旅途中遇到任何你想吸收进自己写作风格的想法,都可以继续这么做。视频也一样适用,不止是帖子。

第二,用不同结构重写 3 个想法。

回到你的点子博物馆,选一个你在第一步没有用过的想法。

然后试着用你刚刚拆解过的那 3 种帖子结构,重写这个想法。

这会让你拥有更大的表达“范围”。

这会让你不再盯着空白屏幕发呆。

这会让你把一个想法变成一整周的内容。

我们为什么要这么做?

因为到这里,你已经拥有了打造“脱颖而出内容”以及想出好点子的全部秘密。

真的,这些就是秘密。任何结果都只是练习的产物。

好,这篇已经很长了,我要加速了。

而且我有一整套指南讲

... 所以我不想重复。

在这个时间点,我们处在一个“系统经济”里。

人们并不想要一个“解决方案”。

他们想要“你的解决方案”。

市面上有成堆的写作产品,那么以我的 2 Hour Writer 产品为例,它有什么不同?甚至再看我正在构建的软件 Eden——在一些超级聪明、并且显然在 YouTube 评论区做出过成功产品的人看来,它“完全可以被 Google Drive 或 Dropbox 轻松替代”?

它们是我通过让自己先获得结果而创造出来的系统。

2HW 不教一堆学院派写作废话——那些东西并不能帮助你实现我们共同的愿景:过一种有创造力且有意义的生活。

我有几个问题:

  • 我很难拥有一个“无穷无尽”的内容点子来源。

  • 我不想把大量时间浪费在为不同平台分别创作内容上。

于是我开始实验我自己的系统。

我对这个系统的目标很清晰:每天用不到 2 小时,写完我需要写的所有内容。这样,受众增长这件事就被处理掉了,我可以专注于打造更好的产品并享受生活。

我开始测试“如何拥有更多内容点子”的解决方案。

我建了素材库、生成点子的步骤,以及当我还是想不出东西时可用的模板。

我把每周要写什么做了清晰规划:每天 3 条帖子,每周 1 条 thread,每周 1 期 newsletter。

在这个过程中,我意识到我可以把写作跨平台同步发布(这是公开的,你可以看到)。我也意识到:thread 可以变成轮播图,newsletter 可以变成 YouTube 视频。

如果这个系统运转不顺,我就下一周换新方法。

然后我意识到:我可以把 newsletter 复制粘贴到博客里,在博客里嵌入 YouTube 视频,在博客里推广我的产品,再把博客变成更多内容点子的来源。

接着,我可以把那篇博客链接放到我每天的内容下面。

这带来了更多 newsletter 订阅者、YouTube 订阅者,以及产品销量。

我意识到:如果我做的一切都以 newsletter 为中心,那么无论是增长受众还是推广产品,我只需要操心这一件事。

这就是你如何在一个“复制粘贴产品”泛滥的世界里脱颖而出。

是的,这需要时间与经验。

但最终结果非常值得。

这封信就写到这里。

感谢阅读。

—— Dan

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🧭 主题 MOC

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  • [[商业系统 MOC|商业系统]]:(MOC) 核心在于用「注意力/分发」支撑产品化与收入,把兴趣变成可交易的价值。

🎯 核心:多兴趣 → 通才与自主

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Society made you think that having multiple interests was a weakness.

社会让你以为:兴趣很多是一种弱点。

Go to school.

去上学。

Get a degree.

拿学位。

Get a job.

找工作。

Retire at some point.

某个时候退休。

But there is so much wrong with that sequence of events.

但这套顺序里,问题多得离谱。

We don’t live in the Industrial Age anymore. Specializing in one skill is almost certain death. I feel like we all know by this point how dangerous mechanical living and siloed learning is for your psyche and soul. And people can feel that we’re going through a second renaissance. Your curiosity and love for learning are your advantages in today’s world, but there is something missing.

我们早就不活在工业时代了。把自己押注在单一技能上,几乎等于自寻死路。我觉得到这个节点,我们都知道:机械式生活、筒仓式学习,对你的心智与灵魂有多危险。而且人们也能感觉到:我们正在经历第二次文艺复兴。你的好奇心与对学习的热爱,是当今世界的优势——但这里面少了一个关键环节。

For the longest time, I learned and learned and learned. I was stuck in tutorial hell. Some may call it shiny object syndrome to point out your lack of focus. I got my dopamine from feeling smart, but my life didn’t change all that much. Honestly, I felt like I was just falling behind. I tried so many different things in college. I had dreams of doing my own thing... earning an income from something creative... but after spending 5 years “learning,” I was met with the reality that I had to get the best job I could find just so I could survive.

很长一段时间里,我一直学、一直学、一直学。我被困在“教程地狱”里。有人会用“闪亮物体综合征”来指出你不够专注。我靠“感觉自己很聪明”来分泌多巴胺,但我的人生并没有发生多大变化。说实话,我觉得自己只是越来越落后。大学里我试了太多不同的东西。我曾梦想做自己的事……靠创造性的东西赚到收入……但在花了 5 年“学习”之后,我被现实迎面痛击:为了活下去,我只能去找一份我能找到的最好工作。

The missing piece was a vessel.

缺的那块拼图,是一个载体。

A vessel that would allow me to channel all of my interests into meaningful work that I could earn a decent income from.

一个能让我把所有兴趣汇入有意义的工作、并从中赚到体面收入的载体。

If you’ve ever felt guilty for not being able to pick one thing, if you’ve been told to niche down when your mind wants to expand, if you’ve wondered whether there’s a path you can take that doesn’t lead to the misery you see in everyone else’s eyes – this is the greatest time to be alive.

如果你曾因为“选不出一个方向”而内疚;如果你曾被人要求“收窄赛道”,而你的心智却想扩张;如果你曾怀疑是否存在一条路,不会把你带到你在别人眼里看见的那种痛苦——那么,现在是活着最好的时代。

Here are 7 of the most compelling ideas I could come up with. We’ll start by understanding why having multiple interests is a superpower in today's world, then I’ll give you practical steps to turn that into your life’s work. We have a lot to talk about, so I hope you’re here for the ride.

下面是我能想到的 7 个最有说服力的观点。我们会先理解:为什么在今天,兴趣广泛是一种超能力;然后我会给你一些可执行的步骤,把它变成你的人生事业。要聊的很多,希望你愿意跟我一起走完这趟。

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations... generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. — Adam Smith

那个一生只重复少数几个简单操作的人……通常会变得尽可能愚蠢、无知。——亚当·斯密

Funny you say that Mr. Smith, because you created those people, and we’re still dealing with the backlash.

斯密先生,你说得真“妙”,因为这种人就是你们造出来的,而我们至今仍在承受它的反噬。

Specialization took over during industrialization because, in a pin factory, for example, one worker doing every step could make 20 pins a day. Then workers, each doing one step, could make 48,000.

专业化在工业化时期占了上风:例如在一家别针工厂里,一个工人把每一步都做完,一天只能做 20 枚别针;但如果让很多工人各自只做其中一步,一天就能做出 48,000 枚。

So we built an entire world around this model.

于是我们围绕这种模型,建造了整个世界。

Humans became assembly lines working 9 to 5 because frankly, governments don’t serve the national interest, they serve their own interest. Corporations don’t serve the employees interest, they serve their own.

人类变成了朝九晚五的流水线。因为说白了,政府不服务“国家利益”,而服务自己的利益;公司也不服务“员工利益”,而服务自己的利益。

Schools were designed to serve that interest. Their sole purpose was to create factory workers who were punctual and obedient.

学校就是为这种利益设计的。它们唯一的目的,是制造准时、服从的工厂工人。

But this is no way to live.

但这不是人该过的生活。

If you want to have specialized knowledge so that you could never run an operation, especially your own operation, then be dependent on schools for your education and jobs for your wage. Be duped into believing the promise that specialization is what makes a human valuable when it is clear that the system does not need you, specifically, to perform that task.

如果你希望掌握那种“高度专门化”的知识,以至于你永远无法运营一个系统——尤其无法运营你自己的系统——那么你就会在教育上依赖学校、在收入上依赖工作。你会被骗去相信:专业化让人有价值;但现实已经清清楚楚地表明,系统并不需要你这个“特定的人”去做那项特定的任务。

In lies the distinction.

区别就在这里。

If pure specialization makes people stupid and dependent, what makes an individual smart and sovereign?

如果纯粹的专业化会让人变笨、变得依赖,那么,是什么让一个个体变得聪明且自主?

Three ingredients: Self-education, self-interest, self-sufficiency.

三个要素:自我教育、自我利益、自我自足。

Self-education is clear, because if you want to achieve a result different from that of traditional education, you must direct your own learning.

自我教育很清楚:如果你想获得与传统教育不同的结果,你就必须主导自己的学习。

Self-interest raises some flags. It sounds selfish and short-sighted, which many people view as bad without thinking through it, but it simply means “concern with one’s own interest,” because the only other option is to serve the interest of the organizations that compose society as it is, which we’ve discussed. In other words, follow your interest, because your interest can very well benefit others in a selfless way - depending on your level of cognitive and moral development. Oh, and by the way, indulging in short-lived pleasures (cheap dopamine) is usually not your interest, but the interest of corporations that benefit from your mindlessness.

