On Writing | Ep.19
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On Writing | Ep.19
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- Clearing the creativity faucet as a metaphor for writing from David Perell
- How to improve at writing
- Writing prompts
- Writing every day
- Creative writing VS Business writing
- Brandon's experience using a pre-written adventure module for our D&D game
- Adam is learning about "adventure writing" which is a unique format that combines game design, utility, and creative writing
- Adam started an "Adventure Reading Club" to learn more about the format
- Product Managers should take more notes to practice writing
- Writing skills matter a lot if you want to be effective within an organization. Especially if you have manager in your title.
- Product Managers are needed at scale, not at the beginning
- Telling people to "get better at writing" is bad advice because it is not actionable.
- How Adam actually became a better writer:
- Writing every day
- Running everything through a self-edit round in hemingwayapp.com
- Separate the writing and editing phase. Don't do them at the same time.
- Separate the writing and editing phase by at least one day if you are working on something substantial.
- Business writing should be strong by being concise and clear. You want maximum impact for minimum word count.
- Brandon has 3 real teams using Codex
- Derek Sivers on present VS future focused people
- Sequence of moving across the country and launching Codex seemed off
- Future focused people have a hard time estimating the amount of mental energy things in the present will require
- You have to understand attention management in order to improve time management
- Adam underestimated how much attention his projects with freelancers would take
- Brandon believes he made the right choice to ship sooner even though he was moving
- Rough timeline of the next month for Codex
- The way raising money while building really works
- The raising process explains why so many founders flocked to silicon valley
- The Quickstart Guide to Game Mastering has completed Alpha phase
- Tightening up the intended audience will lead to a more effective guide
- Write useful books by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Applying product thinking to book writing
- Holloway makes awesome books
- Adam really wants you to just ship sooner. Big question: "How did he not internalize this even after a career at Shopify?"
- Code Quality Challenge by Ben Orenstein
- Cargo culting home feeds
- Dev anxiety around Pull Requests
- Our companies are too small for OKRs. Do or do not.
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