Tag: Writing

I find, more often than not, that I understand something much less well when I sit down to write about it than when I’m thinking about it in the shower. In fact, I find that I change my own mind on things a lot when I try write them down. It really is a powerful tool for finding clarity in your own mind.

This. 100x, this.

I spent close to seven years in a marketing department on a content team as I wrote blog posts, ebooks, tweets, podcast episodes, magazine pieces, and slide decks among other things. Based on all that experience, I wanted to share some of the most important lessons I learned from my time there….

Jeremy was good enough to take the time to write about how he prepped for his latest talk (something he had teased awhile back).

It’s always fun to see the similarities and differences between how other people prep and how I do.

I always love seeing how other people approach writing a new talk. Jeremy was kind enough to share some snapshots of his prep.

At times I think “will anyone reads this, does anyone care?”, but I always publish it anyway — and that’s for two reasons. First it’s a place for me to find stuff I may have forgotten how to do. Secondly, whilst some of this stuff is seemingly super-niche, if one person finds it helpful out there on the web, then that’s good enough for me. After all I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read similar posts that have helped me out.

I really like Remy’s approach to syndicating to Medium: use IFTTT to monitor the RSS feed and trigger a webhook that will push the latest post to Medium using their API.

Some advice from Ethan to new designers and developers. While I can’t personally vouch for Ursula Franklin (I’m adding it to my list to read), I do 100% agree with this:

Set up a blog somewhere, anywhere, and write as much as you can. If I’m in a position to hire you, I don’t just want to see the quality of your final mockup, your finished set of templates: I want to learn how you got there. I want to read what worked, what didn’t, and the decisions you made along the way.