Writing

I’ll have to donate $50 to the Trump Campaign for every day I don’t publish content in November 2020.

I used to wonder how top bloggers published articles so consistently. I suspected they had a secret process that I wasn’t privy too. How do they generate content ideas? What were they doing with their writing that I wasn’t doing? Then I visited Thailand for the first time, and noticed signs with that said “SAME SAME, …

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Putting words on a page is hard. Blogging is even harder. Creating a self-hosted blog requires an annoying number of moving pieces: Buying web hosting. Choosing a domain name. Configuring WordPress themes & plugins. Figuring out SEO. Choosing images. Oh yeah, and you have to write too. But what if you don’t have to start …

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The biggest initial hurdle to blogging is assuming you have to always write big, meaty essays. That’s paralyzing. The longer the article, or the bigger the perceived  “thing” you’re going the write, the more prone you’ll be to perfectionism. Perfect is the enemy of done.  Many of you reading this want to start a blog, …

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I experimented with ads before, and decided it wasn’t for me. But the default thinking is still that bloggers primarily generate their income through advertisements. Here are a few reasons why I don’t do ads: Low relevance: you came to my blog to read thought-provoking essays, not to see banners of anti-wrinkle creams Site speed: …

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