You’re uniquely suited to tell us about the world from your perspective.
In order to decide to do it, though, there might be some fears to overcome:
- We’ll think you’re weird.
- We’ll think you’re dumb. You’re doing it wrong.
- We’ll think you’re boring.
- We don’t care about your perspective to begin with.
I have all those fears every time I publish something. But when any of those fears is realized, it’s a path toward something.
- “Weird” is interesting. “Weird” is new. New things are weird, by definition.
- “Dumb” means you get to learn something. You get to get better. Or try, at least.
- “Boring” tends to mean either “too obvious” or “too complicated”. You’re either entering a topic at the ground level, and there’s a lot you get to learn; or you’re way ahead of the rest of us, and there’s a lot you get to teach us when you figure out how to bridge that gap.
- When we don’t care about your perspective to begin with, those other fears don’t matter so much. People are wrapped up in their own heads, their own shit, and your perspective on whatever is way down on their list. That’s true until their attention gets drawn to whatever you’ve written about. Then you might get their attention. But in the meantime you get to work your own shit out in obscurity.
“I don’t have anything to write about.”
Just write about the few true things you know. Do us that favor.
