Too much circulation makes the price go down: the more you are seen and heard from, the more common you appear. If you are already established in a group, temporary withdrawal from it will make you more talked about, even more admired. You must learn when to leave. Create value through scarcity.
The L16 doctrine in modern operating practice: comment rarely, ship often, publish infrequently. Spoken/written cadence matches Naval's media form of leverage: each appearance is more valuable because they are infrequent. The mis-application is the manufactured-scarcity influencer; the right application is the operator who refuses to dilute their signal.
Scarcity is signal. Naval's specific-knowledge coinage: NOT scarcity = replaceable. The lesson inverts when scarcity is artificial — but genuine scarcity (a real cadence of silence) compounds respect.
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