inspiration to write

With a steady writing and creation habit, it narrows my attention to things that I’ve written about, am curious about or want to learn more about. By taking notes on these things, it enables me to learn things in a way I never did before.

As we move to a new future where people communicate digitally, writing is going to be more important than ever. The effects of charisma, height, looks and size will not hold the same sway and more attention will be paid to quality of ideas.

Benefit #1: See the flaws in your own thinking and start to see the nuance (or lack thereof) in other’s point of views

It’s one thing to espouse a belief in a discussion with friends over a beer and another thing entirely to try to turn that into a coherent essay. As I started writing, I started to see how I was able to develop much better ideas... See more

Anyone who creates a podcast, writes on the internet or shares other creations online over a long enough time, eventually figures out the secret:

The benefit of a creative journey is the path itself. If you can find a creative journey you want to be on, then the opportunities that emerge will also be the ones you want to work on too.

What’s interesting is not ideas per se, but the way you combine them in your own unique way. What’s interesting is intertextuality, i.e. the shaping of a text’s meaning by another text, the relation of texts with other texts, how they form a web of influence and connections: allusions, quotations, pastiche, influence, plagiarism... Writing is like... See more