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Okay Twitter, let’s have some fun.

Name somebody who is doing extremely interesting work, and deserves more recognition.
My pick: @worrydream

This is still one of the best talks I’ve ever seen.

Thanks for all the excellent responses!

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David Perell
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Online education is classic disruption.

In-person education is too expensive, overserves a huge percentage of students, and aspects of online education are already better than the in-person experience.
Things that are already better:

∙ Ease of creating small group discussion
∙ Geographic diversity
∙ No commuting
∙ More investment in lectures
∙ Easy to message people 1-on-1
∙ Community forums to preserve knowledge

(h/t @will_mannon and @fortelabs)
The most impactful thing to happen this year is students no longer need an introduction to Zoom, so you can now use the software in more advanced ways.

Here's my thread on what you need to know to understand the online education industry.

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Ways to think about writing online:

1) Writing: How you discover what you’re thinking in the first place.

2) Writing: How to use the Internet to make friends.

3) Writing: Making your ideas work for you 24/7, as they spread across every corner of the globe.
4) Writing: An adventure through the chambers of your mind.

5) Writing: Making your ideas concrete so they can spread without your active involvement.

6) Writing: Paving the path for the business you’ve always wanted to start.

7) Writing: How you set your company strategy.
8) Writing: Painting a vision for the future you want to create.

9) Writing: Making sense of events and turning them into history.

10) Writing: Becoming a magnet for like-minded people.

11) Writing: Improving your thinking by exploring every side of an important argument.
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In school, you learn to start with an outline but I often write mine at the end.

Here's what that looks like:

∙ Write a bunch of little paragraphs with random thoughts on a topic.

∙ Organize them into topics and sections.

∙ Once the structure is clear, I create an outline.
Starting with an outline can be problematic because it can block the creative serendipity that makes writing so productive.

Or, as @paulg once wrote: "Expect 80% of the ideas in an essay to happen after you start writing it, and 50% of those you start with to be wrong."
"I was writing and now my outline doesn't make sense anymore."

The frustration you feel is a good thing. It means you're thinking thoughts you've never thought before, which is proof of progress.

Then, once you've exhausted your ideas, create an outline

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