I suggest writing emails to your friends. Writing with an audience in mind makes the writing better, and writing to a friend means you won’t get hung up on how you sound. You’ll become closer, too, to whoever you share your thoughts with, and odds are you’ll draw the same thoughtfulness out of them. Your inbox will become less of a place for

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The best-performing Notes address universal struggles: imposter syndrome, procrastination, comparison trap, fear of judgment, work-life balance.

Everyone faces these challenges, not just writers. When you validate these experiences, people feel seen and understood.

They want to chime in and share their experience, too...

The people you will be able to have deep conversations with have, like you, already been surprised by the simple, clear things. They need more to get high. And this “more” will be wildly idiosyncratic. It cannot be summarized in a list of writing rules.

So what do you do?

You ask yourself: What would have made me jump off my chair if I had read it... See more