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Interesting I'll check that out

Which traditional field? I'm curious, care to elaborate?

I don't think it's strange. Human nature is wired to avoid risk taking (body wants to stay alive, not take risks) and some people are more wired for risk than others. More fear requires more courage, so congrats on the first step

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I still remember the aftermath of the 1st day of letting everyone go..... i was sitting alone in the office and going "what the f have i done", i sold all the items / furnitures and prepare to move to a newer place. Insane heavy loans breathing down my neck, and I just decided I had enough of a toxic environment, and decided to make a change and take responsibility for my mistakes.

Damn that took guts! Congrats glad it worked out well for you

You're inviting a whole "butterfly effect / stream of time" debate that for argument's sake your actions don't ripple the fabric of time and change the future.

I would not try to create a new software company and compete against the giants as that even with the "biff from B2TF" god-knowledge would not save you from the day to day grind of having to run a company which requires massive time $ and energy commitment.

I would exploit the hell out of early technologies at their peak profit-value ratio. Reverse engineer the Gary Vee school of thought on "attention economy" and put $ into the platforms early when the value/eyeballs ratio is good and then transition to every platform.

Outside of exploiting knowledge of the future it would make sense to take that money and invest in the growing trends. If I could earn enough money I would try to do venture capital angel funds for ideas that were profitable longterm.

That said I fear that all of my decisions would alter the fabric of spacetime and start ww3. So in reality I would dump it all into stock and live quietly in the woods.

Well there's something to be said for quality of reach vs. quantity of reach. Maybe collective attention span can't even tolerate a short newsletter. I bet you reach different types of audiences, neither approach is right or wrong.

Seems more people listen to audio books than read. Reading for me is active engagement, vs. audio is default passive. I seem to have better memory recall of what's read because it forms images in my mind, vs. listening which is somebody else's voice in your head. I remember a lot of what I've heard as well (assuming I'm actually paying attention, if not it's like 0% retention unlike reading there's always some even if I'm skimming.)

Have you considered doing a podcast of your newsletter? You wouldn't even have to voice it if you used some of the nicer text to speech platforms like elevenlabs.