writer's (un)block

“Releasing art into the world becomes easier when we remember that each piece can never be a total reflection of us, only a reflection of who we are in this moment. If we wait, it’s no longer today’s reflection. In a year, we may be guided to create a piece that looks nothing like it. There is a timeliness to the work. The passing of seasons could

inputs should feel personally obsessive, not intellectually impressive.

The allure of a good book: how is it possible that you came up with that sentence in your mind.

How to Master Writing - David Perell interview with Morgan Housel

Words are the tools we use to bring our ideas to life. Great strategies are useless if we can’t express and sell them to creatives and clients with pithy, evocative words that crackle with energy. In our experience, the best planners always choose ‘the best words in the best order’.

The most important advantage of writing is that it helps us to confront ourselves when we do not understand something as well as we would like to believe.

Paragraphs are almost as important for how they look as for what they say; they are maps of intent.

write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out.