- Right Words
- Posts
- Stop asking for permission
Stop asking for permission
Remove all preconceptions about the "right" way
You were born a creator, not a cog in someone else's industrial machine.
Yet from the first institutionalized bus ride at age 5, they started indoctrinating you into compliance with the antiquated Time $=$ Labor value exchange.
Selling the majority of your waking hours and life force for a paycheck quickly became the unconscious script you defaulted to.
But deep down, you knew there had to be another way. A non-domesticated existence without comparative metrics like promotions, salaries, or corporate approval.
The digital renaissance has finally cracked that code wide open. Ushering in an autonomous future where you print value backed by the only form of currency that matters: Customers willingly giving you money.
Welcome to the solopreneurs' digital jailbreak.
Storming the Value Gates
Businesses have historically relied on centralized production and distribution to earn revenue. Office spaces, investor capital, complex staffing hierarchies - the excessive overheads were worth it for the power of manufacturing and selling at scale.
That industrial complexity is your digital kryptonite as a nimble solopreneur.
You now possess the ability to become the world's most highly leveraged manufacturer and distributor of value:
One Instagram reel = infinite content repurposing
One audience-owned email list = global customer saturation
One evergreen flagship offer = passive income singularity
The centralized model thrives on inefficiency and bureaucracy. Your decentralized digital operation runs on creative uptime and output lean.
No more relying on the crumbs of rented attention and ad revenues from Big Tech overlords. You sell direct to society's most valuable currency: devoted communities who gladly exchange for your singular insight.
Flagrant Idea Execution
Freedom begins when you stop asking for permission. Or deferring to socially-approved norms for success someone else constructed.
"Should I get a Masters degree to validate my authority?"
"Should I start on YouTube since everyone says that's the move?"
"Should I build my brand on Twitter or LinkedIn?"
Overthinking status quo adherence is the prison keeping you hostage.
True idea execution unfolds based on proximity to the familiar.
What environments, conversations and problems are you immersed in that 99% of the world is oblivious to?
From that fertile undisturbed ground springs your unique point of view, ready to be shared to unsuspecting audiences.
Remove all preconceptions about the "right" distribution platform or medium. Your radical truth has limitless forms through which it manifests:
Discord server unlocking underground insights
Self-published book
Cohort workshop series
Digital courses
Unique insights derived from your lived experiences delivered via the channel most native to you - not artificially forced where it doesn’t make sense.
The opportunity to establish a unique voice during the AI boom will set you up for profits and freedom.
Total Digital Repatriation
If you’re like me you’ve always felt this nagging sense that what you’ve been told to do and what was expected wasn’t for you:
Solopreneurs extracting themselves from gig-hustle purgatory
Burned-out corporate drones seeking renaissance
Small business rogues systematically divorcing the 9-5 grind
Pioneers testing unconventional no-overhead models
What unites us is the desire to inject our work directly into the homes, offices, and attention rafts of society on their own terms. This means bypassing the system.
“Some rules can be bent, others broken.”
You establish your authority by building in public and taking others along for the journey. This means shedding the Instagramification of the world, with filters and fake lifestyles.
There are paths you haven’t even considered that others are making millions with.
Kevin Espiritu aka Plant Daddy cleared $45 million from gardening content.
Neighborhood bakery newsletters nurturing customers
Local carpenter video tutorials fostering woodworking culture
Subscription transcendental journey maps for psychonauts
One-on-one coaching unlocking radical human potential
Solitary operations, yes. But deeply embedded into the lives and needs of your most activate audience.
As the old world institutions crumble under the weight of excessive overhead and process, the decentralized digital creators become society's new value.
The question is will you be part of it?
TL:DR
Break free from the antiquated time for money industrial machine by becoming a solopreneur in the digital renaissance.
Leverage assets like one reel, email list, and digital offer to become a nimble manufacturer and distributor of value.
Execute radical ideas based on your unique perspective and experiences, not by following conventional platforms or mediums.
Repatriate your work by embedding it directly into the lives of your audience, unshackled from corporate overhead.
As centralized institutions crumble, decentralized digital creators become society's new value - be a pioneer.
The internet game is not zero-sum. You can win at this with unlimited upside. This game is about the freedom to do what you want, when you want and with who you want.
P.S. Want to work with me directly? Set up a call.
P.P.S. For those interested, this is the software stack I use:
(These are affiliate links, so if you sign up, I'll get a small referral commission.)
Beehiiv for my newsletter: I recommend this for anyone looking to seriously build a one person business to seven figures. This tool has everything you need to grow and monetize your audience for under $100/month.
Tweethunter to dominate on Twitter/X: This has all the bells and whistles from scheduling Tweets, AI writer, Retweets, engagement and more.
Notion is a non-negotiable. This is your app to organize, document, and execute your business.
Make.com is your go to automation tool. Make your life easier by adopting this tool from the start. Literally cut hours of work per day.
Reply