How do I begin with the end in mind?
Right now I run an engineering blog with a subscriber list of about 900 and I get 5-10 new subscribers a day. I have a book on Kindle and Gumroad and I'm developing an app. I try to publish 1-3 blog posts a week. That's where I am.
Where I want to be is this. I really like engineering. I like designing and building all sorts of things from lamps to motorcycles. The end I want to be at is one where I can just hang out and build stuff all day. So my goal with the blog would be to provide me a passive income that can afford me that.
I have no idea how to connect the two. I have found through this blog that I honestly don't like writing that much so the idea of blogging for a few years to gain momentum is not very appealing to me.
I have started to interview founders of tech startups and that has been really interesting. I turn our interviews into articles which have done relatively well. So one idea I have is to start a podcast where I interview these companies and create other various content from the interviews. Again, I'm not exactly sure how this will work except for hoping that people like it and in turn, I will sell more books/apps/advertising.
I could create online courses/YouTube videos on how to build some of the things I build. This is far more time consuming than blogging/podcasting and I don't know if I have the viewership yet to make it worth it.
It seems that in today's becoming-an-entrepreneur world, the way to succeed is to publish mass amounts of valuable content as often as possible for as long as possible until enough people start to notice. Several of the more popular writers I follow on Medium, for instance, publish 2-3 times a day. As an engineer, I'd prefer to work smart not hard.
So given my viewership and goals, what would be some good steps I could take right now to move towards them?
Thanks!
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TrickyDick -
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Jeffsg605 -
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