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what a wonderful post! and idea. cant wait to read more. the theme and tone resonates with me, and our writing echoes the same themes

hope you get a chance to check out my platform

thanks

Ric

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Thanks, Ric! I'll take a peek at your writing as well!

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Welcome back, Nate! I can relate to this piece. I used to be better about writing earlier in the week, but that's suffered now that I'm way more busy with other things lately. What I've found useful in the past—which I'm going to get back to soon here—is writing at least 200 crappy words per day. Chipping away on ideas throughout the week makes it so much easier to polish up a piece for my Saturday post. Thanks for the nudge!

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Thanks! 3 weeks breezed by and it felt like I never left tbh.

I do hope to write 200 crappy words every day, but it leaves me frustrated, and my mindset then is starting from a negative state. If I can find a way to inspire myself (and no joke, I've looked up your pieces to do this) my writing energy/state is much more impactful (to me at least).

That said, it's never easy and I'm mainly throwing shit against the walls 💩

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That’s so flattering, thanks. If it makes you feel any better, my pieces start mainly like throwing shit against the walls too!

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Hi Nate, do you share you weekly Readwise favorites? It would be fun to see them.

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That's a great idea. I haven't, but I use it constantly.

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Well if you ever do, please send the link. I changed the default for the broadcast from favorites to instead use those I tagged with "broadcast". I send it out weekly. If you are interested to see what it looks like, my sign up is readwise.io/@roger.

I won't be offended if you sign up and then unsubscribe (or even if you don't sign up!). Mine goes out on Tuesdays.

Like you, I use it constantly, especially to surface quotes for my website (just relaunched) and also for future writing topics. The inspiration is endless. Such a great app.

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FWIW here's mine, unedited. https://readwise.io/@kadlac

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Thanks Nate, I just signed up for yours. The sign-up page offered up three of your highlights and everyone of them was fantastic and spot-on to what I'm working on this month. Whoa. How cool is that? Thanks for sharing.

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I've been using Readwise daily for a couple of years and love it! I haven't used this feature though, but I just signed up to your notes to test it out.

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Happy to see you in my inbox again! I always appreciate reading what you’re thinking about.

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Thanks, Mike! It's good to be back, even if it's a bit of a rusty start 🤪

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Hi Nate,

I found your post here to resonate with me, so I linked to it in one that I published today

looking forward to pondering more of your thoughts...

find it here

https://riclexel.substack.com/p/to-do-100-pushups-you-must-do-100

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Thanks. I'm a huge fan of Readwise and use it daily!

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