For your next social media post

Here’s a suggestion: The next time you have a thought you’re excited to share, rather than open up Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn and hammer out the idea there, publish a short blog post to your personal site.

The point isn’t to get readership or attention at all. The point is to force yourself to articulate and expand on the idea, which has a magical way of helping you understand the idea (and yourself) much better. You'll remove the performative element native to a social network to focus entirely on learning and improvement.

This then leads to new questions and ideas, which leads to new posts, and a wonderful snowball effect begins. This accelerates your own learning in a beautiful, virtuous process.

As always: Create to understand, not to gain influence. The latter tends to come over years and years of doing the former. (There is no shortcut.)

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