tumblr isn’t a social media it’s a farmers market and the people you follow are the vendors and your mutuals are regulars and sometimes a person I buy pumpkins from will start selling realistic models of sailboats and damn i’m not gonna buy any but I will come by and compliment you on your sailboats
this is how tiny business empires work as well, and oh my moon that’s why tumblr has long been my favorite social platform
(atty) “This is Josh. I’ve hired him to do a deep dive in digital security, he’s also my financial advisor in extremely specific circumstances…”
(atty, continues) “I repeat, extremely specific, because his financial models do not work for things that make sense. For things that do not make sense, when put over a 3-year window, it works out 100x. For non-Josh problems, either in digital security or finances, I go to a non-Josh. You can’t ask Josh things external to these. They will not work. You’ll lose all your money.
(atty finishes) “While I have never needed the services, he can also tear apart old VW cars to figure out what is wrong and build record players from scratch. His knowledge of obscure dinosaurs is gargantuan.”
(client asks) “How did you meet Josh? What are his credentials?”
(atty responds) “Oh, I met him 20 or 25 years ago, he was selling 1-inch pins and advertised for a week on a web comic that was only around a few months. We’ve been working together ever since. He has no credentials, he didn’t go to college and has been self employed since he was a teenager – his only non-self employment experience was a few entry level jobs at hotels in admin capacities for a handful of months.”
(This is a 100% true story with 0% embellishment)