Why I’m Writing Every Day

You may have noticed that I’ve once again picked up the daily blogging habit on here. That doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m writing every day, but I’m making sure to publish at least one post per day. Some days I’ll write 3–4 posts and save them up, and then some days I’ll write none and be thankful for the backlog.

I’ve done this before, but that was more with an eye toward search engines and growth. This time around it’s more for me and helping to sharpen my thought.

With our monthly Meetup, I often intentionally present topics that I myself am unfamiliar with but curious about — which forces me to think through them, learn more, and put together a presentation. This is similar, but on a smaller and more frequent basis.

Inspriation

The inspiration for this has come from two people. Both of these are people that you can ask a question to and almost always immediately get back a well-thought, deep, articulate answer. They’re amazing.

Seth Godin has written daily posts at seths.blog for many years and attributes it to much of his business success. Here’s a super short video where he explains more:

Chris Lema isn’t blogging every day right now, but has for long stretches of time and still posts quite regularly at chrislema.com. While I’ve heard Seth answer questions in videos and podcasts, I’ve seen Chris answer them live and it really is stunning; he’ll take the most basic question and give an incredibly detailed and helpful…