Day 104: Lost in Cyberspace

I feel like it’s getting harder and harder to connect with people. Google was supposed to make it easy to find things, but what it’s mostly done is increase the number of things there are to find.

When everything is relevant, nothing is.

Just look at Medium or Facebook or Twitter and you’ll find a barrage of garbage content—none of which is remotely interesting to you. It’s the same people posting the same stories OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

I’m guilty, too.

I spent the past month trying to publish 1,000 words a day and it’s doable, but is that my best work? No.

Count Your Ideas, Not Your Words

I don’t disagree with the idea of “shipping” (a la Seth Godin)—I think building the “publish” muscle is important because you don’t want to be paralyzed by perfectionism.

It’s just that the world is so full of garbage.

We don’t need yet another 10,000–word “ultimate guide” on how to optimize your SEO in 2020.

Ship one idea at a time.

And only ship when you mean it.