Snorting the strategy. Critique and considerations.

Aaaaah, inspiration p***, you can't help those hot showers even though they are selling is merely control. This 

Except being picked by a system is not what this is about, it's altering it, of bending societal control. Well what is called strategy, be patient, such a simple concept explored in multiple riffs which is to be accepted.

First, gotta give thanks to Seth for making me start this blog, there's no denying he works for investors within a b corp. Yet it's certainly a good placebo, as he describes. Even if it may not influence my thinking, the internal story feels like a dazzle.

His thinking of blueprints, feedback loops and the way of business models and leverage are all well and good, stuff they should teach freelancers within entertainment to help watch their business. He repeats his famous blog posts, and it reads like a string of unconnected blog posts, little snippets of thoughts for the uninitiated, this is a style you're going to have to get used it.

It's a morale booster, yet that's all it is. Enough to control the work schedule, out of all of it could be negatively categorised a self-help from the era of salesmen and it's hacks. I'd recommend Seth's Godin The Practice, and his entire free podcast series to figure out your own opinion. There's still learning to be had, be aware of the baggage, as much as part as I bring mine.

There's always going to be a societal need for this, given how much the lands are filled with swindlers in this day and age.

Already he went from those suspicious rags-to-riches stories regarding apple, which is a point against the book. Claude Ai too, meeeeh. Haven't needed to use it to clarify my thoughts.

Oh, and intuitionism, stuff not written down and systemised will always be part of business models, it's about transactional attention that of the service industry. Till it's outlived. A bit too much scientism and unsympathetic for the concept of revolution. It all feels like a CEO point of view may have overtaken him, he does his best to try to hide it though. Goes into the last part with talks about the free market (Which flew right past my head) then onto talks of a carbon tax and with community action.

To quote

"Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.

Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the centre bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the centre bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about “meritocracy” and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren't visiting the carnival. They're the ones working it."

When will this non-profit business last? Until I die. Afford what you can to avoid the ad creep.

Fair share of disagreements and agreements entering within the commercial field.

See you for the next book you'll publish, Seth. These will all be added into the syncretic domain. Nothing like getting bashed with the same marketing rules over and over till something clicks, ah, those on-the-nose themes.

Did he use AI for the bookcover? Oh gosh, the paranoia has got me.

To be entertained by [_______]

Pick entertainment, of what holds the attention, then decide the path forwards ontologically.

Entertainment of ad-driven platforms to enter, to hold, all for the sake of it. Keep the cobra effect, all the perverse incentives. 

Whatever you pay attention too, is there any intent or is the attention being held with complete justification, all those impulses, seductions, and twists of the mental state. Hold us all in perpetual motions of patterns, locked into a sense of making mean in circles, reiterated into new cycles.

That's business, where the proved and new patterns made.

Race-to-the-bottoms cannot separate fact or fiction, from the entertainment that's meant to be fiction, best to avoid and work for such patterns, then move on.

Choose what holds you, choose the shape one becomes.

Self-Help = Naked On-The-Nose Benefit

I've got to the moment, If one was to define a benefit, this is a self-help. Of course, without the over-commercialised usage it's become. 

If the conceptual definition is to broaden it, this is what happens.

It can be to the moment that it's all self-defeating if it's called an oxymoron, with all the ways that be made. Should they make a genre of self-defeating aswell?

Nah, the way it could be made clear, the self-defeat and self-help industry complexes move together. With the costs of lending towards new books, the attempt to make utility a fetish that's made it. This utility has become another dependence. Will the boundaries be placed, the guardrails will happen.

Call the creative assertions with benefit, then the other hackneyed works self-service. (The morality of that self-service is another matter.)

With the bouncing of control and dis-control, woosh.

Commercial Chameloan

There's something that happens to publishers, and I can't blame them for the axiology, it's something that I have to be realistic as they fail in profits.

It's the opportunism and the perverse incentives that follow along with such a race-to-the-bottom, no surprise. The only clarity I get from these decisions that they want to be paid excessively well, beyond magnitude.

Beware of that type of person who will act sycophantic and then not move towards the self-care cost-of-living when it matters. That's the story we all live with. Only one story, though, others not reductionist.

When an indie publisher asks for a delivery of an audience with no strings attached (Or aren't they? Check the contract.) It's a gate keep for the right reasons, a question of utility that's made, sadly dreams aren't meant to be accurate, it's the antithesis to the accurate in order for them to work. It's the obligation of what is made afterwards and then onwards.

Sometimes the ruthlessness is not a negative aspect. Better consistent than a that. Using to whatever passion of belief system to serve happy amateurism.

The One and only/remarkability = Law of attraction nonsense

 Apparently SSSniperwolf and react channels are 'unique' and 'one and only' oh, how have the taste of the audience have shifted towards the lower realms. Influencer marketing has been renamed, with the means of attention going round and round.

Do this, remark on it, and pray for luck.

Even that is too seductive of a reverse-engineer. Maybe the same pattern is in taste to new fruit.

