When designing a workout programme for someone time-constrained, you focus on compound exercises that work multiple muscle groups at once. These exercises work the full body through a small number of movement patterns.
Publishing each day is a full-body workout for anyone looking to improve their craft and create something new.
Every day I have to:
- Write, knowing something has to be online in the next hour
- Delete, because there’s not enough time to fart around with every idea
- Access the courage needed to continue to share, even when I think I’m a worthless slug
- Refine my metaphors so that people “get” my ideas
- Refine my structure so there’s some narrative flow
- Give the piece a good title, so people are intrigued
- Run through my publishing loop, from writing in Obsidian to migrating it into Hugo to viewing it on the Internet
- Repurpose the content according to different social networks; emphasising productive takeaways in some places; personal reflections in others
- Stay disciplined on social networks, so I can do this all without developing intense misanthropy
- Engage with people who are interested in my ideas, understanding what calls to them and what they want more of
These are a lot of different skills.