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Stephan Seidt
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Stephan Seidt

4y ago

Working in tech and learning to become a writer of ✨words✨ Software development, food, video games with an artisanal dusting of sarcasm.

Writing has changed my life and that’s mostly thanks to all of you.

Ten thousand words in thirty days, three hundred words every day.

That’s more than everything I’ve written my entire adult life combined. It has, without a doubt, been a transformative experience. I’ve learned, I’ve unlearned, I’ve felt supported, I’ve felt stressed, I’ve felt relief. But most importantly, I got something that I could only hope for when I started.

I gained control over exactly what I want to do with the rest of my life.

I’m feeling this, right now. And I want to keep doing this in some way or another. So I wrote a little manifest to myself and I’m sharing it with you 😇

MANIFEST.txt

  • Write faster. Some essays took me 15 minutes to write, others took hours. Some took way too many hours.

  • Follow up on topics that I started. I’d like to visualize that somehow, like a tech-tree in a video game.

  • Use writing tools for spell checking and style. I prioritized velo(l)city.

  • Publishing longer essays, e.g., posting ~1000 words as a thread of images on Twitter.

  • Get feedback before publishing. I’m curious what feedback I’ll get from different people.

  • Build my own publishing tool. After 30 posts I have a good enough reason to write my own publishing toolchain. scnr 🧑🏼‍💻🙈

  • Start new accounts for my niches on Twitter and Instagram. I used to build these “castles” a lot in the past and I am excited to do it again!

  • Try different formats in future Ship 30 for 30 cohorts: 30 threads on Twitter? 30 side quests on seidt.quest? 30 loops on SoundCloud? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • Get to know more people in future cohorts and work together. I’ve totally missed out on connecting with more of the amazing people. Nuts!

You are amazing.

To everyone who supported me in the last 30 days: Thank you 😭🥲

I’m more grateful for your words than I can explain. You’ve told me to keep going, you’ve taught me how to overcome personal challenges, you’ve shared your own stories, we bathed in random, hilarious memories and we’ve traded thoughts on very out-there stuff that I put out.

Thank you. I could not have done this without you.

And now, I don’t yet know where exactly we’re headed. But I do know that I’m very fucking excited for this future, and I would love to see you there.