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Blogging Thresholds

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How to blog: lower your threshold until you start writing. People often run into problems where their "good enough to post" threshold creeps up and up. They write something really good, people read it, they feel proud, great! That should be motivating! Except now they don't want to write anything worse. They have ideas, but the typical idea will always be less insightful than the best one, and s

Blogging Thresholds Jeff Kaufman Posts RSS ◂◂RSS Contact Blogging Thresholds June 21st, 2016 writing How to blog: lower your threshold until you start writing. People often run into problems where their "good enough to post" threshold creeps up and up. They write something really good, people read it, they feel proud, great! That should be motivating! Except now they don't want to write anything worse. They have ideas, but the typical idea will always be less insightful than the best one, and so putting out something new gets harder and harder. In some ways this makes sense: if you

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