Building Answers: The Synthesis of Art and Entrepreneurship
19|02|2025 | Destiny (Host)
Naval Ravikant once said, "To build a product, make something people want. To create art, make something you want. The best do both."
This insight shows the strong bond between art and entrepreneurship.
Building what you're passionate about, taking professional pride in operational excellence, and distributing it with those who share your enthusiasm should be the ultimate goal rather than engaging with some sort of robotic role that'll be replaced by artificial intelligence and automation.
In my understanding, humans aren't designed for repetitive and boring tasks. Humans love challenges.
Humans are born to build tools, not being tools themselves; to innovate and evolve alongside the tools they've built.
The mind itself loves exploration, or it begins to deteriorate. That's why games and puzzles are mental diets and a gymnasium.
My journey exemplifies this fusion.
I was adamant about opening up myself to the world. Despite the challenges in getting freelance gigs, I remained open-minded and thus created a group to simplify the process, solve a problem for myself, and now sell the solution as a built-in traffic source that's being funnelled to my other built-up digital ecosystems.
It's more or less recycling a traffic source. It never gets sour. Otherwise, I would have personally been a slave to the algorithm or the ad agencies.
Nope, that can never be Destiny. I want to retain some control rather than relinquish it.
Ads are good, doubtlessly, but I would want to run one when I want to. Not when I've built a digital mausoleum that may prompt me to keep buying an eyeball or renting one and on steroids. Ads Fee isn't a child's play.
This initiative aided me and linked me up with others who share similar challenges or a tribe of sufferers, if that's even a word. Maybe I'll crosscheck afterwards. But you get what I mean.
The experience itself underscored a universal truth: personal challenges often reflect broader societal needs.
By addressing your problems and sharing the solutions, you can assist countless others.
And human problems are evergreen problems and homogenous—emotional, financial, physical, and beauty, just to name a few.
Embracing creativity and contributing to a cause greater than oneself is essential for the progress and evolution of society at large.
What shall it profit me if I don't build what I want to see in the world?
Through Community Building 101, I embarked on creating a comprehensive global hub—a platform offering real-time weather updates, vital handy digital tools, currency conversions, world news, and more.
And yes, I built this space for myself, but I realised it could help others with similar interests, and then it was channelled to my already built-in traffic source.
This solution or tool has the potential to address global needs, regardless of your context. If I should display the analytics of this, I mean readers of this letter, people in China, Germany, Korea, etc., are reading my work and gaining a mindf*cked thought on it.
Why? Because there is a tool that aids in the letter-language translation mechanisms (Google Translate).
You see. That's what we're talking about here. Sometimes the tools are just there, but the issue is bringing them together to form a coherent whole.
There's nothing virtually new under the sun.
Jeff Bezos's interview on the utilisation of the postal office keeps popping out of my head whenever I get to points like this: When he was asked about his idea of selling books online in his early days.
He said the postal office was already in place; all he did was maximise what was already built up.
As per Dwellpro, I did not build 99.9% of the tools; all I did was help others access the tools at their fingertips by categorising them categorically in an easy-to-use and, yes, free-of-charge manner.
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