“自我利益”听起来会让人警觉。它听上去自私、短视,很多人不加思考就把它当成坏事。但它的意思只是“关心自身利益”,因为唯一的替代方案,是去服务于构成当下社会的那些组织的利益——我们已经谈过了。换句话说,追随你的兴趣,因为你的兴趣完全可能以一种无私的方式让别人受益——这取决于你的认知与道德发展水平。哦对了,沉溺于短暂快感(廉价多巴胺)通常并不是你的利益,而是那些从你的麻木中获利的公司的利益。

The truly selfish person, in Ayn Rand’s view, is a self-respecting, self-supporting human being who neither sacrifices others to himself nor sacrifices himself to others. This rejects both the predator and the doormat.

在安·兰德看来,真正“自私”的人,是一个自尊、自立的人:他既不把他人牺牲给自己,也不把自己牺牲给他人。这同时否定了掠食者与擦脚垫。

Self-sufficiency is the refusal to outsource your judgment, learning, and agency. If self-education is the engine and self-interest is the compass, self-sufficiency is the foundation that prevents your life direction from being hijacked by another force. They collaborate, but are not fully dependent.

自我自足,是拒绝把你的判断、学习与能动性外包出去。如果说自我教育是引擎,自我利益是指南针,那么自我自足就是地基:它能防止你的人生方向被另一股力量劫持。三者相互协作,但并不完全相互依赖。

The generalist emerges naturally from this triad.

通才,会自然从这个三角结构里长出来。

Self-interest motivates self-education.

自我利益驱动自我教育。

You learn because it genuinely serves your flourishing, not because someone assigned it.

你学习,是因为它真实地服务于你的兴盛,而不是因为有人给你布置了任务。

Self-education enables self-sufficiency.

自我教育促成自我自足。

You can only be sovereign over domains you understand.

你只能在你理解的领域里拥有主权。

Self-sufficiency clarifies self-interest.

自我自足澄清自我利益。

When you’re not dependent on others’ interpretations, you can actually perceive what serves you. Most people pursue multiple interests as an escape from their work. When your interests become your work, or your life’s work, most of them start to filter out.

当你不再依赖他人的解读,你才能真正看见什么在服务于你。大多数人追逐多个兴趣,是为了逃离自己的工作;当你的兴趣变成你的工作、甚至你的人生事业时,其中大多数就会被自然筛掉。

When we look at every CEO, founder, or creative that we actually admire, they are generalists.

当我们看那些我们真正敬佩的 CEO、创始人或创作者时,他们都是通才。

They understand enough about marketing to direct it, enough about product to build it, and enough about people to lead them. But they also need to direct the ship. They need to learn and adapt when circumstances change.

他们懂足够多的营销,能指挥它;懂足够多的产品,能把它造出来;也懂足够多的人性,能带领他人。但他们还必须掌舵:当环境变化时,他们需要学习与适应。

More importantly, they understand that ideas across domains complement each other and create a unique way of viewing the world, which allows them to catch novel ideas from the aether and translate them into market value.

更重要的是,他们明白:跨领域的观念彼此互补,会形成一种独特的看世界方式——让他们能从以太里捕捉到新颖想法,并把它翻译成市场价值。

When we look at where the world is today, and if you understand the opportunities available to singular individuals, not just leaders, you will find that the options you have as a natural polymath are extensive. It should spark an immense amount of excitement in you.

当我们看清当今世界的样子,并且你理解到:机会不只属于“领导者”,也属于单个个体——你会发现,作为一个天生的博学者,你拥有的选项非常广阔。它应该会让你兴奋得发抖。

Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses—especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. — Leonardo da Vinci

研究艺术的科学,研究科学的艺术。发展你的感官——尤其要学会如何看见。要意识到:万物彼此相连。——莱昂纳多·达·芬奇

The ultimate moat, or the final competitive edge worth paying for, in my opinion, is an opinion.

在我看来,最终的护城河——或者说,最后一个值得付费的竞争优势——是一个“观点”。

A perspective that only you can see, because the uniqueness of your life experience created it. That may just be the last thing anyone else can replicate.

一种只有你能看见的视角,因为它由你独一无二的生命经验塑造而成。这可能正是别人最难复制的东西。

And since that’s always been the case, why not prioritize that now? Especially when automation is at our doorstep?

既然这一直都成立,那为什么不从现在开始就把它当成优先级?尤其是在自动化已经近在眼前的时候。

But how do you prioritize it? How do you develop it?

但你要如何把它当成优先级?又如何发展它?

By pursuing multiple interests and building something with them.

靠追逐多个兴趣,并用它们去建造某个东西。

You see, every interest you’ve ever pursued leaves behind a residue. Every interest increases the number of connections that can be made. Every interest expands and increases the complexity of how you model and interpret reality. The more complex your model of reality, the more problems you can solve, opportunities you can see, and value you can create. Specialism completely halts this process, and your shiny object syndrome has been trying to tell you this whole time.

你看,你追过的每一个兴趣,都会留下沉淀;每一个兴趣都会增加你能建立的连接数量;每一个兴趣都会扩展并加深你建模与解释现实的复杂度。你的现实模型越复杂,你就能解决越多问题,看见越多机会,创造越多价值。专业化会彻底中止这一过程,而你的“闪亮物体综合征”一直在试图告诉你这一点。

From birth until now, you are cultivating a way of seeing things that others can’t. A way of seeing things that AI can only think if you tell it what to think.

从出生到现在,你一直在培养一种别人看不见的“看法”。一种 AI 只有在你告诉它该想什么时,才会想到的看法。

A person who studied psychology and design sees user behavior differently from the pure designer. A person who learned sales and philosophy closes deals differently than the pure salesman. A person who understands fitness and business builds health companies that MBAs can’t comprehend.

学过心理学与设计的人,会用不同于纯设计师的方式看用户行为;学过销售与哲学的人,会用不同于纯销售的方式成交;懂健身也懂商业的人,能打造 MBA 都难以理解的健康公司。

Your edge lies more in intersection than it does in expertise.

你的优势更多来自“交叉”,而不是“专精”。

This is the exact pattern we see in the Renaissance that is coming back with a much stronger force now.

这正是我们在当下回归、且力量更强的文艺复兴里看到的模式。

Consider what made it possible...

想一想是什么让它成为可能……

Before the printing press, knowledge was scarce.

在印刷机出现之前,知识是稀缺的。

Books were copied by hand. A single text could take a scribe months to reproduce. Libraries were rare. Literacy was rarer. If you wanted to learn something outside your trade, you either had access to a monastery or you didn’t learn it.

书要手工抄写。一篇文本可能需要抄写员花几个月才能誊写完。图书馆很少见。识字的人更少。如果你想学你行当之外的东西,你要么能接触到修道院,要么就学不到。

Then Gutenberg changed everything.

然后,古腾堡改变了一切。

Within 50 years, 20 million books flooded Europe. Ideas that once took generations to spread now moved in months. Literacy exploded. The cost of knowledge collapsed.

在 50 年里,2,000 万本书涌入欧洲。过去需要几代人才能传播开的思想,现在几个月就能传遍。识字率爆炸式增长。知识的成本崩塌。

For the first time in history, a person could realistically pursue multiple domains of mastery in a single lifetime.

历史上第一次,一个人在一生中现实地追求多个领域的精通,变得可能。

The Renaissance was the result.

于是,文艺复兴发生了。

Da Vinci didn’t pick one thing. He painted, sculpted, engineered, studied anatomy, designed war machines, and mapped the human body. Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect, and poet.

达·芬奇没有“只选一件事”。他画画、雕塑、工程、解剖学、设计战争机器、绘制人体结构。米开朗基罗既是画家,也是雕塑家、建筑师与诗人。

Unique minds are finally free to operate the way they are supposed to.

独特的头脑终于能够以它们本应有的方式运作。

They were supposed to cross disciplines, synthesize connections, and follow curiosity wherever it led, but most of us never realized that.

它们本该跨越学科、综合连接,并把好奇心追到它引向的任何地方——但我们大多数人从未意识到这一点。

The printing press was the catalyst for a new type of person to emerge. A person who could learn anything, combine everything, and create what no specialist ever could.

印刷机,是一种新型人物出现的催化剂:一种能学任何东西、组合一切东西、并创造出任何专门化人才都造不出的东西的人。

If you enjoy these letters, I send them out 1-2x a week.

如果你喜欢这些信,我每周会发 1–2 次。

if you want to be notified when they go out (because the algorithm probably won't show you them).

如果你希望在它们发出时收到提醒(因为算法大概率不会把它们推给你)。

There are a few things we know so far:

目前我们已经知道几件事:

  • You have multiple interests but feel like you can’t keep learning forever
  • 你兴趣很多,但你感觉自己不可能永远学下去
  • You have a love for interest-based self-education but have to carve out time outside of your career to do it
  • 你热爱以兴趣为导向的自我教育,但你不得不在本职工作之外挤时间来做
  • You understand the need to become self-sufficient but you feel like you don’t have value worth paying for, yet
  • 你明白自我自足的必要性,但你还觉得自己没有“值得别人付费”的价值
  • You need to be able to adapt fast because we don’t know what the future of work looks like
  • 你需要快速适应,因为我们不知道未来的工作会长成什么样

The question then is, how do we combine all of these things into one way of life?

