Tim Denning, Pioneer of the New Individualism
And Denning advice that is working for me at my own scale
My brand is called the Individual vs the Empire. My Last post was titled the War of the Hierarchies, Maslow vs Central inc.
Maslow’s hierarchy is the individual hierarchy of development that begins with securing basic needs and evolves towards self-actualization as a giving member of society as there are no boundaries to the self in the metaphysical sense, or even the scientific sense, both God and quantum nonlocality are described as “everything that is.”
Central inc is the illusionary all-controlling empire.
This brings us to Tim Denning.
How do we get from God and Quantum Theory and the global corporate world order to Tim Denning?
Tim Denning, to my knowledge, is not a corporation. I haven’t actually checked whether he has or hasn’t incorporated himself, but that is immaterial to Denning’s natural world status as an individual person. It is said all corporations are persons, but Tim Denning is an actual person, not a fictional one like Google, Meta, or Microsoft, or those other two hotshots. (sorry for being so exclusionary to all the other great corporate persons)
And in his own way, like a rock star, Tim Denning has become as powerful as his fictional comrades.
For those of you who do not know, Tim Denning is a pioneer among content creators. He is among the first and has become the model for many others, not by accident because Tim Denning is the ultimate “How To” guy. How do you do this? Follow my model. Here is the template.
And if you compare Tim Denning to Maslow, you can see that they are working off one and the same mode of individual well-being. Tim Denning takes us through all of these steps.
And Tim Denning is a likable guy. Ok, sometimes, despite the fact that he tells us that he isn’t telling us to brag that he makes six figures, it does come across as bragging, but that comes across as human, which is Tim Denning’s gift. He comes across as sharing his sense of self with you and me and probably not everybody because Tim Denning is human and we all have those people who just don’t like us. But for the most part, Tim Denning is a likable guy, and trustworthy.
Tim Denning was at the right place at the right time to become a leader in the new individualism. He entered on fresh ground. The seeds hadn’t been planted so he planted some seeds. He had a job, he worked in the financial industry so he knew stuff he could pass on but he wasn’t an IPO. He isn’t traded on the stock market. Tim Denning is just a guy running his own business, which may include investing, but Tim Denning's success is not about investing in stocks, it is about investing in himself and in giving us all permission to invest in ourselves. He is among the pioneers who figured out how to make it as a content provider and to derive an income from providing content as an individual- not as a corporate person.
So why am I thinking about Tim Denning today? I read a blog he wrote about LinkedIn’s new newsletter option and I implemented it. The title of Tim Denning’s article is 66,700 New Subscribers from LinkedIn in 24 Hours.
My first thought was how does Tim Denning do it? He is everywhere. Where does he find the time? As much as I feel overloaded, I decided to try the LinkedIn newsletter, skipping the part about studying what works on LinkedIn because I know what I want to write about and it is focused on economic development, the wealth divide, and grassroots entrepreneurialism. if that doesn’t work on LinkedIn, then LinkedIn isn’t for me.
I started by reposting posts from my Substack Newsletters. I have posted links to my Substack newsletter on LinkedIn in the past but according to Denning “Those who weren’t in the know would paste links to their articles on LinkedIn that took users off the platform. LinkedIn would silently block the links to keep their users on their platform. Makes perfect business sense.”
Much to my disappointment, I did not get thousands of subscribers in 24 hours, but I did get more than usual by my own Sunstack standards.
I was able to establish a Substack Newsletter by using my Andersen Design mailing list. I immediately had hundreds of more readers on Substack than I did with Mail Chimp with the same subscriber list. My readership has been expanding on Substack but the size of my subscriber list has been decreasing, which makes it overall a more valuable subscriber list since the percentage of active readership is increasing but Substack does not help with expanding the subscriber list.
It turns out that LinkedIn is growing the subscriber list at a moderate pace relative to my own scale and objectives, which is the only thing that should matter from the point of view of sanity.
And it is true, now that I am publishing my Substack newsletter as a LinkedIn Newsletter it is being read on LinkedIn whereas before it did not receive any attention on LinkedIn.
And it does not take much time.
So thumbs up to Tim Denning. Thanks, Dude! (Americana for Mate)