Content

If you have time to consume, you have time to create.

100 Simple Truths

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

For a long time, Donaldson admits in a number of podcast appearances, he was afraid of putting anything complex in his videos — what if a viewer didn’t get it and stopped watching? Donaldson might very well be an advertiser’s absolute dream, the logical endpoint of an internet that’s been flattened into a samey, straightforward sludge of optimized... See more

Patricia Hernandez • The End of the MrBeast Era

Most times, the best way to create value is continue to double down on the domain-specific insights you've collected over your entire career.

Nikita Bier • Tweet

"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert applies to every creative project

“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

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

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.”

100 Simple Truths

Thomas Smith • My Advice for Conquering Writer’s Block

Patricia Hernandez • The End of the MrBeast Era

Nikita Bier • Tweet

Shaun Wang • The Meta-Creator Ceiling