Corbett Barr & The State of the Creator Economy

Travel Light with Chase Reeves

On this week's show Chase (https://chasereeves.co) and Corbett Barr (https://corbettbarr.com) discuss media, independent digital business, and the state of the creator economy. (Table of contents below)

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SONG:

• Petey: spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/4TeKBLCqmYXzvcgYX4t4YA?si=ESNZi94jT-iPoYVg0TrvZw), yt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuePPW8eHxI), insta (https://www.instagram.com/petey_usa/),

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CONTENTS:

• 3:00 Why are people easy to trick?
• 3:46 Creators rule the world. (https://corbettbarr.com/creators-rule-the-world/)
• 5:54 Successful digital media
• Media example: The Social Dilemma (https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/). Jaron Lanier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier) is the name we were looking for.
• 13:00 Expertise is still the product.
• 17:19 Proving (without a gatekeeper) that you're relevant.
• 18:03 The 3 public and digital elements you can actually own.
• 20:00 Developing consistent creative rhythms.
• 25:18 The Viability Ratio
• 28:00 How resonance works
• Australian multimeter youtuber guy (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DjFE7Xf11URZqWBigcVOQ) Corbett mentions
• 33:00 Books are still the model
• 37:00 Rhythms of accomplishing things
• 44:07 "I have an opinion" as platform prerequisite
• 49:00 Artist fires and the John Baldessari documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU7V4GyEuXA&list=PLMm-PdcMVhsy8Nb64SDAYe8mJo-1gBUb4) you need to watch.
• 53:47 Why some of you are waiting too long to get started (and some aren't waiting long enough)...
• 58:00 Making your outside — how you look on the internet — look like your inside
• 59:20 Organizing, conscientiousness and this Rectix SNL commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2FkgBIL-kI)
• 1:01:00 Not just getting it working, but KEEPING it working
• 1:03:23 Francis Bacon on Arena (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyepHcAe8lM)
• 1:06:00 Bringing an underlying human message vs. imitating other successes on a platform
• 1:08:00 Speaking with your own voice
• 1:11:00 Corbett cleaned his digital house... here's how it went
• 1:22:00 What we built together at Fizzle.co
• 1:27:00 What we got right: understanding the customer
• 1:29:00 Corbett's productivity tools mentioned:
  • Bear (notes), Trello (projects) and Front (email)
  • RoamResearch
• 1:41:00 Jobs to be done primer (https://justinjackson.ca/what-is-jobs-to-be-done)
• 1:42:00 Corbett's Jura espresso machine (https://amzn.to/3nTKa9e)

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