Most people don’t fail online because they lack ideas.
They fail because they try to build everything at once.
Courses. Consulting. Newsletters. Communities. AI tools. Funnels. Platforms.
Each one sounds promising. Each one feels urgent.
The result isn’t progress. It’s mental noise.
If you’re new here, I want to give you a simpler way to think about making money online, one that doesn’t require guessing, chasing trends, or becoming someone you’re not.
Income is a design problem
The internet is full of monetization advice, but most of it skips the most important step: deciding how you want income to work in your life.
Instead, people jump straight to:
“What should I build?”
“What’s working right now?”
“What platform should I use?”
Those are the wrong first questions.
The better question is: What constraints am I building inside of?
Time.
Energy.
Risk tolerance.
Need for cash now vs later.
Desire for interaction vs autonomy.
Once you get clear on constraints, the options narrow themselves.
Assets vs Attention
A core belief that drives everything I write here:
Attention is fragile.
Digital Assets are durable.
Attention resets every day.
Digital Assets compound.
Posting more can grow attention.
Building assets creates leverage.
Start and Grow is not about maximizing visibility.
It’s about minimizing wasted effort.
What this newsletter will help you do
This isn’t a step-by-step blueprint.
It’s a thinking framework.
Start and Grow exists to help you:
See monetization options more clearly
Evaluate trade-offs honestly
Build things that don’t collapse when motivation dips
Turn experience into something that pays you back
You don’t need to decide everything now.
You don’t need to move fast.
You just need a way to stop guessing.
Next, i’ll talk about something most smart people struggle with, recognizing the value of what they already know.
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