Even with a religious workout regime of health and work schedule. Along with a sensible work-life balance. The Element of luck and system from individual responsibility. Along with what is called emotional labour.

The luck could be taken for granted

Humans as Resource : Ponziomics

 

This book.

Well, ignoring the Orwellian normalised speak (Double-think? Double-Talk? Merely call them paradoxes or thought-terminating clichés.), this is honest reporting on a phenomon that is distinctly western.

Infinite opportunity, Endless chain, pay to play, Recruiting Mandate, Bottom-To-Top. Travelling to what a swindle within a salesman of cons and it's hacks. It's merely into the epitome of the specification of entertainment, to the human's as exploitable product, and to be made to follow and dancey jig. Scientific management, into this.

Or resource, managed to be exploited more and more into empty sinks line with perverse incentives, now that's a thought.

Same music, same old jig of the times that were happening to the atheist movement that occurred with this, mlm-fication of certain 'friend' groups of attention deposits. Where the return ain't going anywhere if one ain't treating it like a business.

When Robert takes from eastern figures such as Hannah Arendts again, I don't think I expect much. It's the reporting to apply it within the fields of these bad 'business' models. (It ain't a business model, it's a cult of money going into a black hole, made by dishonest betrayal and the hackneyed 'exscuse' of selling a product.) The Cult masquerading as a Profit-making venture is the negation of the negation in regards to logical success.

That's the reality of what in industry now.

Vain glory oxymoron

There is the worst schedule in the world, within the libertarian dystopia, it could be one's own.

Still thinking about how vain-glory this Stockholm condition to capitalism is, Insecure status roles lead to lying about work-schedules that and the exploitation of passion an industry addicted to mass-market advertising.

What a way to indicate as little passion and to creative industries.

A pull the ladder behind oneself.

Greg Capullo has been... lying about his work schedule, and there are others who lie about their work-hours too. Only with my sensitivity with a physical coach and my own.

These syllabuses of others life will never translate into your own, regardless of the truth. Should not degrade into Tik-tok Clip farming, edited for SEO.

Professionalism is whatever they want it to mean for them, including getting dominion.

Since then, He may have back-peddled, yet this advice will all crop up again like the Bulgarian training split, it refuses to die because sex sells.

‪Colin Spacetwinks‬ ‪@spacetwinks.bsky.social‬
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"to this day still cannot wrap my head around direct market comics pros and them not just being relentlessly exploited, but frequently being eager about that exploitation, proud of their exploitation, instead of once ever thinking "the way our bosses treat us is ****** up"


this Justice League America page by Kyle Baker came out in May, 1991. It is 33 years old and you still see comics pros enthusiastically acting like this


the only group of creators that i think ever act this ******* eager to get ****** over instead of acting in their own interest against their bosses and publishers is like. Y.A. fiction writers

*** still remembering when BOOM! only paying $50 a page for artists for awhile was *a publicly known thing* and plenty of comic artists were still going "yeah i'll take that job". you'd get better pay for far less work doing a handful of SFW fursona headshots on a twitch stream

comic pros are so frequently a very strange combo of being incredibly prideful but simultaneously having very little self-respect or ability to act in their self-interest"


‪Matt E. Reals‬ ‪@innerpartisan.bsky.social‬
"You'll find the exact same attitude with many people working in creative industries, like animators and video game devs. Stockholm syndrome for capitalism coupled with insecure narcissism for the own status, I'd say."

Cheryl Lynn Eaton

‪@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social‬

Sorry to log back on and jump into being depressing, but...for what? 1995 is not returning. You are not going to become Capullo by sacrificing friends and hobbies. You cannot become a rich man via comics anymore. And you don't have to sacrifice your health or a social life to be a great artist.

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‪Cheryl Lynn Eaton‬ ‪@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social‬

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Imagine breaking your back and stressing yourself out for poverty. Baby, that is INSANE. You have a better chance getting rich with scratch-offs. I am so serious.

‪Cheryl Lynn Eaton‬ ‪@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social‬

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15d

If you love comics? Make comics. Make them on the side as a hobby. Do not expect to become rich from them. Yes, even if you are incredibly talented. And fast. Also, the industry doesn't give a **** about you. Because NO industry gives a **** about employees.

‪Cheryl Lynn Eaton‬ ‪@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social‬

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15d

And I'm not saying this to be mean, but to prevent another me. Big-name creators giving advice on breaking into comics is like a Boomer who bought his million-dollar house in 1974 for $20,000 giving real estate advice.

‪Cheryl Lynn Eaton‬ ‪@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social‬

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15d

You go to a Capullo or Lee for advice on the artistic process. Perspective, shading, breaking down a stellar action sequence. They are BRILLIANT. Don't go to them (or ANY '90s/'00s star) for advice on how to get rich or get on Batman in 2024. They don't know.

‪Skanedog‬ ‪@skanedog.bsky.social‬

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15d

100% this. Their skill is largely (and will likely remain) unmatched. They are artists in every sense of the word. But they do not know - and can never know - what it is like to start in their industry *now*.