Content

“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

“When you’re trying to be original, you sound like everyone else trying to be original.” - Dan Klein

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

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

"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

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

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

100 Simple Truths

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

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 becom... 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.