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Dickie Bush 🚢 Profile picture
@dickiebush
Mar 7, 2021 • 54 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
My mission: Empower 1,000,000 people to build an online writing habit.

Writing and publishing online is the highest leverage habit in human history.

Below you'll find tweets and threads on building a writing habit, prolific content creation, and intentional audience building:
1/ Content strategy, 101

2/ Mastering the creative process with @JamesClear

3/ The best online writing resources

4/ Creativity unblocking, 101

5/ More content strategy, 101

6/ The first principles of Twitter growth

7/ The 10 biggest problems early writers have

8/ Taking a data-driven approach to writing online

9/ How to find your niche

10/ How to craft a good tweet

11/ Overcoming impostor syndrome

12/ The biggest benefits of writing

13/ The best episodes of the @tferriss show to build your writing habit

14/ More Audience Building, 101

15/ Even more Audience Building, 101

16/ How to become an idea machine

17/ @tferriss on how to use writing to clarify your thinking

18/ Measure audience density, not volume

19/ Copywriting mastery with @craigclemens

20/ Flipping the script on impostor syndrome

21/ How to build your curiosity flywheel

22/ How to create a prolific content production system

23/ Advice from the most prolific online creators

24/ Lessons from @tferriss and @JerrySeinfeld on the creative process

25/ Advice I'd give to myself a year ago

26/ The daily writing routines of the world's most prolific writers

27/ How to use @JamesClear’s Four Laws of Behavior Change to build a daily writing habit
28/ How to eliminate distractions
29/ The best books to read when building a writing habit
30/ The growth seen by Ship 30 for 30 members this cohort

31/ The Ship 30 for 30 tech stack

32/ How to make bullet lists (which are way better than dash lists)

33/ How to use twitter advanced search to see someone’s best tweets
34/ Product strategy, 101
35/ 10 advanced Twitter features you've probably never seen

36/ A breakdown of how I think about the two parts of the creative process

37/ How to unblock creativity

38/ Using the 1/3/1 framework to write great tweets

39/ Writing as the foundation for all creative work

40/ How to leverage creative constraints

41/ The four universal content buckets

42/ Three reasons not to write (and three reasons you should)

43/ Seven creative principles (in five words or less)

44/ Data-Driven Twitter Writing, 101

45/ The fastest way to improve your copywriting

46/ How to write more (without writing more)

47/ The two parts of the creative process

48/ Writing online: the fastest way to realize how little other people think about what you're doing.

49/ 7 headline mistakes that once you see, you'll never make again.

50/ How to write better blog posts

51/ 10 Lessons from legendary marketer David Ogilvy

52/ How to use Twitter Advanced Search

53/ How to never run out of ideas using the AAAA framework:

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Dickie Bush 🚢 Profile picture
Dec 28, 2025
25 questions to reflect on 2025 (and make 2026 your best year yet):🧵
This list will help you:

• Recap the year
• Take stock of where you are
• And refresh your perspective heading into 2025

It's the exact process I used to do my yearly reflection.

Let's dive in:
1. What were the big moments, memories, and milestones from this year?

Add some constraints and try to pick 3-5 per month.

Write this as if you were writing a summary of the year you could look back on in 20 years.
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Dec 23, 2025
I asked 430,000 people for their favorite book of 2025.

These 12 books showed up the most often (so they must be worth reading):🧵 Image
1. Grit by Angela Duckworth

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2. The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel

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Jul 17, 2025
Jeff Bezos built Amazon into a $200B+ empire.

And his most famous decision-making model was inspired by a book he has reread every year for 25+ years.

7 lessons from "The Remains of the Day":🧵 Image
The book follows Stevens, an English butler who sacrificed everything for "professional dignity."

But in his final years, he realizes a devastating truth:

• His dignity was a prison
• He never lived for himself
• His whole life was spent in fear Image
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This revelation shook Bezos to his core.

At 30, he was the youngest Senior VP at D.E. Shaw:

• Making $1M/year
• On track to be partner
• Living the Wall Street dream

But something felt off:
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Jul 8, 2025
Everyone should have a digital business that makes $10k/month.

But most overthink, never start, and waste years.

This is the simple playbook that took me from $0 to $40k/month while working full-time at BlackRock:🧵 Image
1. Start a Side Hustle While Working Full-Time

Don't quit your job right away. Instead, trade time for money until you can trade what you've learned for money.

Here's how to choose a high-leverage job (so you don’t waste time in your 9 to 5):
In January 2020, I started to write online.

For 9 months, I worked on my newsletter which hardly anyone read.

So, I picked one platform (𝕏) and went all-in.

I wrote a thread every day for 30 days. On day 28, one of them went viral.

Here's the story:
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Dickie Bush 🚢 Profile picture
Jul 1, 2025
For years, I struggled to build a daily writing habit.

But now I write for 90 minutes every single day.

I used these 5 dead-simple steps to create a habit I could actually stick to:🧵 Image
By the end of this thread you will have:

1. Found time to write
2. Generated 12 months of ideas
2. Set a daily publishing cadence
4. Overcome your procrastination
5. Built a bulletproof accountability system

So you can start writing today.

Let's go:
Step 1. Design your writing routine in a single sentence.

This is immediately where most people go wrong.

They set a vague goal to "start writing."

Instead, you want to define:

• When you're writing
• Where you're writing
• For how long you're writing

Here's an example:
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Jun 23, 2025
The single most powerful habit for personal growth:

Journaling.

Over the past 5 years, I have tested 1,000+ prompts and journaled every single day.

And I always return to these 5 simple prompts:🧵 Image
For my prompts, I use:

• The 80/20 Audit
• The Morning Kickstart
• The Evening Shutdown
• The Bottleneck Analysis
• The Compounding Projection

For notebook & pen, I use:

• Muji 0.5 pens
• Leuchtturm1917 soft-covers

Here's why I picked these tools:
Prompt 1: The Morning Kickstart

My current morning routine:

• Make a fresh double espresso
• Crack open my notebook
• Brain dump answers to 5 questions

But here's the catch: I set strict limits.

No one has time to write a novel every morning—so here's what I do instead:
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