Thanks for voicing this. A lot of people said similar things to me privately before I posted the article. Apparently a lot of people have tried similar attempts to this article and had them massively down voted and go nowhere. I’m very thankful that these people shared their concerns with me, because if I hadn’t gotten that feedback, I would not have put nearly as much effort into editing and honing, and almost certainly would have bombed as well.
I have a lot of thoughts on this—I’m currently just finishing a course by the Rejuvenate people that teaches coaches and holistic practitioners how to create successful businesses. I’ve been inspired both by the workshop and the comments in this article to switch niches from working with people who are depressed, to creating a program that combines what I’m learning with Rejuvenate and my knowledge of Less Wrong types and futurists in general. (what they teach totally worked for me—I took their program “Double Your Practice in 90 Days” and quadrupled my (small) income in a month, after coaching for years) Working on this problem of helping people in the community implement their ideas successfully is so much higher leverage than anything else I can think of that I could do.
Also worth noting—there have been many start-ups in the Less Wrong and extended community already, some of which are very successful, such as Quixey. it just seems like from what I’ve seen talent wise in the community, there should be a lot more start ups than there are, and a relatively high percentage of those should be extremely profitable compared to the average start-up.
Thanks for voicing this. A lot of people said similar things to me privately before I posted the article. Apparently a lot of people have tried similar attempts to this article and had them massively down voted and go nowhere. I’m very thankful that these people shared their concerns with me, because if I hadn’t gotten that feedback, I would not have put nearly as much effort into editing and honing, and almost certainly would have bombed as well.
I have a lot of thoughts on this—I’m currently just finishing a course by the Rejuvenate people that teaches coaches and holistic practitioners how to create successful businesses. I’ve been inspired both by the workshop and the comments in this article to switch niches from working with people who are depressed, to creating a program that combines what I’m learning with Rejuvenate and my knowledge of Less Wrong types and futurists in general. (what they teach totally worked for me—I took their program “Double Your Practice in 90 Days” and quadrupled my (small) income in a month, after coaching for years) Working on this problem of helping people in the community implement their ideas successfully is so much higher leverage than anything else I can think of that I could do.
Also worth noting—there have been many start-ups in the Less Wrong and extended community already, some of which are very successful, such as Quixey. it just seems like from what I’ve seen talent wise in the community, there should be a lot more start ups than there are, and a relatively high percentage of those should be extremely profitable compared to the average start-up.