那么问题是:如何把这一切融合成一种生活方式?

How do we combine learning and earning into something you can do for work?

如何把“学习”和“赚钱”融合成你可以用来工作的同一件事?

I’ll try to make this as logical as I can.

我会尽量把它讲得足够逻辑清晰。

To make money from your interests, you need other people to become interested in them too. That part is trivial. If you became interested in something, other people can too, you simply must learn to persuade.

要从你的兴趣里赚钱,你需要让别人也对它们产生兴趣。这一点很简单:你能对某件事产生兴趣,别人也可以;你只是必须学会说服。

Further, you need a way for them to pay you. In this context, that usually means you need to sell a product, because you probably aren’t going to find a job that allows you to express your interests, and investing in stocks or real estate (to any effective degree) requires a good amount of capital.

进一步说,你还需要一种让别人付钱给你的方式。在这里通常意味着:你需要卖一个产品,因为你大概率找不到一份允许你表达兴趣的工作;而投资股票或房地产(到能有效产生结果的程度)需要不少资本。

In other words, you need attention.

换句话说,你需要注意力。

Attention is one of the last moats.

注意力是最后的护城河之一。

Because when anyone can write anything or build any software, which ones are going to win? The ones that people know about. You can have the greatest product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, the person who can capture and hold attention will run laps around you.

因为当任何人都能写任何东西、或构建任何软件时,谁会赢?赢的是那些被人知道的。你可以拥有世界上最好的产品,但如果没人知道它,那个能捕获并 удерж住注意力的人,会把你甩出几圈。

As an aside, and if you’ve been keeping up with the tech space, no, I don’t think everyone will just “build their own software.” Most people don’t even spend 20 minutes cooking their own food. They would rather pay a few bucks for Uber Eats. And people have their own things they want to spend their time on.

顺便一提,如果你一直关注科技圈:不,我并不认为每个人都会去“自己写软件”。大多数人做饭连 20 分钟都不愿意花,他们宁愿花几块钱点 Uber Eats。而且每个人都有自己想花时间做的事。

Back to the point:

回到正题:

You need to become a creator.

你需要成为一个创造者。

Now, before you cringe and leave, I don’t exactly mean becoming a content creator (well… it’s complicated).

在你翻白眼准备退出之前,我说的并不完全是“成为内容创作者”(嗯……这很复杂)。

I mean that the solution to stop creating for someone else because you need them to give you a paycheck is to create for yourself.

我的意思是:如果你不想继续为别人创造、因为你需要他们给你发工资,那么解决方案就是为你自己创造。

Humans, by nature, are creators who were convinced that being a machine would lead to the American Dream. We are tool builders at our core. We thrive in any niche because we create solutions to problems. If a lion were put in Alaska, it would not build shelter and clothing. It would die. A lion belongs in its own niche.

人类天生是创造者,只是后来被说服:当一台机器就能实现美国梦。我们骨子里是造工具的人。我们能在任何生态位里繁荣,因为我们会创造解决方案来解决问题。如果把一头狮子丢到阿拉斯加,它不会搭建庇护所、也不会做衣服;它会死。狮子属于它自己的生态位。

The thing is, every business is a media business now. And remember, you need attention. Where is the attention? Mostly on social media until the next attention preference platform comes around - you’ll need to adapt at that point. So yes, if you have multiple interests, it would be wise to become a “content creator,” but it may be easier to think of social media as a mechanism to get your interests in front of other people. It is one piece of the puzzle to do independent work.

关键是:现在每一家企业都是媒体企业。别忘了,你需要注意力。注意力在哪里?主要在社交媒体上——直到下一个承载注意力偏好的平台出现;到那时你就需要适应。所以是的,如果你兴趣很多,成为“内容创作者”是明智的;但更容易的理解方式是:把社交媒体当作一种机制,用来把你的兴趣呈现在别人眼前。它是你做独立工作拼图中的一块。

Plus, that covers all of our bases.

而且,这样也把所有需求都覆盖了。

You love learning? Great, reframe it as “research” and now that’s literally your main job. Most of the things I write about simply come from me learning about my interests and treating social media like I’m “taking notes in public.”

你热爱学习?太好了,把它重新框定为“研究”,现在它就字面意义上成了你的主业。我写的大多数东西,都是来自于我学习自己的兴趣,然后把社交媒体当作我在“公开做笔记”。

(You’re already spending time learning, now just spend that time learning in public and boom you have the foundation of a business).

(你本来就会花时间学习,现在只要把这段时间用来公开学习——砰,你就有了一个生意的地基。)

You need to become self-sufficient? Well, you’d need a business to do that, and every business needs to attract customers, and you probably don’t give two f*cks about paid ads, SEO, or any other form of marketing. This is what trips many people up because they are only used to doing one specialized task within a business as an employee.

你需要自我自足?那你就需要一门生意;而每门生意都需要吸引客户;而你大概对付费广告、SEO,或者任何其他营销方式都毫无兴趣。这正是很多人会卡住的地方,因为他们作为员工时习惯了:在一家公司里只做一项专门化任务。

You need to be able to adapt? Amazing, you can build and launch new products to your audience as fast as you can build them. I have a solid audience, and if my next product were to fail, I have people who would be willing to invest, be a part of the team, or support the next product. You can build your little SaaS company, but if you don’t have distribution, you are putting in marathons of extra leg work into getting capital, finding talent, and getting things off the ground.

你需要适应能力?太棒了:你可以以你构建产品的速度,把新产品构建出来并发布给你的受众。我有一个扎实的受众,如果我的下一个产品失败了,我也有人愿意投资、加入团队或支持下一个产品。你可以去建你的小 SaaS 公司,但如果你没有分发能力,你就得付出额外的“马拉松式”努力:去找资金、找人才、把事情真正推起来。

No other job or business model allows you to do just that with so much freedom.

没有任何其他工作或商业模式,能让你以这么大的自由度做到这一切。

But how do you actually start building it?

但你到底该如何开始把它建起来?

How do you tie all of this together?

如何把这一切串成一个整体?

It’s unfortunate that “entrepreneurship” and “business” have become dirty words that make people think they aren’t qualified to take that path, so much so that when an opportunity comes up, they don’t even notice it.

很遗憾,“创业”和“生意”已经成了脏词,让人觉得自己不配走那条路——甚至到了机会出现时,他们都根本注意不到的程度。

If you’ve ever helped someone with your interests, you’re qualified to start a business.

只要你曾用你的兴趣帮过别人,你就有资格开始一门生意。

They no longer require upfront capital. They are not reserved for unethical elites. They are not only for people who want to make a lot of money. And they are not only for talented or special people.

它们不再需要前期资本。它们不只属于不道德的精英。它们不只是给那些想赚大钱的人。它们也不只是给有天赋或特别的人。

The reality is that entrepreneurship is in our nature. It is modern survival. We are wired to create and distribute value to a tribe of like-minded people. We are wired to hunt, explore the unknown, seek novelty, and never stagnate. Psychologically, this is the most enjoyable way of life, even if there are low periods, because those are what allow the (non-artificial) highs to exist.

现实是:创业写在我们的天性里。它是现代生存。我们被“编程”去为一群志同道合的人创造并分发价值;我们被“编程”去狩猎、探索未知、追求新奇、永不停滞。从心理层面看,这是最令人享受的生活方式——哪怕会有低谷——因为正是低谷,让那些(非人为制造的)高点得以存在。

Further, the barrier of entry has collapsed.

此外,入场门槛已经崩塌。

All you really need is a laptop and internet connection.

你真正需要的,只是一台电脑和一条网线。

Distribution is now free thanks to social media (well, not free, but skill-based, which can be expensive in time). Anyone can post an idea that reaches millions, and if they have a product, those millions of eyes can result in millions of dollars if you know what you’re doing, and that’s a big if. Most people just love becoming really good at an interest or skill that doesn’t directly impact their success, potentially because they’re afraid of it.

社交媒体让分发几乎变成免费(好吧,不是免费,而是基于技能——时间成本可能很贵)。任何人都可以发布一个触达数百万人的想法;如果他有产品,那么这几百万双眼睛有可能转化为数百万美元——前提是你知道自己在做什么,而这是一大前提。大多数人只是喜欢把某个兴趣或技能练得很强,但它并不会直接影响他们的成功——可能是因为他们害怕成功这件事。

Tools and technology now handle what used to require teams of people. You have access to AI and a plethora of useful software.

工具与技术如今能处理过去需要一整个团队才能处理的事情。你可以使用 AI 以及大量有用的软件。

Now, there are 2 paths you can take to start.

现在,你有两条起步路径。

Path 1) Skill-Based

路径 1)技能导向

This is what dominated the internet for the longest time. You “learn a marketable skill.” You teach that skill through content. Then you sell a product or service related to that skill.

这是互联网长期以来的主流。你“学一门有市场的技能”。你用内容去教这门技能。然后你卖一个与这门技能相关的产品或服务。

The limitation here is the limitation of being a specialist. It is one-dimensional. You put yourself in a box. You “niche down” because you were told it is more profitable, and since you’re chasing profit over interest, you tend to build yourself into a second 9-5 where you do work you don’t care about for people you don’t care about.

