Master Plan
My mission is to help creators reach independence. The reason why is because I think life should be about exploring your interests, which should then cover your current costs to live. You shouldn't have to work for somebody else to make ends meet, you should be able to work on your own ideas and live independently.
This stems from the concept Ikigai, which is the alignment of these 4 things:
- what you love
- what you are good at
- what you can get paid to do
- what the world needs
To reach independence in what you love to do is to reach Ikigai. And to reach Ikigai is to have a purpose in life.
I'm planning on starting with Indie Hackers first, because I, myself, am in the pursuit of becoming one. The alignment of creating tools you want in the world and being its first user dramatically improves the tool itself[0].
I have a rough idea of how to get this started, but it still needs ironing out. I will try to post updates on this as frequent as possible. I think documenting is an important part to learning and contributing[1], even if nobody reads it.
[0] Paul Graham, How To Get Startup Ideas
The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realise are worth doing
[1] Nadia Eghbal, The independent researcher
Documenting your findings in public (regardless of outcomes!) is a worthy contribution to society - full stop!
