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Reflections on Writing, Content Creation

Ben Heim
3 min readFeb 22, 2023
Photo by Yannick Pulver on Unsplash

Earlier today, I was looking at some old writing I did during early 2021 on my Roam Research. At the time, I had a daily habit of a “morning slate.” When I woke up, I’d write about 250 words about whatever was on my mind. While the medium of writing changed (sometimes on Roam, other times in a Word doc, and eventually in Notion), this habit has stuck.

I no longer write for myself each morning, but I do write every day (often for an audience).

We should all publish our writing

Having found significant joy in the writing process on Medium, I often recommend to my friends that they start their own blog. They have interesting things to say — why not share them with the world?

A few of these friends already journal every day, so it wouldn’t seem that difficult to extend themselves into publishing on a blog every once in a while. But as I read my morning slates from almost two years ago now, I can’t help but think: should we publish all of our thoughts?

Quality, Relatability

In line with some thinking I’ve been doing recently, the idea of the importance of the quality of work has come up again and again. In contrast with the work of writers like Austin Kleon, I am hesitant to believe that I should simply “show my…

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