X paid me $1,553.38 for 2 weeks of tweeting. It wasn't even a particularly viral week. This is your reminder to put your thoughts out there on the internet. The math is simple: • You get paid to clarify your POV • You g... See more

Third, your best work, because it serves others, will have a public-facing component. Some people you share it with will love it and expect you to do more of it. Others will hate it. Some people will be meh about it and want you to take it in a different direction. You’ll be in the center of a storm of other people’s opinions and have to remain abl

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At the top of every creative log are two prompts—“For others” and “For me”—where I articulate the purpose of the writing.138 Filling these in helps me determine the writing’s fate, so I try to be as honest as possible. No answer is off limits. No reason too egoic. “Wanting to better understand my thinking” and “Wanting to better position myself as

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