Once you've of mined your own hard-won experiences and started iterating generating content regularly, you'll need a method to systematically capture ideas.
You never want to be facing the blank page wondering: what do I write or film today?
==Technique #1: Eureka Moments==
Once you commit to a practice of creating content, you'll start to see new ideas for everywhere. Your brain is primed.
Once you buy a car, you start seeing that model everywhere.
Turning your mindset from being a consumer to a creator happens gradually, but one way to pour rocket fuel on the process:
Harness the passive consumption from your daily life.
If you curate your content diet so you can naturally generate content ideas from it, content creation happens frictionlessly.
Ali's recommendation: use your Twitter as inspiration to "pull" content ideas from as you browse.
If you don't consume content on what you're creating, you might not have creator-market fit.
This is true for me re: esports. I'm an expert (founding employee at an esports company that sold for millions), but I'm not drawn to reading esports regularly.
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2/ NOTE! There's no such category as plain old “useful content." 🙅♀️
Useful is table stakes!
If you make it useful - or entertaining, or inspiring - you might as well make it hyper-discoverable, hyper-relevant to your audience, or level it up into something sellable