(Update: Version 5 of the TNS-inspired Memelord E$$AY Generator is here. An E$$AY is an essay + a Slyk startup. E$$AY.GPT coming soon)
I’ve written many essays. It’s always been torture.
For years I was under contract to publish one per month in glossy magazines. I often missed deadlines. Editors hated me.
No more!
Faced with writing four essays for the TNS Creators Cohort #3, I had an epiphany about how to make essay writing a lot faster, easier, and more impactful.
I wrote this essay and four other TNS Creator Cohort #3 Essays— The Expat State, Home of Our Own, State of Wonder, and Fighting for Family Formation, with the tool described herein.
It saved me so much brain burn: massive leverage for memelords.
Essays Spread Memes
My insight about easy breezy essay writing comes from building startups.
Essays argue from personal experience for the validity and value of a meme, i.e. an idea or expression of knowledge, something true.
For example, this essay advocates for a gain of function (upside, cashflow, CTAs) mutation of the essay form invented by Michel de Montaigne and expertly practiced by startup genius Paul Graham, and introduces the E$$AY as a1 00X better meme delivery mechanism. It productizes the E$$AY’s meme in the form of a digital download and services sold by a a startup society in which anyone can earn upside: TNS Memelord Community.
The goal of every essay: convert readers to spreaders.
If it’s worth your time to write about, it should be worth your readers’ effort to spread, i.e. viral veracity, veracious virulence.
Hypergrowth is the grail for any essay writer, same as startups.
What makes a meme worth sharing?
Tweak that Rumi quote— is it true, helpful, valuable?
That’s your viral checklist.
Unique experience and expertise connects the meme benefit to a community you know and care about.
It’s the sugar that helps the meme medicine go down.
Author POV tips logic into truth.
Experience shifts curiosity to care.
Expertise transforms engagement to incentive.
AI and fintech bring speed, scale, upside, and leverage.
Et Voila!
Big Win for Memelords & Freedom
This tool makes essay writing as easy as taking a survey.
It smashes writer’s block.
My fellow TNS creators will spread more and better TNS memes.
Startup Society Founders will crank out moral innovation as fast as Tik Tok videos.
It’s a harpoon machine gun to rain holy war down on the leviathan of State.
It’s lubrication for the Network State transition, jujitsu for the flippening.
Individual souls will benefit most. Those with Founder Energy now have a turnkey solution to expressing, incentivizing, and monetizing their creative vision. One commandment, one coin, earn-gated collaboration, productized purpose, cashflow from commerce, upside sharing with community.
Imagine the thousands of Startup Societies and Network Unions it will generate!
A fractal explosion of options and opportunities.
That’s the essence of startups.
Founder Energy Dynamos.
World Frame to Word Frame
This tool ends the agony of essay writing by dialing in the meme payload, triangulating with truth, helpfulness, and value, guided by experience with a community the meme helps, the problem it solves, and the solution it productizes.
No more hard-mode vivisection of your memes as you try to fit your disorganized ideas to a 5-D Bed of Procrustes. The Essay Generator uses this weighted word-frame instead.
Big innovation over other essay-writing frameworks is the section on the Upside of Spreading the Essay and its Meme (upside = valuable = viral) and Calls to Action (convert reader to spreader).
Title: [Meme] (.5%)
Sub-title: [Solution] (.5%)
¶ 1. [Meme] Intro: true, helpful, and valuable. (15%)
¶ 2. [Insight] about the [Meme] based on [Experience] (20%)
¶ 3. [Community] most benefit from [Meme] based on [Experience] (15%)
¶ 4. [Problem] of [Community] based on [Experience] (20%)
¶ 5. [Solution] for [Community] based on [Experience](15%)
¶ 6. [Product] (5%)
¶ 6. [Upside] (5%)
¶ 7. [CTA] (4%)
Essay Generator Workflow
The tool leverages AI to generate text and illustrations based on answers to questions about [Meme], [Insight], [Experience], [Community], [Problem], [Solution], [Product], [Upside], [CTA].
It turns inputs into argument, persuasive anecdotes, relevant references, startup society formation, upside explication, and meme-spreading guidance.
It maximizes meme virulence with closed-loop incentives; it stamps out E$$AYs (essay + startup society) at the speed of e-shops.
Version 1.0 of the agony-ending solution:
A 14-question Typeform to populate weighted word-frame, for illustration prompts, to configure a Slyk-based Startup Society, and to define upside parameters.
Chat GPT4 for hanging proportional text meat on the essay skeleton.
Dalle-2 for illustrations.
Slyk for startup community, ecomm, payments, closed-loop incentives, upside-sharing, payments, and compliant crowdfunding.
This tool produces an E$$AY draft that requires minimal copy, illustration, and incentive tweaking. This E$$AY took 12 hours of post-typeform tweaking. The Expat State required 6 hours of fiddling. Land of Our Own dropped to 5 hours. State of Wonder 4.5 hours. Fighting for Family Formation 4 hours. Milo Protocol 2 hours.
Gain-of-Function
Max-out meme dissemination by making it easy for spreaders to share in the upside of your essay and it’s meme solution, i.e. productize it.
Your meme is valuable and will become more valuable over time if you apply the startup feedback loop for iteration, force multiplication, and network effects.
Convert your meme into a Startup Society and share the upside to incentivize super-spreaders:
Value Your Founder Energy.
Reward Spreaders with Upside.
Earn-Gate Collaboration.
Call for Cofounders.
Set Tasks & Rewards.
Call for Collaborators
For many years I’ve been a hard-mode essay-writing mega-masochist.
I dreaded deadlines and suffered like a fool.
No more!
I’ve productized the essay-writing process.
It’s a startup now, friends!
Try it here. Share it with your fellow memelords.
Join the Slyk Memelord Startup Community.
Collaborate and earn upside.
Apply to be a Co-founder.
Memelords of the world unite!
Seize this meme of tech-leveraged, money-motivated propagation.
We have nothing to lose but our pain.