Learn This Skill If You Want To Thrive In The Next 10 Years
Dan Koe · 2022
"Writing is the foundational skill of the internet economy — not because it's more valuable in isolation, but because every other medium of online distribution, tweets, threads, video scripts, ads, newsletters, is, underneath, a written artifact first."
Koe's argument for writing as the highest-leverage skill to learn isn't aesthetic, it's structural: he breaks down nearly every format of online content — tweets, threads, newsletters, YouTube scripts, Instagram captions, cold emails, ads — and shows each one is written before it's anything else, meaning a single writing skill transfers across every platform rather than locking you into platform-specific technical skills that can be disrupted by an algorithm change.
Read more about the topic
The $1 Million Dollar Skill Stack (Learn In This Order)
"Rather than chasing single 'marketable skills' — web design, ads, funnels — sustainable income comes from stacking three layers in sequence: a valuable message, a medium to distribute it, and results-oriented technical skills, because each layer is close to worthless without the others."