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I talk about digital writing, internet business, and personal growth | Former @blackrock hedge fund trader turned writer & operator

Jun 15, 2021, 16 tweets

The world's most valuable skill:

Writing effectively.

But colleges charge you 120k and still do a terrible job teaching it.

Instead, here are 9 writing frameworks that cost you nothing and will save you hundreds of hours:

1. Start with building your writing habit by leveraging @JamesClear's Four Laws of Behavior Change.

2. With your writing habit down, study these 10 tips from the world's most legendary marketer: David Ogilvy.

3. Then, immerse yourself in the takeaways from the bible on business writing.

4. Like to learn on the go?

Dive into the creative process of the world's best writers in these 10 episodes of the @timferriss show.

5. Like to read instead?

These 10 books more than cover everything you need to know:

6. Struggling to find time to write?

Discover the life-changing magic of Sacred Hours.

7. Finding yourself constantly distracted?

Stop relying on willpower. Design your environment distraction impossible.

8. Overwhelmed with too many choices?

• What to write?
• When to write
• Where to write?

Leverage the power of creative constraint.

9. Once you've started writing, now you need more ideas to write about.

Use the AAAA framework to never stare at a blank page again.

Now, you could passively read all of these ideas and then stuff your notes somewhere to be forgotten forever.

Or you can learn to write by writing and publishing every day for 30 days with 500+ other writers.

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I'm glad this thread took off because it validates a simple idea:

Consistency leads to competence and credibility.

These 9 threads were the most popular of over 75 that I've written.

And now 1.25 million people have seen them.

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