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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.

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

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.”

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.

Curate to create, there’s no other way

There’s no creation without inspiration.

Every creator throughout history has morphed his interpretation of the world through their chosen medium. Whether that’s painting, writing, music or photography is irrelevant.

First and foremost, creators are curators .

They take it all in and reinterpret it in their own ... See more

“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.”

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

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