它的限制,就是“专才”的限制:一维。你把自己装进一个盒子里。你“收窄赛道”,因为别人告诉你这样更赚钱;而当你追逐利润而不是兴趣时,你往往会把自己建成第二份朝九晚五:为你不在乎的人,做你不在乎的事。

Path 2) Development-Based

路径 2)发展导向

The creators that win right now are those without a niche they can be pinned down to. Typically, they are focused on one of the 4 eternal markets: health, wealth, relationships, happiness. Or even all of them. Technically, everyone’s niche is self-actualization, they are just all taking infinitely unique paths to get there.

现在赢的创作者,是那些没有一个能被钉死的细分领域的人。通常,他们聚焦在四个永恒市场中的一个:健康、财富、关系、幸福——甚至全都做。从技术意义上说,每个人的“细分领域”都是自我实现,只是每个人通往那里的路径都无限独特。

  • They pursue your own goals (brand).
  • 他们追求自己的目标(品牌)。
  • They teach what you learn (content).
  • 他们教授自己学到的东西(内容)。
  • They help others achieve the goal faster (product).
  • 他们帮助别人更快达成目标(产品)。

For those with multiple interests, I obviously recommend this path, because it goes a bit deeper.

对于兴趣很多的人,我显然更推荐这条路,因为它更深一层。

First, when you take this path, you are also taking the first path. Because building your brand, content, and product requires you to become good at all of the relevant marketable skills, so even if you fail, you have something worth paying for. You are building your business, and you can help others with a specific part of theirs if you are good at it.

第一,当你走这条路时,你其实也走了第一条路。因为构建你的品牌、内容与产品,会迫使你把所有相关的市场技能都练到够好——所以即使你失败了,你也仍然拥有“值得别人付费”的东西。你是在建自己的生意;如果你在其中某个环节足够擅长,你也能去帮助别人经营他们生意的某一部分。

Second, it flips the traditional model on its head.

第二,它把传统模型彻底翻转。

You don’t create a customer avatar so that you can niche down and only focus on that. You turn yourself into the customer avatar.

你不再为了“收窄赛道”而创建一个客户画像,然后只盯着它。你把自己变成客户画像。

That makes things much more palatable.

这会让事情顺眼得多。

You pursue your goals in life and develop yourself → you have already validated the usefulness of what you will offer → you help the past version of yourself reach that same goal.

你在生活里追求目标并发展自己 → 你已经验证了你将提供之物的有效性 → 你去帮助“过去的自己”更快达成同一个目标。

Don’t be a YouTube creator.

别当一个 YouTube 创作者。

Don’t be a personal brand.

别当一个“个人品牌”。

Don’t be an influencer.

别当一个网红。

Be you. But in a place where your work can be discovered, followed, and supported. Right now and for the foreseeable future, that’s on the internet.

做你自己——但要把自己放在一个你的作品能被发现、被关注、被支持的地方。现在以及可预见的未来,这个地方就是互联网。

Jordan Peterson (or others like him) isn’t a “content creator,” even though that’s how it seems on the surface.

乔丹·彼得森(或类似的人)并不是一个“内容创作者”,即便表面看起来像。

He goes on tours, writes books, leverages social media as a base, and uses all of the tools at his disposal to spread his life’s work. He isn’t worried about the latest content idea trend. His mind outperforms any of those myopic growth strategies. The quality of his ideas is what sets him apart and changes people’s lives (regardless of your opinion on Peterson).

他巡回演讲、写书、把社交媒体当作底盘,并动用一切可用工具去传播他的人生事业。他不担心最新的内容选题潮流。他的头脑碾压那些短视的增长策略。他的思想质量才是他与众不同之处,也正是它改变了人们的人生(不论你对彼得森的看法如何)。

With that, I want to provide a different perspective on brand, content, and product. That way you can use this as a vessel for your life’s work.

基于此,我想给你一个关于品牌、内容与产品的不同视角,让你能把它当作你人生事业的载体。

Stop thinking of your brand as a profile picture and social media bio.

别再把“品牌”理解为头像和社交媒体简介。

Brand is an environment where people come to transform.

品牌,是一个让人来发生转变的环境。

Brand is the little world you are inviting others into.

品牌,是你邀请别人进入的小世界。

Brand isn’t illustrated when a reader first visits your profile.

品牌并不是读者第一次点进你主页时就立刻“呈现”的东西。

Brand is the accumulation of ideas in your reader’s mind after 3-6 months of following you.

品牌,是读者关注你 3–6 个月后,留在他脑海里那一整套观念的累积。

You illustrate your worldview, story, and philosophy for life across every single touchpoint. Your banner, profile picture, bio, link in bio, landing page design, pinned content, posts, threads, newsletters, videos, and the rest.

你要在每一个触点上,呈现你的世界观、故事与人生哲学:你的横幅图、头像、简介、简介里的链接、落地页设计、置顶内容、帖子、长推、newsletter、视频,以及其他所有。

In other words, your brand is this:

换句话说,你的品牌是这个:

Your brand is your story.

你的品牌,是你的故事。

It would help to spend a day writing out where you came from, the “low” points of your life, the experiences you’ve had and skills you’ve acquired, and how those things have helped you the most.

如果你愿意,花一天把这些写出来会很有帮助:你从哪里来、你人生的“低谷”、你经历过什么、你获得了哪些技能,以及这些东西如何对你帮助最大。

When you’re thinking of ideas, content, or products, you should filter them through your story. This doesn’t mean you have to talk about yourself all the time. It means you have to align what you’re saying so that your brand is cohesive.

当你在想点子、内容或产品时,你应该用你的故事来过滤它们。这并不意味着你必须一直谈自己;而是意味着,你要对齐你所说的一切,让你的品牌保持一致。

The difficult part is realizing that your story is worth telling, even if you think it’s boring or haven’t reflected on your growth.

最难的是:意识到你的故事值得被讲出来——哪怕你觉得它很无聊,或你从未认真回望自己的成长。

The point:

重点是:

Your bio and profile picture do not matter. There are literal people with one word in their bio and a singular color for their profile picture.

你的简介和头像并不重要。真的有人简介里只有一个词、头像就是一种纯色。

My recommendation:

我的建议:

  • Make a list of 5-10 people you respect online
  • 列出 5–10 个你在网上尊敬的人
  • Look at their profile picture, bio, and content
  • 看看他们的头像、简介与内容
  • Take mental note of patterns between them
  • 在心里记下他们之间的共同模式
  • Start formulating what you should do for your own brand, with your own little spin
  • 开始构思:你自己的品牌应该怎么做,并加上一点属于你的独特变化

In all honesty, I wouldn’t overcomplicate this or even worry about it. Your brand will take shape as you start writing content. We could even say that brand is content, so we need to get that right.

说实话,我不会把这事想得太复杂,也不会太担心。你的品牌会随着你开始写内容而逐渐成形。甚至可以说,品牌就是内容,所以我们需要把内容做好。

This article on the

这篇关于

world may help.

世界的文章也许会有帮助。

The internet is a fire hose of information.

互联网是一根信息消防水带。

AI is only adding more noise.

AI 只会制造更多噪音。

That means trust and signal are more important than ever.

这意味着:信任与信号比以往任何时候都更重要。

In my opinion, the guiding light for your content should be to curate the best possible ideas in one place. Your brand is a collection of all the ideas you care about, in your own words, under one account on the internet.

在我看来,你内容的指路明灯,应该是把尽可能好的想法汇聚到一个地方。你的品牌,就是你在互联网上的一个账号之下,用你自己的表达,收纳你在乎的一切想法。

If you have any plans to do podcasts or public speaking, notice how the best speakers always have 5-10 of their best arguments or ideas top of mind. They repeat these over and over and that’s how they build influence. If you don’t have a set of those 5-10 ideas, then you won’t be as impactful as you could be. Writing a truckload of content is how you discover those ideas.

如果你打算做播客或公开演讲,注意最好的讲者总能随时调动他们最强的 5–10 个论点或想法。他们反复讲这些东西,这就是他们建立影响力的方式。如果你没有那 5–10 个核心想法的“集合”,你的影响力就达不到本可以达到的程度。写海量内容,正是你发现这些想法的方式。

Once the “idea density” of your content increases with time and effort, that’s what creates a brand worth following and paying for.

当你的内容“想法密度”随着时间与努力提高时,它才会创造出一个值得被关注、也值得被付费的品牌。

The goal of curating ideas to include under your brand should fall at the intersection of:

为了把想法纳入你的品牌,你的筛选目标应该落在这两者的交集:

  • Performance – the ideas have the potential to “do well.” This is the measure of how much other people will care.
  • 表现(Performance)——这些想法有潜力“表现得很好”。这衡量的是别人会在乎多少。
  • Excitement – the ideas give you a sense of excitement to write about them. This is the measure of how much you care.
  • 兴奋(Excitement)——这些想法让你有兴奋感,想写它。这衡量的是你自己在乎多少。

Art and business.

艺术与商业。

Metrics and performance shouldn’t determine everything, but they do mean something.

