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

In that time, I wrote & published 36 Atomic Essays (this would be my 37th 🤯), learned the fundamentals of Digital Writing, made friends, and started gaining clarity over what I want to do in the future. 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. "I didn't have time" vs "I didn't make time"

I've eliminated "I didn't have time" from my vocabulary as much as possible. I needed that mindset to maintain this streak.

2. I've done a lot of cool shit!

It's easy for me to forget this. I've worked on such a wide variety of products and services, from start-ups to global behemoths.

3. Building in public is scary but worth it.

I was pretty scared to do this again. I didn't even mean to post to LinkedIn! It happened by complete accident (I didn't disable an option in my publishing tool. But when I did, I had such a good response I decided to stick with it!

What's next?

The bad news: I'm going to stop writing essays every day because I need to concentrate on another writing project!

The good news: And that project is... I'm writing a book! My friend asked me to collaborate with them on a book! Keep an eye out for updates!

That does create a problem, though. I love writing and sharing my ideas with people! To scratch that itch, I'm still going to post stuff on LinkedIn and Twitter (God help me). What "stuff" means, I'm not sure yet 😅.

I'm also going to start a newsletter! I'll publish every Monday. One essay a week will be doable without compromising my book commitments.

Once I've found a good newsletter provider to use, I'll share the link.

That's it! I hope you enjoyed my rambling on this one. Normal service will be resumed on the next post 🙏🏾.