Here's what the journey ahead looks like: Step 1: Make your first piece of content Step 2: Get in the habit of creating Step 3: Make your first dollar Step 4: Get 10,000 followers Step 5: Make $10,000/month Step 6: Financial freedom A note about habits: Reaching all six steps is possible, but it's a long road ahead. If you're only creating content for views, followers, or money, then you probably won't make it. In the beginning, you won't get those things. So you'll quit. The solution is to fall in love with creating. To create out of intrinsic motivation. Because you enjoy it. And just the process of creating helps you. A note about money: Money is important. But I don't think it's our end goal here. Content is growing exponentially. Our attention is limited. The role of the synthesizer becomes more important every single day. Our end goal is to commit to solving the 'disjointed knowledge problem' full-time. Now that's a meaningful goal. A note about $10,000/month: It is possible to earn much more than this through synthesizing, but this is roughly the point where your happiness stops increasing as you earn more. A note about Financial Freedom: The goal isn't to sit on a beach and drink cocktails. The goal is to use this freedom to make art. To create something beautiful for the other people on earth. At this point significant impact can be made. A note about "Celebrations": This community has exceeded my expectations in terms of energy and aliveness. I didn't quite realise how strongly being synthesizers would resonate with you guys. Thank you, sincerely, for your response. I've added a "celebrations" post category. I think this will add to the energy of the group. Whenever you hit part of the roadmap, make a post! We will keep track of how many people are at each level. Also feel free to post other celebrations not on the roadmap. Final notes: This roadmap is definitely not final. If you see any problems with it, comment below. If you can think of anything you think should be added, comment below.

#Synthesizing Intro I love audiobooks, my favorite ones are self development and biographies of billionaires. The problem I am trying to solve is to find meaning in my life, a reason to wake up.

#Synthesizing Intro Hi! I'm Calin from Iasi, Romania. Pretty good at chess (FM level), math MSc, did a couple of jobs as a Data Scientist and recently(1 year ago) started doing stand-up comedy and life has become a bit more exciting. I love Andrew's videos and his thinking process. Right now I have a couple of skills, but always shifting focus and never satisfied with myself. Happy to meet everyone and collab if possible!

#Synthesizing Intro Hi, I'm Heather from Bristol, UK. A self-development junkie, also a night owl. I love content that gives tips and practical advice on how to live your best life. 'Your best life' can vary from person to person but to me it means a life of freedom, truth, purpose, and happiness. The problem I'm currently working on is trying to live a more balanced life where I can growth and thrive soulfully i.e. anti-hustle culture.

#Synthesizing Intro I love content that is useful and/or analytical. My path of least resistance, unfortunately, have steered me too heavily towards digestible content, and that bothers me because I'd like to be the one creating my own interpretations. I've put below some of the videos and channels I love. I'm currently trying to figure out the optimal way of handling multiple tasks, how that relates to stress in the brain. Richard Haier's Efficiency Hypothesis, that measures of brain efficiency explain intelligence, is also on my radar, and my intuition tells me this might tie up with a lot of other things in the future. Honestly, this is me procrastinating on learning to program. P.S.: fun fact, my profile picture is a painting of Emilio Villari, an itaian physicist, that I got as the highest confidence lookalike in this Google Arts & Culture's selfie feature. I hate having an old picture of me, an I hate updating it xD