数据与表现不该决定一切,但它们确实意味着一些东西。

Step 1) Build an idea museum

Step 1)建立一个“点子博物馆”

The secret of most creatives you love is that they keep a ruthless curation of notes, ideas, and sources of inspiration.

你喜欢的大多数创作者的秘密是:他们会无情地整理、筛选自己的笔记、想法与灵感来源。

In other words, they have a “swipe file,” as marketers call it.

换句话说,他们有一份营销人所说的“swipe file”(素材库/抄袭库)。

You can use

你可以用

(if you have access), Apple Notes, Notion, or whatever else you want, but I want to make this very clear:

(如果你能用的话)、Apple Notes、Notion,或任何你想用的东西,但我想把话说得非常清楚:

You need somewhere to jot down ideas as soon as they come to mind.

你需要一个地方,让你在点子刚冒出来时就能立刻记下来。

This is a critical habit.

这是一种关键习惯。

Whenever you find an idea that is useful, either now or in the near future, write it down. You don’t need content pillars or 2-3 topics to talk about. The ideas you curate should simply be important to you. That alone means they are relevant to a specific niche of a person: you. However, you can create a

每当你发现一个有用的点子——不论是现在有用还是不久的将来有用——把它写下来。你不需要内容支柱,也不需要 2–3 个固定话题来写。你筛选并收集的想法,只需要对你重要即可。仅这一点就意味着:它们对应着一个特定的“细分人群”——你自己。不过,如果你愿意,你也可以创建一个

if you’d like.

I don’t care how you structure this. It can be a neat and organized set of documents, or it can be a messy running note without structure. The habit matters more than the format.

我不在乎你怎么组织它。它可以是一套整洁有序的文档,也可以是一条毫无结构、乱糟糟的长笔记。习惯比形式更重要。

You gauge performance by glancing at the likes, views, or general engagement of a post to see if it has the potential to resonate. If the idea falls flat or does worse than their other content, it probably won’t do well for you.

你可以通过瞟一眼点赞、浏览或总体互动,来衡量“表现”:看看某个想法是否可能引起共鸣。如果这个想法反响平平,或明显比他们其他内容差,它大概率也不会为你带来好表现。

You gauge excitement by noticing when you feel as if you are wasting something valuable if you don’t write it down.

你可以通过观察自己:当你不把它记下来就像在浪费某种宝贵之物时,来衡量“兴奋”。

Step 2) Curate based on idea density

Step 2)按“想法密度”筛选与补给

How do you start filling your idea museum?

你要怎么开始填满你的点子博物馆?

You need 3-5 sources of information that have high idea density.

你需要 3–5 个“想法密度”很高的信息来源。

When I say “idea density,” I mean an idea that is high signal.

我说的“想法密度”,指的是信号很高的想法。

It’s difficult to explain how to find something that is high signal, because that is subjective. It’s dependent on your level of development (what’s useful for you), your audience’s level of development (what’s useful for them), and your translation from one to another.

很难解释如何找到“高信号”的东西,因为这很主观。它取决于你的发展阶段(什么对你有用)、你的受众的发展阶段(什么对他们有用),以及你把前者翻译给后者的能力。

The most basic piece of advice could be the most valuable thing in the world for someone else, but it may seem like common knowledge to you.

对别人而言,世界上最有价值的东西,可能就是最基础的一条建议;但对你来说,它也许只是常识。

With time, you will tune your own signal-to-noise ratio by seeing what ideas resonate with your audience and which don’t.

随着时间推移,你会通过观察哪些想法能打动你的受众、哪些不能,来校准你自己的信噪比。

The most idea-dense sources of information:

想法密度最高的信息来源:

  • Old or little-known books – I have 5 books that I reread over and over again because the ideas are so good. These are where the timeless principles live, untouched by trends.
  • 古老或冷门的书——我有 5 本书会一读再读,因为其中的想法太好了。永恒原则就住在这里,不受潮流污染。
  • Curated blogs, accounts, or books – Blogs like Farnam Street curate the best ideas from modern intellectuals. Accounts like Navalism curate Naval’s best ideas. Books like The Maxwell Daily Reader have one of Maxwell’s best ideas one day at a time for a year. These do a lot of the heavy lifting for you, allowing you to pick and choose the best of the best.
  • 精选过的博客、账号或书——像 Farnam Street 这样的博客会从当代思想家中筛选最好的想法;像 Navalism 这样的账号会整理 Naval 最好的想法;像 The Maxwell Daily Reader 这样的书,会用一年时间每天给你一条 Maxwell 的最佳想法。这些替你做了大量“粗重活”,让你可以从中挑选最好的那一批。
  • Heavy-hitting social accounts – I have a list of maybe 5 social accounts that always post great ideas. If I don’t have something to write about, I’ll scroll through their page and find something I have an opinion on and write about that.
  • 高质量社交账号——我有一份列表,大概 5 个账号,他们总能发出很棒的想法。如果我没有东西可写,我就会翻他们的主页,找一个我有观点的点子,然后写它。

Finding these sources takes a few months of discovery. But the result of maintaining an idea museum of dense ideas leads to you creating idea-dense content.

找到这些来源,需要几个月的探索。但持续维护一个“高密度想法”的点子博物馆,会让你自然产出“高密度内容”。

Your idea museum becomes a representation of the mind you are attempting to create.

你的点子博物馆,会变成你正在试图塑造的那种心智的外化呈现。

That’s the ultimate goal.

这才是终极目标。

To have a library of content so good that people can’t help but open your emails, turn on post notifications, share your ideas with friends, and think about your ideas often.

拥有一个内容库,好到让人忍不住打开你的邮件、打开推送、把你的想法分享给朋友,并经常想起你的想法。

You become a curator of ideas that people wouldn’t even think to ask AI for, and that people would never come across organically.

你会变成一个想法策展人:你策展的想法,是人们甚至想不到要去问 AI 的想法,也是人们不可能“自然碰到”的想法。

That’s how you become less dependent on the algorithm for your success.

这就是你如何变得不那么依赖算法来获得成功。

Step 3) Write 1 idea 1000 different ways

Step 3)把 1 个想法写出 1000 种表达

Becoming a good writer or speaker isn’t only about the idea, but how the idea is articulated.

成为一个好的写作者或演讲者,不只关乎想法本身,也关乎想法如何被表达出来。

The idea does a lot of the heavy lifting, but the structure is what makes it engaging, unique, and impactful.

想法承担了很多“重活”,但结构决定了它是否吸引人、是否独特、是否有冲击力。

Let me show you what I mean.

我给你演示一下我的意思。

Take this post structure:

拿这个帖子结构:

One pattern I’ve noticed in happy people: They’re obsessive about maintaining their mental clarity.

我在幸福的人身上观察到一个模式:他们对保持头脑清晰近乎痴迷。

The idea here is that happy people maintain their mental clarity.

这里的想法是:幸福的人会保持头脑清晰。

The structure is formatted in 2 parts: a hook in the form of an observation, and the delivery of what the observation is.

结构分成两部分:以“观察”作为钩子,然后交付你观察到了什么。

It seems simple, but the difference in the structure of an idea can make all the difference.

看起来很简单,但结构的差异可以带来天壤之别。

Now, if I take the same idea but use a “list” structure:

现在,如果我用同一个想法,但换成“列表”结构:

Happy people are clear-minded people:– They take time for rest– They focus on one singular goal– They ruthlessly eliminate distractions In other words, happy people are obsessive about maintaining their mental clarity.

幸福的人都是头脑清晰的人:– 他们会留时间休息– 他们聚焦在一个单一目标上– 他们无情地清除分心 换句话说,幸福的人对保持头脑清晰近乎痴迷。

Same idea. Different structure. Different impact.

同一个想法。不同的结构。不同的效果。

If you wanted to, you could practice writing the same idea with every single post structure you come across.

如果你愿意,你甚至可以用你遇到的每一种帖子结构来练习同一个想法的写法。

Here’s how to practice this:

练习方法如下:

First, break down 3 ideas into their structure.

第一,把 3 个想法拆解成结构。

Choose 3 posts from your idea museum that resonated with you. Then, try to break down each part of the idea and write why it works.

从你的点子博物馆里选 3 条打动你的帖子。然后尝试把每一部分拆开,写下它为什么有效。

If you don’t have experience with content psychology, that’s okay. You learn it as you practice.

如果你没有“内容心理学”的经验,也没关系。你会在练习中学会。

This is the perfect time to employ AI for help. Try this prompt for each post:

现在正是借助 AI 的最佳时机。对每一条帖子试试这个提示词:

Do a comprehensive analysis on this social post. The overall idea, how the sentences are structured, and choice of words. Analyze why people engage with it, why it works so well, what psychological tactics are being used, and how I can replicate this style step-by-step with my own ideas.

对这条社交媒体帖子做一次全面分析:包括整体想法、句子结构与用词选择。分析人们为什么会互动、它为什么这么有效、其中使用了哪些心理策略,以及我如何用自己的想法一步步复刻这种风格。

Then paste the post below the prompt.

然后把帖子粘贴在提示词下面。

I’d recommend Claude as the model to use for this over ChatGPT or Gemini.

在这件事上,我更推荐用 Claude,而不是 ChatGPT 或 Gemini。

Continue doing this for any idea you find along your journey that you want to incorporate as part of your writing style. You can use this for videos as well, not just posts.

