But you’re right that it’s difficult to find real value in some other areas. You have to “poke around” forums, etc like you said. I think there will be some better solutions for that coming out next year which I’ll certainly post about.

I found your blog from a comment you made on Tim Ferriss’s blog…I think.

Sorry for commenting so much, but you seem to have an uncannily clear perspective on a lot of things I’ve muddled over in the past.

Here’s another one I’d like to know your views on:

Finding Value. You spoke of creating value, but how do we FIND value? And conversely, helping others FIND your value? People are so good at search engine optimization these days, I can’t just Google “really good blog about becoming financially free” and actually get something that fits that description.

What you DO get is 733,000 results.

Google is great when you know exactly what you’re looking for.

But when you’re looking for “value”, you can’t just google “value”.

Do you have a technique you use to find “value” blogs and products? So far, I’ve used the “poke around” method.

I do have one theory that if a blogger recommends a hero blogger, and then THAT blogger recommends another hero blogger, you’ve found a value blog. I’ll call it the “3-degrees to value” theory.

Seth Godin was on to something with his “lens” theory, but I’ve yet to see “value” from it.

People still see the web as a lazy eldorado with little required skills to make bug money… it is not… :-D