Amateur writers think about: • Which app to take notes in … - Dickie Bush

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Amateur writers think about:

• Which app to take notes in
• Which platform to publish on
• What time of day to publish

Professional writers think about:

• Showing up every day
• Keeping tight feedback loops
• Solving specific problems for specific people

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Dickie Bush, a former BlackRock hedge fund trader and Princeton graduate, became a leading figure in online writing and digital entrepreneurship. He co-founded Ship 30 for 30 with Nicolas Cole, a popular 30-day writing program that has served over 10,000 participants, and runs the Premium Ghostwriting Academy while sharing insights on audience building and atomic essays through his Substack and X.

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The number one indicator of future success: high agency.

It's a simple binary: do you believe you can influence your own outcomes or not.

High-agency: This is an inconvenience. How can I solve this?

Low-agency: This is an inconvenience. This sucks.

Content strategy, 101

1. Find a topic you’ve learned a lot about in the last two years.

2. Create content for your two-years-ago self.

• Best resources
• 80/20 one-pager
• Common misconceptions
• How you’ve changed since learning

Boom - you’ve built an audience.

Take action when motivation is high.

But design your systems to work when motivation is low.

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