你在旅途中遇到任何你想吸收进自己写作风格的想法,都可以继续这么做。视频也一样适用,不止是帖子。

Second, rewrite 3 ideas with different structures.

第二,用不同结构重写 3 个想法。

Go back to your idea museum and choose one idea you didn’t use in step one.

回到你的点子博物馆,选一个你在第一步没有用过的想法。

Then, try rewriting that idea with the 3 post structures you just broke down.

然后试着用你刚刚拆解过的那 3 种帖子结构,重写这个想法。

This is how you develop range.

这会让你拥有更大的表达“范围”。

This is how you stop staring at blank screens.

这会让你不再盯着空白屏幕发呆。

This is how you turn one idea into a week’s worth of content.

这会让你把一个想法变成一整周的内容。

Why are we doing this?

我们为什么要这么做?

Well, you now have all of the secrets to creating content that stands out and coming up with good ideas.

因为到这里,你已经拥有了打造“脱颖而出内容”以及想出好点子的全部秘密。

Seriously, those are the secrets. Any results that come from them are a matter of practice.

真的,这些就是秘密。任何结果都只是练习的产物。

Okay, this is getting long so I’m going to speed things up.

好,这篇已经很长了,我要加速了。

And I have an entire guide on

而且我有一整套指南讲

... so don’t want to be redundant.

... 所以我不想重复。

At this point in time, we are in a systems economy.

在这个时间点,我们处在一个“系统经济”里。

People don’t want a solution to their problems.

人们并不想要一个“解决方案”。

They want your solution to their problems.

他们想要“你的解决方案”。

There are tons of writing products out there, so what’s different about my 2 Hour Writer product, as an example? Or even Eden, the software that I’m building that could “easily be replaced by Google Drive or Dropbox,” according to super smart people who have definitely built successful products in the YouTube comments?

市面上有成堆的写作产品,那么以我的 2 Hour Writer 产品为例,它有什么不同?甚至再看我正在构建的软件 Eden——在一些超级聪明、并且显然在 YouTube 评论区做出过成功产品的人看来,它“完全可以被 Google Drive 或 Dropbox 轻松替代”?

They’re systems that I created by getting results for myself.

它们是我通过让自己先获得结果而创造出来的系统。

2HW doesn’t teach a bunch of academic writing nonsense that doesn’t help you achieve our shared vision of living a creative and meaningful life.

2HW 不教一堆学院派写作废话——那些东西并不能帮助你实现我们共同的愿景:过一种有创造力且有意义的生活。

I had a few problems:

我有几个问题:

  • I had trouble having an endless source of content ideas.
  • 我很难拥有一个“无穷无尽”的内容点子来源。
  • I didn’t want to waste a ton of time creating content for all different platforms.
  • 我不想把大量时间浪费在为不同平台分别创作内容上。

So, I started experimenting with my own system.

于是我开始实验我自己的系统。

My goal for the system was clear: write all of the content I need to in under 2 hours a day. That way my audience growth is handled and I can focus on building better products and enjoying life.

我对这个系统的目标很清晰:每天用不到 2 小时,写完我需要写的所有内容。这样,受众增长这件事就被处理掉了,我可以专注于打造更好的产品并享受生活。

I started testing solutions to have more content ideas.

我开始测试“如何拥有更多内容点子”的解决方案。

I created swipe files, steps to generate ideas, and templates if I still couldn’t think of anything.

我建了素材库、生成点子的步骤,以及当我还是想不出东西时可用的模板。

I mapped out exactly what I was going to attempt to write each week: 3 posts a day, 1 thread a week, and 1 newsletter a week.

我把每周要写什么做了清晰规划:每天 3 条帖子,每周 1 条 thread,每周 1 期 newsletter。

During that process, I realized I could cross-post my writing to all social platforms (this is public, you can see it). I also realized that threads could be turned into carousels, and newsletters could be turned into YouTube videos.

在这个过程中,我意识到我可以把写作跨平台同步发布(这是公开的,你可以看到)。我也意识到:thread 可以变成轮播图,newsletter 可以变成 YouTube 视频。

If the system didn’t flow, I would try new things the next week.

如果这个系统运转不顺,我就下一周换新方法。

From there, I realized I could copy paste my newsletter to my blog, embed the YT video in that blog, promote my products in that blog, and turn that blog into more content ideas.

然后我意识到:我可以把 newsletter 复制粘贴到博客里,在博客里嵌入 YouTube 视频,在博客里推广我的产品,再把博客变成更多内容点子的来源。

Then, I could link that blog under my content each day.

接着,我可以把那篇博客链接放到我每天的内容下面。

This led to more newsletter subscribers, YouTube subscribers, and product sales.

这带来了更多 newsletter 订阅者、YouTube 订阅者,以及产品销量。

I realized that if everything I did was newsletter centric, that’s all I had to worry about for both growing my audience and promoting my products.

我意识到:如果我做的一切都以 newsletter 为中心,那么无论是增长受众还是推广产品,我只需要操心这一件事。

That’s how you stand out in a world of copy paste products.

这就是你如何在一个“复制粘贴产品”泛滥的世界里脱颖而出。

Yes, it takes time and experience.

是的,这需要时间与经验。

But the end result is so worth it.

但最终结果非常值得。

That’s it for this letter.

这封信就写到这里。

Thank you for reading.

感谢阅读。

– Dan

—— Dan

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DAN KOE on X: "If you have multiple interests, do not waste the next 2-3 years" / X

  • Source: https://x.com/thedankoe/status/2010042119121957316?s=20
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  • Published: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:17:04 GMT
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Society made you think that having multiple interests was a weakness.

Go to school.

Get a degree.

Get a job.

Retire at some point.

But there is so much wrong with that sequence of events.

We don’t live in the Industrial Age anymore. Specializing in one skill is almost certain death. I feel like we all know by this point how dangerous mechanical living and siloed learning is for your psyche and soul. And people can feel that we’re going through a second renaissance. Your curiosity and love for learning are your advantages in today’s world, but there is something missing.

For the longest time, I learned and learned and learned. I was stuck in tutorial hell. Some may call it shiny object syndrome to point out your lack of focus. I got my dopamine from feeling smart, but my life didn’t change all that much. Honestly, I felt like I was just falling behind. I tried so many different things in college. I had dreams of doing my own thing... earning an income from something creative... but after spending 5 years “learning,” I was met with the reality that I had to get the best job I could find just so I could survive.

The missing piece was a vessel.

A vessel that would allow me to channel all of my interests into meaningful work that I could earn a decent income from.

If you’ve ever felt guilty for not being able to pick one thing, if you’ve been told to niche down when your mind wants to expand, if you’ve wondered whether there’s a path you can take that doesn’t lead to the misery you see in everyone else’s eyes – this is the greatest time to be alive.

Here are 7 of the most compelling ideas I could come up with. We’ll start by understanding why having multiple interests is a superpower in today's world, then I’ll give you practical steps to turn that into your life’s work. We have a lot to talk about, so I hope you’re here for the ride.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations... generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. — Adam Smith

Funny you say that Mr. Smith, because you created those people, and we’re still dealing with the backlash.

Specialization took over during industrialization because, in a pin factory, for example, one worker doing every step could make 20 pins a day. Then workers, each doing one step, could make 48,000.

So we built an entire world around this model.

Humans became assembly lines working 9 to 5 because frankly, governments don’t serve the national interest, they serve their own interest. Corporations don’t serve the employees interest, they serve their own.

Schools were designed to serve that interest. Their sole purpose was to create factory workers who were punctual and obedient.

But this is no way to live.

If you want to have specialized knowledge so that you could never run an operation, especially your own operation, then be dependent on schools for your education and jobs for your wage. Be duped into believing the promise that specialization is what makes a human valuable when it is clear that the system does not need you, specifically, to perform that task.

In lies the distinction.

If pure specialization makes people stupid and dependent, what makes an individual smart and sovereign?

Three ingredients: Self-education, self-interest, self-sufficiency.

Self-education is clear, because if you want to achieve a result different from that of traditional education, you must direct your own learning.

Self-interest raises some flags. It sounds selfish and short-sighted, which many people view as bad without thinking through it, but it simply means “concern with one’s own interest,” because the only other option is to serve the interest of the organizations that compose society as it is, which we’ve discussed. In other words, follow your interest, because your interest can very well benefit others in a selfless way - depending on your level of cognitive and moral development. Oh, and by the way, indulging in short-lived pleasures (cheap dopamine) is usually not your interest, but the interest of corporations that benefit from your mindlessness.

The truly selfish person, in Ayn Rand’s view, is a self-respecting, self-supporting human being who neither sacrifices others to himself nor sacrifices himself to others. This rejects both the predator and the doormat.

Self-sufficiency is the refusal to outsource your judgment, learning, and agency. If self-education is the engine and self-interest is the compass, self-sufficiency is the foundation that prevents your life direction from being hijacked by another force. They collaborate, but are not fully dependent.

The generalist emerges naturally from this triad.

Self-interest motivates self-education.

You learn because it genuinely serves your flourishing, not because someone assigned it.

Self-education enables self-sufficiency.

You can only be sovereign over domains you understand.

Self-sufficiency clarifies self-interest.

