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A collection of 8 issues

I miss the Blogger/LiveJournal days

I want to write more. Not to write a novel or to market my business, but just to process and communicate about what’s happening in life. I’m not trying to be profound. 99% of life is not profound. Just like telling a friend about what happened today shouldn’

Day 30 of Ship 30: 3 Unexpected Lessons from Writing Every Day for 6 Weeks on LinkedIn

I just completed Ship 30, writing a LinkedIn post every weekday for 6 weeks. This led to 31 qualified leads, sold out my pilot coaching program with 6 participants, and generated €3.000 in sales. Here’s what I learned: 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟭: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘆. I knew I wanted to write about Project 100, how

Day 1: Why I'm Starting To Write Online

I signed up for Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole's cohort-based course, Ship 30 for 30. Here are a few reasons why: First, writing is one of few activities where I actually enjoy doing the thing, and not just its benefits. I like figuring out what I think, wrestling

Why copywriting might be the most underrated skill for product managers

A friend and I were texting about studying writing. As a product manager who used to be a copywriter, I've always believed copywriting might be one of the most underrated skills for product managers. I finally took the time to write why. Why is copywriting so important and

Finding scenius in Compound Writing

Image by Austin Kleon via austinkleon.com [https://austinkleon.com/2019/03/06/a-map-of-scenius/]. I first learned about ‘sceniuses’ from Austin Kleon’s book Show Your Work! [https://austinkleon.com/2017/05/12/scenius/] > If you look back closely at history, many of the people who we think of

To get to the good stuff, get it all out and purge the need to write self help

I love to write. I would love to write about product management, operations, even history. The problem is, I keep writing about self help. Why do I keep writing about self help? It might be because my experience so far has been on helping and improving myself. Initially, I needed

Book: Write it down make it happen (4/10)

Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684850028/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684850028&linkCode=as2&tag=chiaracokieng-20&linkId=XR6AXFOXVLTVUAKE] by Henriette Anne Klauser I expected

The real reason you should write everyday

I think one of the things people online have always wanted to do is publish everyday. That includes me. It’s also really hard, it takes a lot of time, which is why so few people stick to it. I was also convinced that that time is better spent working