The writing habit that saved my brain (and my future)

If you don’t know what to learn, start writing. 如果你不知道该学什么，那就开始写作。 Even if you don’t want to be a “writer.” 哪怕你并不想成为一名“作家”。 Writing teaches you how to think, how to learn any skill fast, and how to attract an audience that supports your work, which is absolutely needed if you want to build your own business, or just do any kind of independent creative/meaningful work. 写作会教你如何思考、如何快速掌握任何技能，以及如何吸引一群支持你作品的受众。如果你想创办自己的事业，或只是想独立从事任何有创造性、有意义的工作，这些能力都不可或缺。 In the age of AI, thinking, learning, and distribution (getting your value in front of other people so you actually have the chance of being paid) are timeless skills. Writing allows you to practice them all while building digital leverage as a byproduct. 在 AI 时代，思考、学习和传播（把你的价值呈现在别人面前，让自己真正有机会获得报酬）都是历久弥新的技能。写作让你同时练习这三项技能，并在过程中顺带积累数字杠杆。 I never thought I would be a writer. 我从没想过自己会成为一名作家。 I don’t even look the part. I’m a big dumb meathead who fell in love with deep ideas. 我甚至看起来都不像干这行的人。我就是个迷恋深刻思想的傻大个。 By all measures, writing, as a simple morning habit, has completely changed the course of my mind and life. It has helped me articulate my thoughts, calm my mind, find opportunities outside of the traditional job market, and is the single thing that fuels the success of my work and business. 无论从哪个角度看，把写作当作一个简单的晨间习惯，都彻底改变了我的思想轨迹与人生走向。它帮助我清晰表达想法、平复思绪、在传统就业市场之外找到机会，也是推动我的工作与事业取得成功的唯一核心动力。 In this letter, I want to show you my system for capturing ideas and writing content worth reading, but I also want to show you why this path is more viable than ever - and why it will transform how your brain interacts with reality. 在这封信里，我想向你展示自己捕捉想法、写出值得一读的内容所用的系统；同时也想告诉你，为什么这条路如今比以往任何时候都更可行，以及它为什么会改变你的大脑与现实互动的方式。 Yes, it’s that deep. 没错，它就是有这么深。 Let’s begin. 我们开始吧。 Old leverage VS new leverage: The secret to modern success 旧杠杆 VS 新杠杆：现代成功的秘密 The biggest leverage is no longer capital. The biggest leverage is enterprise — the ability to run a great business. And in particular, the biggest leverage is personal brand. Having a big audience. As soon as you’ve got people paying attention to you, you have this enormous form of leverage. – Daniel Priestley 最大的杠杆不再是资本。最大的杠杆是经营能力——把一家企业经营好的能力。而具体来说，最大的杠杆是个人品牌，是拥有大量受众。一旦有人开始关注你，你就拥有了一种极其强大的杠杆。——Daniel Priestley The rules of wealth creation have fundamentally changed. 创造财富的规则已经发生了根本性的变化。 The assets that drove income in the Industrial Age (property, factories, machinery, physical goods) are being replaced by digital assets (audience, personal brand, IP, content, data, software) that are incredibly cheap to build, more scalable, harder to tax, and compound while you sleep. 工业时代那些带来收入的资产（房产、工厂、机器、实体商品），正在被数字资产（受众、个人品牌、知识产权、内容、数据、软件）取代。数字资产的创建成本极低，更容易规模化，更难被征税，而且会在你睡觉时持续产生复利。 The only requirement to building leverage for yourself in today’s world is a good idea and the confidence to post it on the internet. 在当今世界，为自己建立杠杆所需的，不过是一个好想法，以及把它发布到互联网上的信心。 The problem, and opportunity, is that most people are still conditioned by Industrial values. They somehow still believe that school → job → retire is the most certain, safe, and secure when that couldn’t be any further from the truth. 问题——同时也是机会——在于，大多数人仍受工业时代价值观的制约。他们不知为何依然相信“上学 → 工作 → 退休”是最确定、最稳妥、最安全的道路，而事实恰恰与此相去甚远。 The same holds true when it comes to building leverage, and thus creating wealth, for your future. 为自己的未来建立杠杆、进而创造财富时，道理同样如此。 Old leverage comes from physical, tangible assets. 旧杠杆来自有形的实体资产。 A house, factory, Rolex, fleet of trucks, warehouse of inventory, gold. You buy them, then let them appreciate or generate income. 房子、工厂、劳力士、卡车车队、装满库存的仓库、黄金。你买下它们，然后等待它们升值或产生收入。 Old leverage is linear and local. 旧杠杆是线性的，也是本地化的。 A factory can only produce so many units per day, and a house can only be rented to one tenant at a time. 一家工厂每天的产量终究有限，一套房子同一时间也只能租给一个租客。 Don’t get me wrong, leverage is leverage, and old leverage is still a great thing. 别误会，杠杆就是杠杆，旧杠杆依然是很好的东西。 However, physical assets are going to be the first thing that governments find, tax, and seize if wages collapse, which is more likely today than yesterday because AI can swiftly do that, leading to governments expanding social safety nets. 