30 days ago, I signed up for Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole's cohort-based course, Ship 30 for 30.

In that time, I wrote & published 30 Atomic Essays and threads, learned the fundamentals of Digital Writing, made friends, and started gaining clarity over what my niche might be. It has been a very rewarding (and challenging) journey, and I am more excited than ever to keep writing online.

Here are the 3 biggest things writing & publishing consistently every day for 30 days taught me:

1. Don't leave consistency to motivation

We all know that consistency is very important to achieve your goals. But we (I do) often leave consistency dependent on our motivation.

Instead, create a system that helps you be consistent in making daily efforts.

I had always wanted to write online consistently but never could because I never made conscious efforts for it till this course.

2. Don't assume you know what the readers want, try and iterate

This was one idea from Dickie and Cole that has stuck with. You should never assume what your reader wants.

Instead, ship something and find if it resonates. If it does not, then find out why.

3. Leave perfectionism

I would always procrastinate writing and then publishing thinking that what I wrote is not good enough.

But I was assuming what my readers want instead of finding that out by asking them.

Turns out, your imperfect work may also be appreciated by your readers.

If you have been thinking about getting started writing online too, let me know. I'm happy to share more about the experience and what I learned.