When you’re not dependent on others’ interpretations, you can actually perceive what serves you. Most people pursue multiple interests as an escape from their work. When your interests become your work, or your life’s work, most of them start to filter out.

When we look at every CEO, founder, or creative that we actually admire, they are generalists.

They understand enough about marketing to direct it, enough about product to build it, and enough about people to lead them. But they also need to direct the ship. They need to learn and adapt when circumstances change.

More importantly, they understand that ideas across domains complement each other and create a unique way of viewing the world, which allows them to catch novel ideas from the aether and translate them into market value.

When we look at where the world is today, and if you understand the opportunities available to singular individuals, not just leaders, you will find that the options you have as a natural polymath are extensive. It should spark an immense amount of excitement in you.

Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses—especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. — Leonardo da Vinci

The ultimate moat, or the final competitive edge worth paying for, in my opinion, is an opinion.

A perspective that only you can see, because the uniqueness of your life experience created it. That may just be the last thing anyone else can replicate.

And since that’s always been the case, why not prioritize that now? Especially when automation is at our doorstep?

But how do you prioritize it? How do you develop it?

By pursuing multiple interests and building something with them.

You see, every interest you’ve ever pursued leaves behind a residue. Every interest increases the number of connections that can be made. Every interest expands and increases the complexity of how you model and interpret reality. The more complex your model of reality, the more problems you can solve, opportunities you can see, and value you can create. Specialism completely halts this process, and your shiny object syndrome has been trying to tell you this whole time.

From birth until now, you are cultivating a way of seeing things that others can’t. A way of seeing things that AI can only think if you tell it what to think.

A person who studied psychology and design sees user behavior differently from the pure designer. A person who learned sales and philosophy closes deals differently than the pure salesman. A person who understands fitness and business builds health companies that MBAs can’t comprehend.

Your edge lies more in intersection than it does in expertise.

This is the exact pattern we see in the Renaissance that is coming back with a much stronger force now.

Consider what made it possible...

Before the printing press, knowledge was scarce.

Books were copied by hand. A single text could take a scribe months to reproduce. Libraries were rare. Literacy was rarer. If you wanted to learn something outside your trade, you either had access to a monastery or you didn’t learn it.

Then Gutenberg changed everything.

Within 50 years, 20 million books flooded Europe. Ideas that once took generations to spread now moved in months. Literacy exploded. The cost of knowledge collapsed.

For the first time in history, a person could realistically pursue multiple domains of mastery in a single lifetime.

The Renaissance was the result.

Da Vinci didn’t pick one thing. He painted, sculpted, engineered, studied anatomy, designed war machines, and mapped the human body. Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect, and poet.

Unique minds are finally free to operate the way they are supposed to.

They were supposed to cross disciplines, synthesize connections, and follow curiosity wherever it led, but most of us never realized that.

The printing press was the catalyst for a new type of person to emerge. A person who could learn anything, combine everything, and create what no specialist ever could.

If you enjoy these letters, I send them out 1-2x a week.

if you want to be notified when they go out (because the algorithm probably won't show you them).

There are a few things we know so far:

  • You have multiple interests but feel like you can’t keep learning forever

  • You have a love for interest-based self-education but have to carve out time outside of your career to do it

  • You understand the need to become self-sufficient but you feel like you don’t have value worth paying for, yet

  • You need to be able to adapt fast because we don’t know what the future of work looks like

The question then is, how do we combine all of these things into one way of life?

How do we combine learning and earning into something you can do for work?

I’ll try to make this as logical as I can.

To make money from your interests, you need other people to become interested in them too. That part is trivial. If you became interested in something, other people can too, you simply must learn to persuade.

Further, you need a way for them to pay you. In this context, that usually means you need to sell a product, because you probably aren’t going to find a job that allows you to express your interests, and investing in stocks or real estate (to any effective degree) requires a good amount of capital.

In other words, you need attention.

Attention is one of the last moats.

Because when anyone can write anything or build any software, which ones are going to win? The ones that people know about. You can have the greatest product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, the person who can capture and hold attention will run laps around you.

As an aside, and if you’ve been keeping up with the tech space, no, I don’t think everyone will just “build their own software.” Most people don’t even spend 20 minutes cooking their own food. They would rather pay a few bucks for Uber Eats. And people have their own things they want to spend their time on.

Back to the point:

You need to become a creator.

Now, before you cringe and leave, I don’t exactly mean becoming a content creator (well… it’s complicated).

I mean that the solution to stop creating for someone else because you need them to give you a paycheck is to create for yourself.

Humans, by nature, are creators who were convinced that being a machine would lead to the American Dream. We are tool builders at our core. We thrive in any niche because we create solutions to problems. If a lion were put in Alaska, it would not build shelter and clothing. It would die. A lion belongs in its own niche.

The thing is, every business is a media business now. And remember, you need attention. Where is the attention? Mostly on social media until the next attention preference platform comes around - you’ll need to adapt at that point. So yes, if you have multiple interests, it would be wise to become a “content creator,” but it may be easier to think of social media as a mechanism to get your interests in front of other people. It is one piece of the puzzle to do independent work.

Plus, that covers all of our bases.

You love learning? Great, reframe it as “research” and now that’s literally your main job. Most of the things I write about simply come from me learning about my interests and treating social media like I’m “taking notes in public.”

(You’re already spending time learning, now just spend that time learning in public and boom you have the foundation of a business).

You need to become self-sufficient? Well, you’d need a business to do that, and every business needs to attract customers, and you probably don’t give two f*cks about paid ads, SEO, or any other form of marketing. This is what trips many people up because they are only used to doing one specialized task within a business as an employee.

You need to be able to adapt? Amazing, you can build and launch new products to your audience as fast as you can build them. I have a solid audience, and if my next product were to fail, I have people who would be willing to invest, be a part of the team, or support the next product. You can build your little SaaS company, but if you don’t have distribution, you are putting in marathons of extra leg work into getting capital, finding talent, and getting things off the ground.

No other job or business model allows you to do just that with so much freedom.

But how do you actually start building it?

How do you tie all of this together?

It’s unfortunate that “entrepreneurship” and “business” have become dirty words that make people think they aren’t qualified to take that path, so much so that when an opportunity comes up, they don’t even notice it.

If you’ve ever helped someone with your interests, you’re qualified to start a business.

They no longer require upfront capital. They are not reserved for unethical elites. They are not only for people who want to make a lot of money. And they are not only for talented or special people.

The reality is that entrepreneurship is in our nature. It is modern survival. We are wired to create and distribute value to a tribe of like-minded people. We are wired to hunt, explore the unknown, seek novelty, and never stagnate. Psychologically, this is the most enjoyable way of life, even if there are low periods, because those are what allow the (non-artificial) highs to exist.

Further, the barrier of entry has collapsed.

All you really need is a laptop and internet connection.

Distribution is now free thanks to social media (well, not free, but skill-based, which can be expensive in time). Anyone can post an idea that reaches millions, and if they have a product, those millions of eyes can result in millions of dollars if you know what you’re doing, and that’s a big if. Most people just love becoming really good at an interest or skill that doesn’t directly impact their success, potentially because they’re afraid of it.

Tools and technology now handle what used to require teams of people. You have access to AI and a plethora of useful software.

Now, there are 2 paths you can take to start.

Path 1) Skill-Based

This is what dominated the internet for the longest time. You “learn a marketable skill.” You teach that skill through content. Then you sell a product or service related to that skill.

The limitation here is the limitation of being a specialist. It is one-dimensional. You put yourself in a box. You “niche down” because you were told it is more profitable, and since you’re chasing profit over interest, you tend to build yourself into a second 9-5 where you do work you don’t care about for people you don’t care about.

Path 2) Development-Based

The creators that win right now are those without a niche they can be pinned down to. Typically, they are focused on one of the 4 eternal markets: health, wealth, relationships, happiness. Or even all of them. Technically, everyone’s niche is self-actualization, they are just all taking infinitely unique paths to get there.

  • They pursue your own goals (brand).

  • They teach what you learn (content).

  • They help others achieve the goal faster (product).

For those with multiple interests, I obviously recommend this path, because it goes a bit deeper.

First, when you take this path, you are also taking the first path. Because building your brand, content, and product requires you to become good at all of the relevant marketable skills, so even if you fail, you have something worth paying for. You are building your business, and you can help others with a specific part of theirs if you are good at it.

Second, it flips the traditional model on its head.

You don’t create a customer avatar so that you can niche down and only focus on that. You turn yourself into the customer avatar.

That makes things much more palatable.

You pursue your goals in life and develop yourself → you have already validated the usefulness of what you will offer → you help the past version of yourself reach that same goal.

Don’t be a YouTube creator.

Don’t be a personal brand.

Don’t be an influencer.

Be you. But in a place where your work can be discovered, followed, and supported. Right now and for the foreseeable future, that’s on the internet.

Jordan Peterson (or others like him) isn’t a “content creator,” even though that’s how it seems on the surface.

He goes on tours, writes books, leverages social media as a base, and uses all of the tools at his disposal to spread his life’s work. He isn’t worried about the latest content idea trend. His mind outperforms any of those myopic growth strategies. The quality of his ideas is what sets him apart and changes people’s lives (regardless of your opinion on Peterson).

