5/5 Will you keep fighting for pennies in the human attention economy, or start mining dollars in the machine learning economy? https://bsky.app/profile/nickquick.bsky.social/post/3m7x7qwjod727

4/5 Writers who go direct—selling their expertise as training data or implementation systems—stand to earn multiples more.

3/5 Publishers are acting as middlemen in a transaction that no longer requires them.

2/5 Your expertise, distilled into a book, is more valuable as machine training data than human reading material.

7/7 Which model sounds more appealing: earning $5,000 over 2 years from a book, or $50,000 from AI-implementation of the same ideas? https://bsky.app/profile/nickquick.bsky.social/post/3m7x3cdwk7k2c

6/7 The real scarcity is in successful outcomes, not in content access.

5/7 Publishers still believe scarcity has value.

The internet killed that notion years ago.

4/7 Information alone is now nearly worthless. Implementation is everything.

3/7 AI-enhanced publishing:

- Convert expertise to prompts
- Charge subscription access
- Scale without additional labor
- Monetize implementation, not information

2/7 Traditional non-fiction publishing:

- Write for 1-2 years
- Earn $1-5 per book
- Hope for speaking gigs
- Pray for virality