How To Create Your Own Idea Farm
“The idea farm takes a handful of scattered, inconsistent thoughts, and from those thoughts grow beautiful, fully-formed blog post ideas.”
“The idea farm takes a handful of scattered, inconsistent thoughts, and from those thoughts grow beautiful, fully-formed blog post ideas.”
“A writer is someone who says ‘this is not good enough’ repeatedly. A good writer is someone who thinks that and rewrites instead of giving up.”
“Everyone who has a backstory you admire has absolutely crafted it.”
“You don’t have to make money right away. There are plenty of ways to create valuable personal assets without monetizing right away, from writing a newsletter t...
“Most likely you’ll observe that you’re much better at applying one of these modes than the other.”
“Every blog post you publish is a stock you’ve added to your portfolio and it only cost you the time it took to write it.”
“In theory a blank page is the most ideal circumstance, and in practice it is paralyzing.”
“If someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try.”
“There are infinite paths and ways you can succeed — the key is to not get paralyzed by that.”
“Here’s why this has been somewhat revelatory for me: stories don’t come to me fully formed, and they certainly don’t come to me in a convenient order.”