Jakob Greenfeld

The subculture of erotic productivity is exactly where the second brain subculture was around 2015 – underrated, little known, but learning how to tap into immense sources of power

Build the company you want to work for, that’s how you become an entrepreneur. Write the book you want to read, that’s how you become an author. What you do will become who you are—you become xyz not by watching others, but by doing it yourself. What you create creates you:

Idk who needs this but I’ve seen a few startups fail because of founder burn out. I haven’t seen any startups fail because a founder took a couple days off.

According to this study, remote workers watch over 3 hours more TV each week compared to in-office workers

So out of the 4.5 hours we save each week on average by not having a commute, we spend 3.1 of those hours, or 69%, watching TV

I really hate the term content creator. It’s such a corporate way of describing artists, writers, intellectuals, and other creatives who ultimately just want to create work they’re proud of.

Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more

If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one?

The Internet needs to get much weirder. People out there are tired of deep-fried data, too, and want substance.

The people I find most interesting on social media are using it as a sort of diary/note to self, not broadcasting to an audience.