Content
"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert
applies to every creative project
Tim Denning describes looking at headlines of popular Medium articles, modifying a few words to relate them to his own experience and expertise, and then developing those headlines into full articles.
Thomas Smith • My Advice for Conquering Writer’s Block
Writing is a critical skill — perhaps the most important — of all the skills required to analyze data. The only way to get better at writing is to write, ideally every day.
Rohan Alexander, Telling Stories with Data
“What works is being different. Don’t try to be liked. Find out how you’re different. Then be that. That’s where the power is. That’s what’s new. That’s what’s wanted.” - @davetrott
To quote the always-brilliant Philip Kiely: “First you do X, then you make content about doing X, then you make content about that content… One day you realize you haven’t done X for six months. And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction.”
Shaun Wang • The Meta-Creator Ceiling
“I rarely have good ideas.
To overcome this limitation, I think about one topic (like habits) for an unreasonable amount of time. Then, I revise, revise, revise until only the best stuff remains. It’s slow, but it works.
You can either be a genius or you can be patient.”
To overcome this limitation, I think about one topic (like habits) for an unreasonable amount of time. Then, I revise, revise, revise until only the best stuff remains. It’s slow, but it works.
You can either be a genius or you can be patient.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: On Attracting Luck, Taking Risks, and the Ineffectiveness of Anger | James Clear
I recognize the irony here of describing understanding through words, and you being the person that’s internalizing it as knowledge. But with that said, therein lies the value of writing. Writing is an attempt to share your lived experience with others, which makes you face the blind spots in your own thinking in real-time. When you write, it... See more
moretothat.com • Knowledge Is Not Understanding - More to That
Writing is an attempt to share your lived experience with others, which makes you face the blind spots in your own thinking in real-time…. Whether it’s in the form of a quote or an entire concept, you recognize the gap between your own knowledge and understanding.
"I asked him (Sam Evans) about why he'd stop making content. He'd been pretty prolific at this 40th floor penthouse apartment with a motorcycle in it, overlooking floor to ceiling glass. Maybe it was in New York or some big city like that. And he said, he'd found that the story he was putting out publicly was one that he'd begun to feel the need to
... See moreMost times, the best way to create value is continue to double down on the domain-specific insights you've collected over your entire career.