Woody Allen once said that 90% of success is just showing up.<\/p>\n
Either that’s cute bullshit, or I really am the Worst at the other 10%. <\/p>\n
I’ve sure as hell been showing.<\/p>\n
Success by any widely shared metric has consistently eluded me.<\/p>\n
I think I’m starting to understand why.<\/p>\n
First off I’m not showing off anything that People generally want to see or hear. Of late, I could try to blame my increased use of AI for this–half the world hates it, fears it instinctively, avoids anything that smells like it for pre-rational reasons. But that’s not good science. They didn’t want to hear or see before that, either. <\/p>\n
Secondly, I hate marketing, and to compound the problem, these days marketing means pounding it hard at Facebook and the rest of the social media ecosphere, which I also hate, and thus don’t use.<\/p>\n
I think phone-based culture has something to do with it too, but I’m not sure what. <\/p>\n
The decreasing importance of the written word …<\/p>\n
Anyway.<\/p>\n
I’m completing unwilling to spend my time making myself more palatable. <\/p>\n
Or available! I don’t want to move to the big city and do what I do in some perfect grungy club on the Lower East Side like Patty Smith or the Talking Heads. I really loved piping what I did through a 50,000 watt station in the middle of the night 40 years ago. But not enough to move back to a Portland, in order to have that kind of opportunity again. <\/p>\n
There are no clubs, or metaphorical equivalents of clubs, in the places I prefer to live. I don’t even go to church.<\/p>\n
But to that point, I think this is part of what I hope to gain from making an effort at building Community. <\/p>\n
A potential audience. <\/p>\n
Building my own club, or radio station adjacency, as it were. <\/p>\n
Giving more, to a kind of marketing that isn’t just for the sake of marketing. <\/p>\n
Being a little more available, yeah?<\/p>\n
Still just all chow for cogitation. <\/p>\n
So far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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