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Nathan Barry (Founder of Convertkit)14 December 2023

How Writing Online Will Make You A Millionaire - Nathan Barry (Founder of Convertkit)

7Frameworks
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Frameworks in this episode

Insights & moments

The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.

Myth Buster· 1

Myth Buster24:00

Entrepreneurship is not the only route to a good life

“I think we are both equally happy in life uh and we just to have very different uh different approaches”

Nathan Barry · 24:00

“the goal is happiness contentment and meaning the goal is not have a100 million business”

Ali Abdaal · 25:30

Hot Take· 1

Hot Take1:45:30

Creators do not owe an audience permanent access

“you don't owe this to anyone”

Nathan Barry · 1:45:30

“do it for as long as it serves you in that way”

Nathan Barry · 1:46:00

Explainer· 2

Explainer03:00

Making money is a trainable bundle of skills

“when I understood that that making money was a skill that you get better at with practice”

Nathan Barry · 03:30

“these are all skills that are learned”

Nathan Barry · 05:00
Explainer1:53:00

Books and video create different kinds of fame

“most people who have read Atomic habits probably don't know what he looks like”

Nathan Barry · 1:53:00

“it's the difference between YouTube where your bases on everything and you have that level of Fame and the book where you're like oh I…”

Nathan Barry · 1:55:00

Story· 3

Story16:30

Turning a day job into a coding apprenticeship

“I decided that I was going to be the best employee on that team and I was going to do it in 3 hours a…”

Nathan Barry · 16:30

“how can I do what's expected of me but take it much further in a way that's going to benefit me long term”

Nathan Barry · 24:30
Story42:00

Three iOS apps produced $3,000 a month

“I always like to make something specific”

Nathan Barry · 44:30

“when I quit my job uh to do freelance iOS design I had I was making about $3,000 a month on the App Store from…”

Nathan Barry · 45:30
Story47:00

A $12,000 ebook launch changed Nathan’s career

“on launch day I had 798 people uh on the wait list and uh I ended up selling $12,000 worth of the book in the…”

Nathan Barry · 50:00

“but it was email to drive all of that”

Nathan Barry · 51:00

Takeaway· 3

Takeaway18:00

Fixed work can hide inside a fixed-time schedule

“you just have a set amount of work to get done it doesn't have to take an hour or five hours”

Nathan Barry · 19:00

“you set the pace right do you want this to take multiple years sometimes it should and sometimes it's the best for you or do…”

Nathan Barry · 22:00
Takeaway27:00

Learned skills remain lifetime assets

“once you're a designer you're a designer for Life”

Nathan Barry · 29:00

“when someone presents me with the opportunity learn a new skill then I'm like oh thank you like like this is amazing what a gift”

Nathan Barry · 29:00
Takeaway1:43:00

A personal blog can be an archive for its author

“but those are written for me”

Nathan Barry · 1:43:30

“I'm just creating content for me and trying to have that archive I just also put it out in the internet because I guess I'm…”

Nathan Barry · 1:44:00