This is a podcast broadcast: 1,000 True Fans - The Technium kk.org website This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim Ferriss’ new book, Tools of Titans . I believe the 1,000 True Fans concept will be useful to anyone making things, or making things happen. If you still want to read the much longer original 2008 essay, you can get it after the end of this version. — KK To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans. Read along: https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/…

This is a podcast broadcast: Article written by Ben Thompson on Stratechery.com dated Oct. 21st, 2019 Learn about the challenges that we face with free expression and a new framing for social networks. "The fact of the matter is that the world is fundamentally changing, just as it did five hundred years ago. At the same time, that change will take time — the printing press was invented in Germany in 1440 and yet German unification did not happen until 1871 — and will be guided by choices we make along the way. The sooner we recognize that transformation is coming, the more readily we can reject authoritarian attempts to hold onto the world as it was, and create the world we want to see." https://stratechery.com/2019/the-internet-and-the-third-estate/…

Lee James is a coach at Discovery Canyon in Colorado Springs. He was invited to speak at Fairview High School's Football Mini Camp by Head Coach Tom McCartney. Mr. James talks about overcoming adversity in life and in football. If you have any suggestions for interviews and topics for my new podcast... please contact me at: coachball@gilpinfootball.com…