I write every day because it’s really fun. (That’s my competitive advantage!) Here are three moments that stuck out to me this week:

While I was writing this post, there was a moment when I felt as if my brain was struck by a bolt of lightning, “There was something I read about this! It’s really relevant!” I noted this feeling, but I couldn’t find the post. I let it go and kept writing. It felt like it was doing its thing—my brain was incubating it. Several minutes later, I took a pause, and I remembered the article contained an example of someone wanting to start a coffee shop should actually try to start one. After a few minutes of searching, I found the reference post.

While I was writing the Hawaiian pizza post—which I thought would take five minutes—I realized how much of Sam Panopoulos’s story there was to tell. He’d had his first slice of pizza on a brief stop in Naples, during his immigration trip from Greece to Canada. Pizza wasn’t popular at the time. Maybe Hawai’i is the proper way to spell the name. How my dad didn’t like pizza, except with pineapples on it. How that makes sense, because Sam put the pineapples on because he was inspired by a chef he’d hired to make Chinese American food. Writing the post gave me a reason to be curious about a topic I never thought twice about.

Lastly, it occurred to me there was an idea brewing about the long, hard, stupid way of doing things. Maybe I could compile some blog posts together and put them into a PDF, like an ebook. Maybe it could include my posts on longcutting, intrinsic motivation, and how sometimes I still feel dumb writing at this blog. When I didn’t write every day, the feeling would pass, and I’d feel frustrated. There was so much I wanted to say and so little time. Now, I can cobble together a rough draft of 10,000 words by simply curating my old blog posts and arranging them in order with relatively little effort. The words are all there.