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JoseLuis Vilar's avatar

What a great piece and thoughts! I love the "When I was on Instagram, I routinely felt inadequate because I wasn’t running a drop shopping business or day trading in my spare time or building a vending machine empire."

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Jaryd Hermann's avatar

The temptation to do what we think we should, and the guilt if we don’t, is real! Thanks for reading sir 🙏

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Nicos's avatar
7dEdited

A great piece! Honest and candid introspection. Well put and resonates on all levels. Thank you!

PS to help you tune your distro channels: i got the signal on your post from TL;DR Founders newsletter

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Jaryd Hermann's avatar

Thanks for letting me know about that! And glad it resonated Nicos 🙏

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Kate Syuma's avatar

Such a beautiful piece! Thanks for sharing 🫶 I’m wondering (as a fellow creator), what helped you build a “stability” while doing things you’re doing today?

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Liz Farris's avatar

Loved it, Jaryd! Thanks for sharing — just when I needed it the most.

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Jaryd Hermann's avatar

Oh hey Liz! 🕺 love to hear that

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Jaryd Hermann's avatar

Thank you so much, Kate 🙏 Do you mean stability in writing/creating?

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Kate Syuma's avatar

I mean more in income sources — I see that for independent creators (who create newsletters, podcasts, courses, etc.) it might be a bigger bottleneck in life 🙏

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Jaryd Hermann's avatar

Aah, got you. I still have a full-time job in product management which is that pillar for me. I'm probably a good couple years away from being able to realize my want of "work 3 hours per day on my own business". But I know that is the direction for me, vs climbing higher...so it helps with how I think about the next couple of years work-wise and the things I need to work on to get there.

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