My Writing Process

Every day, from 2pm-2:30pm PT, me (and sometimes a few friends), will hop on a call, and write, uninterrupted, for 30 minutes about anything in the world. It's 2pm because it's that time after lunch where my food would otherwise be digesting, and it's a time that works for the Brits. There are no real rules to the writing, but I tend to keep to the following principles: I want to produce something complete, though I don't beat myself up when I don't. Half an hour is not that much time, and the brevity means that I have to practice writing quickly. I'd like to eventually get to a point where, Marginal Revolution style, that's a sufficient amount of time to fully capture a complete thought. I spend about 5-10 minutes brain dumping in semi-organized bullet points, and then turn the brain dumps into posts. I don't use AI during this one half an hour blogging. There is something about the act of writing one's thoughts out, thinking about the words as they are crafted, that helps me think. (

saved by

• Gloria Ma
• Fatima Ali