First post
Writing has never been my thing. I love to read but rarely write for myself. Most of the time, my writing was for work or school: imagine someone writing just enough text to communicate the thought clearly to colleagues or pass the courses, using mostly short sentences or bullet points. They are hardly what I would call good writings, but more like project docs or manuals.
Even though that can also make me delighted when someone tells me that my docs are thoughtful, that they keep finding them helpful, or that they discover things they didn’t know before. They are the supplement of how I communicate my thoughts with others. Writing, in any form, can help people I work with read at any time, any place, and at their own pace when we are not together.
With all its merit, I hope to get better by keep writing here: not only for others to read but also for myself. Writing forces me to understand an idea well enough to explain it, and it helps me connect ideas together.
The beginning of the idea for this website/blog started around half a year ago. I was told that writing helps shaping thoughts and building better vision and strategy, which is totally true but it’s still hard to start. But then I came across blog posts about writings - there are two of them by the same author I really like:
This post basically told me that, let me borrow their words, “the most effective way for me to get good ideas was not to sit around and wait for them to occur. It was to take action so that the ideas could arrive.” and “by actually doing things out in the world, they opened the door to better ideas.”
It even mention that if I want to get more writing ideas, the good way to start is to write a blog. So nothing to say more, I should start writing.
Again let me quote them:
some people, even those who want to write, underestimate just how much leverage writing can give you. Writing improves both your thinking and communication, which means it helps you do better at almost everything in life: from obvious applications (like writing work emails) to less-obvious applications (like communicating in relationships).
If you want to become a better writer, one thing you could actually do right now is the following. Commit to writing for 30 minutes a day for the next 30 days (including weekends if possible).
Pasting your words into a blog and hitting ‘Publish’ is a forcing function for you to let the ink dry; to give your words a stamp of approval before they are out there in the world. This helps you avoid the constant editing and re-editing that can happen if your words live exclusively in a Google Doc.
Well I don’t think I can publish every days but I will try to post every week. Let’s see how far I can get.
Last thing, what will I write about? To be honest I don’t know, basically it can be anything! But in the beginning, I plan to write what currently is in my interests like startups, investing, productivity, and, of course, AI. We will if how it goes!