262: đŞClimbing Down the Entrepreneurial Ladder â Rolling in Dđ¤Śđťââď¸h
1/26/2024
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âThings today are waaayyyyy better than Things have ever been. Cavemen had sticks. In the Middle ages they had typhoid. We have iPhones and Hermann Miller chairs and shoes with air in the soles. Inside the soles! How do they get the air inside the soles??? We are living in the Golden Age of Things, in the Golden Empire of Things.â
âShalom Auslander's Fetal Position via Beckett Drove a Deux Chevaux
I first encountered the Apple billboard a few days after Christmas. I was walking down Fourteenth Street in the Meatpacking district, and there it wasâan Apple ad declaring âNewphoria!â in enormous print.
We donât need newphoria. We need oldphoria, the joy in what already exists. We need simplephoria, the joy in streamlining. We need enoughphoria, the celebration that what we have and who we are is already enough. Newphoria, at least as it relates to running a small business, is not always all itâs cracked up to be.
Todayâs post is a crossover from Rolling in Dđ¤Śđťââď¸hâyou can read the post and reply in the comments here: Climbing Down the Entrepreneurial Ladder.
đ Permission
Celebrate your own -phoria, the joy in running your business in the way that works best for you!
đ Resources Mentioned
Dđ¤Śđťââď¸h Articles: Love That! For You đ, COnTenT cReaToRs exist and subsist in the verrrrrrry looooooooooooong tailâs trough, 𤏠Rant From the Wound: Why This Platitude Meme Engraged Me, Serendipity signage
Katherine Raz on closing the second location of her Fernseed business in Tacoma
Emily McDowellâs experience of running a small business that blew upâin a good wayâbut also led to burnout: The truth about going mega-viral, part one and part two.
Nathan Barryâs The Ladders of Wealth Creation
Jonathan Fieldâs The Unfortunate Middle
JB for CNBC: Treat your career like a smart phone, not a ladder
NYT: Climbing Down the Corporate Ladder. Big thanks to Rob Walker for including me in this Workologist column! Itâs still a career highlight. Heâs now here on Substack at The Art of Noticing
Video: If you want to geek out further on idea gathering process: hereâs a Loom walkthrough of my Collection Bucket in Notion.
Recent Free Time workshop by Stephanie Huston with a template for creating and batching content for the year ahead.
Apps: Substack
đ Books Mentioned
Iâm not immune from status-chasingânone of us are. In his book, The Status Game, Will Storr categorizes these games into three types: dominance, success, and virtue. My two all-time favorite books on this topic are Alain de Bottonâs Status Anxiety and Wanting by Luke Burgis who is on Substack at Ride or Drive and Anti-Mimetic.
Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Life After College
đ§Â Related Episodes
Listen to the audio version of Jonathan Fields reading âThe Unfortunate Middleâ here, and check out our series of 12 SPARKED episodes (Spotify Playlist).
Pivot: 305: Is What Youâre Wanting Actually Whatâs Best For You? With Luke Burgis
Pivot x RadReads conversations on status with Khe Hy (Spotify Playlist)
Free Time: Here are some of my favorite Free Time conversations with small business owners who downsized their operations:
016: IP Licensing and âNo Full-Time Employeesâ with Lee LeFever
131: Scaling Joy While Streamlining Business Overhead with Kaneisha Grayson
157: Downshifting to a Delightfully Part-Team Team with Laura Roeder
173: Cut Your LossesâEven While Pivoting in Public with Khe Hy
205: Turning Down a $200K Two-Book Traditional Publishing Deal with Paul Millerd
241: Finding Freedom and Financial Reciprocity through a Paid Newsletter
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