A surprisingly doable and underrated strategy when blogging is to take an important topic and then just write the best, most comprehensive thing ever written about it.

So few of the most important topics do not have a canonical post, but when a canonical post exist, they get large amounts of traffic for many years.

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Quality, not quantity, should be the guiding principle in our creative work. There should be a minimum bar of craftsmanship for what we put out into the world. One that gives us a sense of pride.

We should measure success by the quality of our work, not by the number of tasks completed.