The Importance of Being Yourself

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It is easy to make a trade off when growing a personal brand online, sacrificing who you are in favor of what you can achieve.
The key to success is to be yourself, and to not try to be someone you are not.

When does a creator become a company? Who says that media companies — or venture firms — have to be organizations? How high is the ceiling on one person + the internet? Acquired has the answers and they are... Not Boring. 🙂

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Links:

Not Boring: https://www.notboring.co/
Proto-Not Boring: https://www.packym.com/blog/nyc-debate-club
Not Boring's first sponsor deck: https://projector.com/story/2cb6296d-e229-4774-839c-efbf86d7f69f?scene=7127c7a0
Jake Singer's Not Boring Flywheel: https://theflywheel.substack.com/p/not-boring-packy-m
Proof Ben was famous even before Acquired: https://web.archive.org/web/20150814041757/https://www.seattletimes.com/business/high-octane-leader-drives-microsoftrsquos-innovation-garage/

Carve Outs:

Velcro swaddles (dad life...): https://www.amazon.com/s?k=velcro+swaddle
An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3: https://www.psl.com/feed-posts/web3-engineer-take
Rabbits: https://www.amazon.com/Rabbits-Novel-Terry-Miles-ebook/dp/B08HY29VM2

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