Building a business is a long term investment.

I've been thinking a lot about friction lately. Especially as I'm working from home and have more distractions than ever before.

Friction is simply a tool in our toolbox. Are you using it to your advantage?

⏫ We should increase friction in the things we want to stop doing. (example: move distracting apps to a distant page and folder on your phone).

⏬ We should decrease friction for the things we want to do more (example: I've started putting a book next to my bed so I read more often).

These ideas are not my own :) Thanks to Nir Eyal and his book, Indistractible, for helping me think about this.

𝟴𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬+ 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀!!!
We just crossed the threshold! There are now over 800,000 podcasts. Wow!

A few more statistics:
- More than 27.6 million episodes available (this counts only what's in the feeds, not what has ever been released)
- More than 95,000 podcasts have been added in the last 90 days
- More than 24,000 podcasts have been removed in the last 90 days
- Most podcasts with 9 or fewer episodes haven't published in the last 90 days, whereas the majority with 10 or more have.

Data courtesy of the My Podcast Reviews service, by Daniel J. Lewis.

🤔 Why is content so valuable? 🧐

Let me tell you! 👇🏻

People want to do business with other people. NOT with some corporate entity. Even large corporations often have personalities attached to them. Think Elon Musk and Tesla or John Legere and T-Mobile.

We want to do business with people we KNOW, LIKE, and TRUST.

Content is the way people get to know, like, and trust your business.

Create value, and people will provide value back to you.

If you need help with this, don't hesitate to let me know.

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