然而，如果工资体系崩塌，实体资产会最先被政府找到、征税和没收。而在 AI 能够迅速冲击工资收入的今天，这种情况比过去更有可能发生，并会促使政府扩大社会保障体系。 Governments are much less likely to seize an email list of people who know who you are, a library of content, or a best-selling book. 相比之下，政府没那么可能没收一份认识你的人的邮件名单、一个内容库，或一本畅销书。 New leverage comes from intangible, digital assets. 新杠杆来自无形的数字资产。 An audience, personal brand, IP, data, systems, software. These are the leverage of the newly rich. Media, data, and code. Content can be written once and be seen by millions of people. Software can be created once and serve millions of users. 受众、个人品牌、知识产权、数据、系统、软件——这些是新富阶层使用的杠杆：媒体、数据和代码。一份内容只需写一次，就能被数百万人看到；一个软件只需开发一次，就能服务数百万用户。 For most people, writing is the most accessible and practical form of leverage. You can learn to code, but if you cannot attract people to care about the product you built, then nobody will use or pay for it. Writing is the leverage that unlocks other forms of leverage. 对大多数人来说，写作是最触手可及、最实用的杠杆形式。你可以学习编程，但如果无法吸引别人关心你做出的产品，就不会有人使用它或为它付费。写作正是开启其他杠杆形式的那一根杠杆。 You will not see digital assets on a balance sheet, but they represent 90% of the S&P 500’s value. 你不会在资产负债表上看到数字资产，但它们占据了标普 500 指数成分股总价值的 90%。 Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, Ryan Reynolds, Mr. Beast, Elon Musk - all have massive audiences and personal brands. Kim Kardashian、Taylor Swift、Ryan Reynolds、Mr. Beast、Elon Musk——他们都拥有庞大的受众和强大的个人品牌。 But you probably don’t want anywhere near their level of fame, and that’s a great thing, because you don’t need millions of followers to make this work. With 6-12 months of focused effort, you can find yourself in a wildly different life than you are now. 但你大概并不想拥有接近他们那种程度的名气，而这反倒是件好事，因为你不需要数百万粉丝就能让这套方法奏效。只要专注投入 6 到 12 个月，你就可能发现自己过上了与现在截然不同的生活。 Personally, I replaced my income around 5,000 followers (about 6 months in) because I actually took it seriously. My friend Randy, a fitness coach, was making $100k a month at around 10,000 followers, because he invested in education, studied marketing and sales, and implemented everything as if his life depended on it. 就我个人而言，因为我真的认真对待这件事，所以在拥有约 5,000 名粉丝时（开始大约 6 个月后），线上收入就取代了原本的收入。我的朋友 Randy 是一名健身教练，他在拥有约 10,000 名粉丝时，每月收入已达到 10 万美元，因为他投资于学习，研究营销和销售，并像性命攸关一样把所学的一切付诸实践。 The point is that people drastically overestimate how much they need to win, because all they see is out-of-touch celebrities on their timeline. 关键在于，人们严重高估了取得成功所需的规模，因为他们在时间线上看到的全是那些离普通生活很遥远的名人。 That’s why we teach how to find what you want to talk about, create your ‘personal monopoly,’ and write high-impact content in our bootcamp.（https://eden.so/bootcamp） You still have time to join the next live call we’re doing. 因此，我们会在训练营中教你如何找到自己想谈论的主题、建立你的“个人垄断”，并写出高影响力的内容。（https://eden.so/bootcamp） 你现在仍来得及参加我们的下一场直播通话。 But the benefits of writing stem far beyond that. 但写作的益处远不止于此。 How writing completely shifts your brain & life 写作如何彻底改变你的大脑与人生 How do I know what I think until I see what I say? – E.M. Forster 在看见自己说出的话之前，我怎么知道自己在想什么？——E.M. Forster It’s hard to explain... but the act of writing is much deeper than putting pen to paper. 这很难解释……但写作这件事远不只是提笔落字那么简单。 It shifts your mind to see the world in a more meaningful way. 它会转变你的心智，让你以一种更有意义的方式看待世界。 Conversations become a source of inspiration. Your thoughts become filled with ideas you’re wrestling to understand. You notice more detail in life rather than living on the stressful surface. 谈话会成为灵感的来源。你的脑海会充满那些你正努力理解的想法。你开始注意到生活中更多的细节，而不是只活在令人焦虑的表层。 In my eyes, there are 4 key benefits to writing: 在我看来，写作有四项关键益处： 1) Writing rewires how you think 1）写作会重塑你的思考方式 The core mechanism here is forced linearity. 这里的核心机制，是强制性的线性表达。 Which is a fancy way of saying that you can feel like you understand something in your head, but writing forces you to collapse it into a single stream. 说得直白些：你可能觉得自己在脑中已经理解了某件事，但写作会迫使你把那些散乱的思绪收束成一条连贯的脉络。 Thinking without writing is like walking through a forest where you can see every direction, while writing itself is like driving on a road through the disorienting mess. You have to decide where you’re going, which turns you’re going to take, whether or not you want to take the scenic route, and how to navigate back if you get lost. 