With that, I want to provide a different perspective on brand, content, and product. That way you can use this as a vessel for your life’s work.

Stop thinking of your brand as a profile picture and social media bio.

Brand is an environment where people come to transform.

Brand is the little world you are inviting others into.

Brand isn’t illustrated when a reader first visits your profile.

Brand is the accumulation of ideas in your reader’s mind after 3-6 months of following you.

You illustrate your worldview, story, and philosophy for life across every single touchpoint. Your banner, profile picture, bio, link in bio, landing page design, pinned content, posts, threads, newsletters, videos, and the rest.

In other words, your brand is this:

Your brand is your story.

It would help to spend a day writing out where you came from, the “low” points of your life, the experiences you’ve had and skills you’ve acquired, and how those things have helped you the most.

When you’re thinking of ideas, content, or products, you should filter them through your story. This doesn’t mean you have to talk about yourself all the time. It means you have to align what you’re saying so that your brand is cohesive.

The difficult part is realizing that your story is worth telling, even if you think it’s boring or haven’t reflected on your growth.

The point:

Your bio and profile picture do not matter. There are literal people with one word in their bio and a singular color for their profile picture.

My recommendation:

  • Make a list of 5-10 people you respect online

  • Look at their profile picture, bio, and content

  • Take mental note of patterns between them

  • Start formulating what you should do for your own brand, with your own little spin

In all honesty, I wouldn’t overcomplicate this or even worry about it. Your brand will take shape as you start writing content. We could even say that brand is content, so we need to get that right.

This article on the

world may help.

The internet is a fire hose of information.

AI is only adding more noise.

That means trust and signal are more important than ever.

In my opinion, the guiding light for your content should be to curate the best possible ideas in one place. Your brand is a collection of all the ideas you care about, in your own words, under one account on the internet.

If you have any plans to do podcasts or public speaking, notice how the best speakers always have 5-10 of their best arguments or ideas top of mind. They repeat these over and over and that’s how they build influence. If you don’t have a set of those 5-10 ideas, then you won’t be as impactful as you could be. Writing a truckload of content is how you discover those ideas.

Once the “idea density” of your content increases with time and effort, that’s what creates a brand worth following and paying for.

The goal of curating ideas to include under your brand should fall at the intersection of:

  • Performance – the ideas have the potential to “do well.” This is the measure of how much other people will care.

  • Excitement – the ideas give you a sense of excitement to write about them. This is the measure of how much you care.

Art and business.

Metrics and performance shouldn’t determine everything, but they do mean something.

Step 1) Build an idea museum

The secret of most creatives you love is that they keep a ruthless curation of notes, ideas, and sources of inspiration.

In other words, they have a “swipe file,” as marketers call it.

You can use

(if you have access), Apple Notes, Notion, or whatever else you want, but I want to make this very clear:

You need somewhere to jot down ideas as soon as they come to mind.

This is a critical habit.

Whenever you find an idea that is useful, either now or in the near future, write it down. You don’t need content pillars or 2-3 topics to talk about. The ideas you curate should simply be important to you. That alone means they are relevant to a specific niche of a person: you. However, you can create a

if you’d like.

I don’t care how you structure this. It can be a neat and organized set of documents, or it can be a messy running note without structure. The habit matters more than the format.

You gauge performance by glancing at the likes, views, or general engagement of a post to see if it has the potential to resonate. If the idea falls flat or does worse than their other content, it probably won’t do well for you.

You gauge excitement by noticing when you feel as if you are wasting something valuable if you don’t write it down.

Step 2) Curate based on idea density

How do you start filling your idea museum?

You need 3-5 sources of information that have high idea density.

When I say “idea density,” I mean an idea that is high signal.

It’s difficult to explain how to find something that is high signal, because that is subjective. It’s dependent on your level of development (what’s useful for you), your audience’s level of development (what’s useful for them), and your translation from one to another.

The most basic piece of advice could be the most valuable thing in the world for someone else, but it may seem like common knowledge to you.

With time, you will tune your own signal-to-noise ratio by seeing what ideas resonate with your audience and which don’t.

The most idea-dense sources of information:

  • Old or little-known books – I have 5 books that I reread over and over again because the ideas are so good. These are where the timeless principles live, untouched by trends.

  • Curated blogs, accounts, or books – Blogs like Farnam Street curate the best ideas from modern intellectuals. Accounts like Navalism curate Naval’s best ideas. Books like The Maxwell Daily Reader have one of Maxwell’s best ideas one day at a time for a year. These do a lot of the heavy lifting for you, allowing you to pick and choose the best of the best.

  • Heavy-hitting social accounts – I have a list of maybe 5 social accounts that always post great ideas. If I don’t have something to write about, I’ll scroll through their page and find something I have an opinion on and write about that.

Finding these sources takes a few months of discovery. But the result of maintaining an idea museum of dense ideas leads to you creating idea-dense content.

Your idea museum becomes a representation of the mind you are attempting to create.

That’s the ultimate goal.

To have a library of content so good that people can’t help but open your emails, turn on post notifications, share your ideas with friends, and think about your ideas often.

You become a curator of ideas that people wouldn’t even think to ask AI for, and that people would never come across organically.

That’s how you become less dependent on the algorithm for your success.

Step 3) Write 1 idea 1000 different ways

Becoming a good writer or speaker isn’t only about the idea, but how the idea is articulated.

The idea does a lot of the heavy lifting, but the structure is what makes it engaging, unique, and impactful.

Let me show you what I mean.

Take this post structure:

One pattern I’ve noticed in happy people: They’re obsessive about maintaining their mental clarity.

The idea here is that happy people maintain their mental clarity.

The structure is formatted in 2 parts: a hook in the form of an observation, and the delivery of what the observation is.

It seems simple, but the difference in the structure of an idea can make all the difference.

Now, if I take the same idea but use a “list” structure:

Happy people are clear-minded people:– They take time for rest– They focus on one singular goal– They ruthlessly eliminate distractions In other words, happy people are obsessive about maintaining their mental clarity.

Same idea. Different structure. Different impact.

If you wanted to, you could practice writing the same idea with every single post structure you come across.

Here’s how to practice this:

First, break down 3 ideas into their structure.

Choose 3 posts from your idea museum that resonated with you. Then, try to break down each part of the idea and write why it works.

If you don’t have experience with content psychology, that’s okay. You learn it as you practice.

This is the perfect time to employ AI for help. Try this prompt for each post:

Do a comprehensive analysis on this social post. The overall idea, how the sentences are structured, and choice of words. Analyze why people engage with it, why it works so well, what psychological tactics are being used, and how I can replicate this style step-by-step with my own ideas.

Then paste the post below the prompt.

I’d recommend Claude as the model to use for this over ChatGPT or Gemini.

Continue doing this for any idea you find along your journey that you want to incorporate as part of your writing style. You can use this for videos as well, not just posts.

Second, rewrite 3 ideas with different structures.

Go back to your idea museum and choose one idea you didn’t use in step one.

Then, try rewriting that idea with the 3 post structures you just broke down.

This is how you develop range.

This is how you stop staring at blank screens.

This is how you turn one idea into a week’s worth of content.

Why are we doing this?

Well, you now have all of the secrets to creating content that stands out and coming up with good ideas.

Seriously, those are the secrets. Any results that come from them are a matter of practice.

Okay, this is getting long so I’m going to speed things up.

And I have an entire guide on

... so don’t want to be redundant.

At this point in time, we are in a systems economy.

People don’t want a solution to their problems.

They want your solution to their problems.

There are tons of writing products out there, so what’s different about my 2 Hour Writer product, as an example? Or even Eden, the software that I’m building that could “easily be replaced by Google Drive or Dropbox,” according to super smart people who have definitely built successful products in the YouTube comments?

They’re systems that I created by getting results for myself.

2HW doesn’t teach a bunch of academic writing nonsense that doesn’t help you achieve our shared vision of living a creative and meaningful life.

I had a few problems:

  • I had trouble having an endless source of content ideas.

  • I didn’t want to waste a ton of time creating content for all different platforms.

So, I started experimenting with my own system.

My goal for the system was clear: write all of the content I need to in under 2 hours a day. That way my audience growth is handled and I can focus on building better products and enjoying life.

I started testing solutions to have more content ideas.

I created swipe files, steps to generate ideas, and templates if I still couldn’t think of anything.

I mapped out exactly what I was going to attempt to write each week: 3 posts a day, 1 thread a week, and 1 newsletter a week.

During that process, I realized I could cross-post my writing to all social platforms (this is public, you can see it). I also realized that threads could be turned into carousels, and newsletters could be turned into YouTube videos.

If the system didn’t flow, I would try new things the next week.

From there, I realized I could copy paste my newsletter to my blog, embed the YT video in that blog, promote my products in that blog, and turn that blog into more content ideas.

Then, I could link that blog under my content each day.

This led to more newsletter subscribers, YouTube subscribers, and product sales.

I realized that if everything I did was newsletter centric, that’s all I had to worry about for both growing my audience and promoting my products.

That’s how you stand out in a world of copy paste products.

Yes, it takes time and experience.

But the end result is so worth it.

That’s it for this letter.

Thank you for reading.

– Dan

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