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The Return of Gio Pennacchietti - A Map Of The Dissident Ecosystem

Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

CHAPTER

How to Promote a Book, You Know?

Kenneda: The more of yoursuff you put into it, the less scared you are to ask compensation for it. He says people steal his ideas all the time; he's sure this happens with every wave of new books. Kenneda is a self-confessed fraud who lives in New York City and has no plans to go back home.

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Speaker 2
And in a way, wat o, the oppositenii, it is kind of the opposite
Speaker 1
way do an hes all a lie, i'm actul
Speaker 2
the the more i you want your stuff to get out there, the more you kind of, the more of yoursuff you put into it, the kind of more scared you are to actually ask compensation for it, or tas actly. And that's ayknow, cause you're very investedin it. And if people rejectit, or, like, if you get like, two substact subscribers, you're like, you know, the core of my being has been rejected. And
Speaker 1
there and there posters who i consider like, ten times better than mend anda, people who have like, ideas that are interesting, but yet they probably do only get 50 views on you tuber. Hat like hor they get 500 followers, ye. But the thing is, kenneda,
Speaker 2
the grift, the promotion, the being out there, the interaction with people, is part of the game. Like, for example, y there was a wholsier bond thing, like the fact that he wrote this book. I'm sure the book is good, you know, imperiam press. You know, a lot of people like the book a, it didn't get a lot of traction, because it quite quite overwrought. He's not very good at promoting it. You know, i like, ye, you are first, you know, level of o en r x. Other people are feeding off thes ideas. Everyone read moldbug, you know, after they read molbuk, they, they read to juvenal, and they bipassed your book, and now those ideas are in the main stream. And the only idea, the only way he can imagine that happening is just likesome mysterious cabal of, you know, millionaires pumping money into zero. Hp lefe, who is one of the the best writers in existence, and knows how to tug and spin phrase, you know, better than anyone. It's not i pen. He's not seating im te lines. There
Speaker 1
are certain people, there's a certain group of friends that i feel, not the sa bon, but i feel like a, again, i don't want to mention his name, a that probably felt that way. And when when bap's star rose. Well, you know, i'm
Speaker 2
sure this happens, as with every wave of this. And
Speaker 1
some, i know people thatave, ye people, people have like, stole, that's the part. But when you put yourself out there, you have to realize that people are going to steal your ideas. It happens all the timeo
Speaker 2
horace.

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