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Dickie Bush 🚢 Profile picture
@dickiebush
Jun 15, 2021 • 16 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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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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Consistency leads to competence and credibility.

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

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Dec 28, 2025
25 questions to reflect on 2025 (and make 2026 your best year yet):🧵
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• And refresh your perspective heading into 2025

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

Let's dive in:
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Add some constraints and try to pick 3-5 per month.

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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.

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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
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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
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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:
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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

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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
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• The Evening Shutdown
• The Bottleneck Analysis
• The Compounding Projection

For notebook & pen, I use:

• Muji 0.5 pens
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