{"id":3595,"date":"2013-02-27T21:42:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T02:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airtight.co\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2013-02-27T21:42:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T02:42:05","slug":"the-deeper-i-dig-the-fewer-i-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/the-deeper-i-dig-the-fewer-i-find\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deeper I Dig, the Fewer I Find!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Monster<\/a><\/p>\n

This was my first thought when I saw the number of followers of mine start to dwindle.\u00a0 The Lizard Brain, as I have learned form Seth Godin, was quite happy about this.\u00a0 The lizard was thinking, of course, nobody wants to read what you write, you are a mechanical guy. Get over it. Who cares?<\/p>\n

Once I let him, he is a he by the way and a nasty little booger at that, vent for a while and allowed him to be somewhat thrilled with my agony of loosing less than 2% of my tribe, I looked at the situation differently.<\/p>\n

It became really simple for me to understand. The deeper I dig into what fascinates me, regardless if it is reading on a specific topic, writing about things I know or just plain interacting with folks –\u00a0I realized that a few people in the tribe didn’t want to go that deep or invest (or waste) their time on topics of my interest.<\/p>\n

Simple right?\u00a0 Or so I thought.\u00a0 I have decided that what I am interested in may be compelling to some and not so much to others, I am now comfortable with this.\u00a0 So as we gain followers, albeit Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., some will grow to like your stuff, some won’t, and some will just hate to hate.<\/p>\n

The important things for me are continuing to educate myself, take others who want to go for the ride along with me, and be happy with that.\u00a0 I live my days and nights with this concept, for better or for worse.<\/p>\n

The bottom line, literally is: The more concentrated your tribe becomes, by people weeding themselves out, those who only want a casual encounter or to play the Social Media Game, you are left with a higher\u00a0percentage of quality people who are with you for the right reasons.\u00a0 With\u00a0that reason(s) being, they enjoy what it is you produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was my first thought when I saw the number of followers of mine start to dwindle.\u00a0 The Lizard Brain, as I have learned form Seth Godin, was quite happy about this.\u00a0 The lizard was thinking, of course, nobody wants to read what you write, you are a mechanical guy. Get over it. Who cares? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}