Episode Description
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In this episode I speak with Nicholas Cole about the real value of everything you write on the internet. Cole has 15 years of experience as a nonfiction writer and ghostwriter, and he runs the SaaS platform Typeshare. He gives me a simple model with three tiers of content: commodity, personality, and original. He also explains the digital brain, which he calls your personal language model, and he shows how AI repeats your approved language at scale. By the end, you know how to judge the short, medium, and long-term value of a piece before you write it.
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Timestamps
00:00:00 – Intro
00:03:36 – POV is the Moat
00:05:40 – Language As Open Source
00:11:24 – Value Is Relative To The Reader
00:14:26 – Approved Language
00:17:43 – The Value of AI in Writing
00:22:09 – Commodity Ideas
00:24:23 – How To Set Up The System
00:27:58 – Ownership IS Association
00:33:56 – Build your Personal Data Set
00:39:53 – Branded Content vs Founder-Led Content
00:45:17 – What is Original Content?
00:46:35 – Writing Versus Short-Form Video
00:48:58 – Three Types of Hooks
00:49:50 – Timely Content vs Timeless Content
00:53:27 – Voice is 3 dialed settings
00:56:32 – Finding your Voice
01:00:49 – The Company Brain As The Moat
01:07:30 – Closing Thoughts
Key Points
- A point of view creates the moat, because copycats must wait for your next idea.
- Content sits in three tiers: commodity, personality, and original. Each tier adds different leverage.
- Ownership equals association. Volume builds it, and personality details make it strong.
- Your life story is the unmade data set, so AI learns it only from your own writing.
- Every piece sits on a spectrum from timely to timeless, so match your expectations to the type.
- Humans do the thinking and the writing. Robots do the repeating and the remixing.
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