Money is replaceable but time isn't, so creators must respect their audience's hours by avoiding mediocre work. Small variations, like a new seasoning in a familiar recipe, can be enough to stand out in the noise.
Like anybody could get the proverbial microphone doesn't mean you should, right? Because the most sacred and scarce thing people have today, in my opinion, is not their money, it's their time, right? So I don't mind wasting 20, 30 bucks buying a book that I think is mediocre. I won't waste 8 hours of my life reading it, right? So what I just won't, right? So I think the real issue is how do you stand out from the noise, right? Do you really have something different? and new to say. New doesn't need to be, well, the world is flat or the world is round. New could be a nuance or a slight different variation or a little bit, you know, think of it as a recipe, a little bit of different seasoning that you put into the stew that changes it, right? So I think that's really where it gets interesting is how do you break through the noise?
