Half Ideas

I should just write down and publish all of the best ideas I’ve ever had, as quickly and casually as I can, in succession.

So, you want to write something…

2019-07-31

Almost all the writing I’m most proud of was started early in the afternoon and finished at whatever the natural stopping point was, generally between 6 PM and 2 AM.

Patrick Mckenzie (perma)

I have more than 100 text files in my “drafts” folder. Some of them consist only of a few lines; some are hundreds and ... See more

Ideas sometimes seem to need days or weeks or months to get to a point where they feel fully formed. If you try to force a solution to a problem into a preset window of time, you will almost certainly reach a suboptimal solution.

I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one d... See more

That’s why I began writing this newsletter—as a form of public notetaking and writing practice. What I didn’t expect was that, in the process of flinging these posts into a void, I would actually hear from people who were reading these little summaries. This wasn’t meant to be real writing! It was just practice—practice for something else more impo

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