5 Learnings From Building Personal Monopolies on Twitter

and how you can replicate these on any platform*

David Perell and Jack Butcher are 2 people you’ll find on almost everyone’s Twitter following.

David is a full-time writer who delivers excellent essays on business, writing, and learning. He’s a master at his game, having done it for over 7 years now.

Jack has touched 100k/month last year, with 99% profit margins. He has an interesting story. He was a designer looking for a passionate career where his creativity would be rewarded. He approached Eric Jorgenson, who was writing the Navalmanack — a book on Naval Ravikant.

He applied his designing skills in the book, which was an instant hit. He’s also the founder of Visualize value, where he creates art out of quotes.

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Alright, let’s jump into the learnings.

As Peter Thiel says, “Competition is for losers”.

You cannot get out of the circle of competitiveness once you’re in it; it's just too consuming. Without an end. Everyone, including me, we are stuck in the competitive phase till a point in our career where we have to choose one of the two:

1. Take a path which no one has taken to do something extraordinary