Most of my best thinking doesn’t happen in my head.

It happens somewhere between paragraph two and deleting paragraph four.

You watch yourself on the page, and then you decide if you’re full of shit or not.

Paul Graham once said:

“Writing is not just a way to convey ideas, but to have them.”

That’s always felt true. Not always fun. Not always clean.

But true.

So here’s the test: If no one could ever read your writing, would you still do it?

I would.

Same reason I still train, even if no one’s watching. Doesn’t matter whether I like it or not…it gets me the ultimate outcome I want.

It’s not about who’s watching. It’s about who I become.

Audience is a bonus. Clarity is the baseline.

I wrote more about that in my first post ever: