I'm obsessed with Claude Design.

And if you write, you’re also a marketer. You need visual assets everywhere:

• Your newsletter needs a landing page
• Your course needs a sales page
• Your emails need headers

So, here are 7 design guidelines & prompts I've been using: 1. Use an 8-point spacing scale

When a layout feels "off," spacing is the problem 90% of the time.

But when every margin, padding, and gap snaps to a multiple of 8, the layout instantly looks intentional.

Prompt: "Use an 8-point spacing scale throughout."

If I had 12 months and wanted to build a new 𝕏 account to 100,000 followers, I'd use these writing tips to create viral content: My first 9 months writing online were brutal.

I basically got zero likes, zero reposts, and zero comments.

So I learned most of these 19 tips the hard way (and took some from @nicolascole77).

Let's dive in:

This week, I spent 8 hours reading 50+ articles about AI.

And I learned more in 1 day than most will in an entire year.

Highly recommend you read these 8: How to Build Your First AI Agent That Companies Will Pay $10K+ For (Full Course) by @eng_khairallah1

https://x.com/eng_khairallah1/status/2053043365781119482?s=20

The difference between you and the person you want to become is quite literally 3-5 extremely small physical and mental habits.

And these are the 5 most impactful habits I’ve built over the last 5 years (that helped me lose 100 pounds & escape the Wall Street rat race): 1. Walk 15,000 steps per day.

Every good idea I've ever come up with came on a long walk without my phone.

And the daily step count sets an easy foundation for weight loss.

I used to hate AI.

I thought it was all hype.

But now I write with it every single day.

Here's how (with prompts): Everyone says AI is amazing.

But if it feels useless when you use it, don't worry:

You’ve never been shown how to actually write with it.

Here are 7 ways I use it to write better, faster, and with less effort:

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:

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):🧵 1. Grit by Angela Duckworth

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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.

7 lessons from "The Remains of the Day":🧵 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

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:🧵 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):

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:🧵 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:

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:🧵 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:

I used to hate AI.

I thought it was all hype.

But now I write with it every single day.

Here's how (with prompts):🧵 Everyone says AI is amazing.

But if it feels useless when you use it, don't worry:

You’ve never been shown how to actually write with it.

Here are 7 ways I use it to write better, faster, and with less effort:

In the last 5 years, my little business has generated $15,000,000.

The secret?

Copywriting.

But when I first started to master it, I was completely overwhelmed.

So here's the 3-step learning process I wish I had back then (start using this today):🧵 Looking back, 99% of the things I did were a complete waste of time.

But 3 of them were life-changing.

1. Immersion into 1 copywriter's worldview

2. Reading 3 foundational copywriting books

3. Practicing copywork (to see what writing great copy feels like)

Let's dive in:

This writer is so controversial that the US banned some of his books for 30 years.

And in 1930, Henry Miller made a list of 11 Commandments that are a must-read for any aspiring writer.

Here's the breakdown:🧵 First, some context.

Miller's autobiographical novel, The Tropic of Cancer, was banned in the US soon after it was published in 1934.

Here's what Miller had to say about his book (and how he chose the title):

The single most expensive tax:

An unmade decision.

It steals my time, hogs my attention, zaps my energy.

So I use these 8 mental models to go from stuck to decided in under 2 minutes:🧵 1. "Which decision would the person I'm trying to become make?"

You don't *magically* become them.

You become that person by:

• Taking actions that person takes
• Making decisions that person makes

Picture your ideal self – what would they do?

Writing is a superpower.

But I wasted years as a horrible writer.

Then I found a timeless writing guide by two legendary advertising executives.

Staple these 12 tips to your desk:🧵 The goal of your writing is effective communication—writing that *works.*

Busy people read what you write.

So you are more useful to them when your writing takes up less of their time.

Invest the time to write well now to save others time in the future.

At 24, I was a BlackRock trader making $180K.

I was burned out and hated my life.

5 years later, I’ve built 4 businesses and made $15,000,000.

Here’s the underrated career pivot that helped me earn an extra $10K/month (and love work again):🧵
The wake-up call hit hard.

At BlackRock, I watched a 38-year-old colleague ask permission to attend his son's Little League game.

His boss said no.

In that moment, I saw my future flash before my eyes:

I'm 29.

In the last 5 years, my little business has made $15,000,000.

If you're ambitious and in your 20s, but feeling stressed, lost, or stuck, open this thread:🧵 In 2020, I was making $180k at BlackRock.

But I had no freedom, flexibility, or growth potential.

I took a chance and built a writing education business that has made me millions as a writer.

Here’s the one powerful tool I used to get here:

For years, I failed to build a daily writing habit.

But then I spent 1,000 hours studying the routine of legendary writers to see how they did it.

These 10 tiny habits make writing every day effortless:🧵 First, why should you even start writing?

There are so many reasons to create a daily writing practice.

But this is one of my favorites:

I wasted years as a horrible writer.

But then I heard Naval Ravikant mention a 250-word essay full of the best writing mental models he swears by.

4 mental models you can steal today:🧵 On The Tim Ferriss Show, Naval said this is his go-to resource for writing:

"The Day You Became A Better Writer" by Scott Adams

I read it so you don't have to.

Here are the 4 most important mental models:

This family runs one of the world's most successful empires—but no one knows them.

With $50 billion in annual revenue in 2024, Hershey, Ferrero, and Nestlé envy their success.

Here's the fascinating story behind Mars Inc.—the most powerful family-owned empire in the world:🧵
It all started in 1911.

Frank Mars began selling hand-dipped chocolates from his kitchen in Tacoma, Washington.

By 1923, he created the Milky Way bar.

It made over $800,000 in its first year—a blockbuster hit for its time.

But the real game-changer came next: