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Ranbir Singh's avatar

Thanks for this, it's a good time of year for it. I feel like the Venn diagram between "what you write about" and "what you do for work" overlaps more and more as you go up your tier list. I feel this dissonance now as my career (love it and it pays the bills) has nothing to do with what I want to write about. Staying tuned for part 2!

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Joe Duncan's avatar

This is super helpful:

"The second one is imagining that what you’ve just written is a post by one of the other writers that both you and many other people like. “Could <a really good writer you like> possibly written this essay him/herself?” If the answer is yes, maybe it’s actually good."

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