Every book, every article, every course starts from just one building block:
An Atomic Idea ⚛️
Here's how I take those atomic ideas and turn them into a rich content ecosystem👇
Everything Starts As An Atomic Ideas ⚛️
A spark ⚡️A word. A feeling. A hunch. You're not quite sure where it came from or how you might use it, but you know it's something.
Become Obsessed With Writing These Spark Ideas Down:
👉 Scribble them in a notebook
👉 Transcribe them as you're walking
👉 Throw them into a digital note-taking tool
Atomic Notes Become Atomic Tweets 🐦
Atomic ideas are perfect for tweets. Test these initial ideas out on the Twitter stream. You'll quickly be able to see what sparks with others.
Then you can start to combine these best spark ideas into molecules.
Atomic Ideas Form Together Into Molecular Ideas ✱
As you get feedback on your atomic ideas, you'll start to see clusters form together.
Refine them, expand on them and work them together into essays and threads that you can test again in the flow of Twitter.
Molecules join to form Organisms 🌱
Once you start forming atoms and molecules together you realise that atomic ideas can be formed into EVERYTHING:
Create Your Ecosystem 🌈
Before you know it all those random atomic ideas have formed into an ecosystem of atoms, molecules & organisms working in perfect balance with each other.
And it all started from that one tiny atomic idea
And the great thing about thinking atomic thoughts is that they actually become modular. You can mix and max any together to form wildly different clusters.
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I hit publish daily on tweets & threads about lazy productivity and Knowledge Management for prolific creators.
All those books, articles, courses & products start from one thing:
👉 An Atomic Idea ⚡️
👉 Atomic Ideas make great tweets
👉 Atomic Ideas form together to make molecular ideas - threads & essays
👉 And quickly your content ecosystem starts to build
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Writers are always desperate for critical writing feedback.
But no amount of mastering the craft of writing will make up for poor ideas. What you need instead is feedback on your thoughts & ideas.
Here's how to use Twitter to get critical thought feedback 👇🧵
A huge benefit of writing online in a place like Twitter is the intersections of minds that you are exposed to
Every thought you put out has the potential to be seen by countless others. They add their thoughts, ask questions, engage in conversations and the flywheel turns
Consider Twitter your Writing Lab 🧪
As thoughts bubble up from your thinking and note-taking let them bubble up onto Twitter and expose them to the thought collective in the form of tweets, threads or essays.
I used to spend 3 hours on a Sunday doing my weekly review like the diligent GTD girl that I am.
I HATED IT. And I skipped most weeks.
Now I take 20 minutes on a Friday afternoon & enjoy my weekends. Here's how 👇🧵
Don't Let Things Pile Up
Every day I'm capturing ideas, notes & tasks. Most afternoons I'll do a quick sweep and get everything into the right place. Consider it like a mental tidy up.
Don't' leave things too long before dealing with them.
Wipe The Slate Clean
I don't roll unfinished tasks automatically into the next week. Every task goes back into the project pile
Because this weeks' priorities might not be next week's priorities. So every task goes into the draw again judged on its ROI, not on its past due date
When I pressed publish on day 1 I thought I was writing 30 essays in 30 days. I had no idea it would completely change my life.
I never imagined I would make it to 200 😱
But here we are with 200 lessons I learned in 200 days of shipping 👇
Before we get into the lessons, there are literally hundreds of friends I want to tag who have been PIVOTAL in this journey. But I shall spare you all the tweetstorm and just say if you're reading this THANK YOU for being here.
Now 200 lessons. Are you ready?
OK, I couldn't NOT shout out these two. I literally wouldn't be writing this if it wasn't for @dickiebush & @Nicolascole77
Endless gratitude 🙏 for the constant support and for the amazing ship30 community you've created.
Being a creator can be effortless if you find ways to increase your output without your effort. I believe we call that leverage.
Here's what a typical leveraged shipping day looks like for me 👇
First things first... ALWAYS BE BRAIN DUMPING
I am constantly throwing ideas into my ideas list. My only rule is I have to do a brain dump when I have the idea.
And stop sabotaging your ideas before they have a chance to fly. JUST.STOP.OVERTHINKING