只思考而不写作，就像走在森林里，你能看见四面八方；写作本身，则像沿着一条道路穿过这片令人迷失的混乱。你必须决定要去哪里、在哪些路口转弯、要不要走风景更好的路线，以及迷路后该如何返回。 In other words, writing is the apparatus for thinking. It’s the gym where your mind is built. 换句话说，写作是思考的装置，也是锻造心智的健身房。 You may think you understand the feelings, counterarguments, memories, or half-formed analogies in your head, and even your values and beliefs, but unless you write them out, I can almost guarantee you don’t. 你也许以为自己理解脑中的感受、反方观点、记忆或尚未成形的类比，甚至理解自己的价值观与信念；但除非把它们写出来，否则我几乎可以肯定，你其实并不理解。 2) Writing increases pattern recognition 2）写作会增强模式识别能力 There are a few layers to this. 这件事可以分为几个层次。 The first is that by writing regularly, you build an external record of your thinking. You are able to quickly reference what you’ve written in the past as a way or articulating your current thoughts better. It helps you think with clarity. 第一，持续写作会为你的思考建立一份外部记录。你可以迅速查阅过去写过的内容，用它们更好地表达当下的想法。这会让你的思路更加清晰。 The second layer is similar to the “photographer’s eye.” After a few years of serious practice, you start to see frames and compositions in everyday life. The world doesn’t look the same, it has another layer of depth. 第二个层次类似于“摄影师之眼”。经过几年认真的练习，你会开始在日常生活中看到取景与构图。世界看起来不再一样，而是多了一层深度。 With writing, you start noticing structure in an argument, a metaphor in a mundane moment, or the narrative arc of your average day. Writing trains a specific kind of attention that bleeds into everything. 通过写作，你会开始留意一段论证的结构、平凡时刻中的隐喻，或普通一天里的叙事弧线。写作训练出一种特殊的注意力，而它会渗透到一切事物之中。 The third layer is that you notice ideas you normally wouldn’t have. 第三个层次是，你会注意到平时不会产生的想法。 When I have a newsletter planned for the week, or just know that I need to write a tweet today, my mind will naturally help me notice ideas that help achieve those goals. 当我为这一周安排了一期 Newsletter，或者只是知道今天需要写一条推文时，我的大脑自然会帮助我留意那些有助于实现这些目标的想法。 It’s the concept of psycho-cybernetics - that your mind is like a heat seeking missile towards it’s goals, and will help you notice the tools you need to achieve them (the problem is that people don’t actually have conscious goals they care about, they have unconscious goals assigned to them, and since their path is planned for them, they don’t have to do much aside from show up to school and work, so they are missing this layer of life). 这就是心理控制论（psycho-cybernetics）的概念：你的心智如同一枚追踪目标的热寻导弹，会帮助你注意到实现目标所需的工具。（问题在于，人们往往并没有自己真正在意的、有意识的目标；他们只有别人塞给自己的无意识目标。由于人生道路早已被安排好，他们除了按时去学校和公司之外不必做太多，因此也错过了生活的这一层。） 3) Writing helps you articulate your thoughts 3）写作帮助你清晰表达自己的想法 Most people walk around believing they understand things they don’t. 大多数人活在世上，以为自己理解了其实并不理解的东西。 Not because they’re dumb, but because they’ve never been forced to externalize the thought and look at it. Writing is not only a tool to improve communication - thus improving most other areas of your life - but a tool to expose whether or not you actually know what you’re talking about. 这不是因为他们笨，而是因为他们从未被迫把想法外化，再仔细审视它。写作不仅是改善沟通、进而改善生活中大多数其他领域的工具，也是一种揭示你是否真的明白自己在说什么的工具。 That’s what most people are afraid of. 这正是大多数人害怕的地方。 They don’t want to feel the struggle that comes from doing something meaningful. They want it to be easy. They want all the ideas to just come to their head immediately. They see writing as something that everyone knows how to do, so they don’t appreciate that it is a skill just like anything else, and takes effort to improve. 他们不想感受做一件有意义的事情所带来的挣扎。他们希望一切都很容易，希望所有想法立刻涌入脑海。他们认为写作是人人都会做的事，因此没有意识到，写作和其他事情一样是一项技能，需要投入努力才能提高。 Which leads into the most important point. 这就引出了最重要的一点。 4) Writing helps you learn faster 4）写作帮助你更快地学习 The future belongs to those who can learn the fastest. 未来属于学习速度最快的人。 And unfortunately, most people stop learning after they graduate high school, and it shows. 遗憾的是，大多数人高中毕业后就停止了学习，而且这一点显而易见。 You must learn in order to achieve a goal, so if you want to achieve any goal outside of the three society planted in your head at birth, then you must self-educate, and if you want to enhance that process, you must write. 为了实现目标，你必须学习。因此，如果你想实现任何一个不属于社会从你出生起就植入脑中的那三个目标，就必须自我教育；而如果想强化这个过程，就必须写作。 Writing is both a form of teaching and understanding. 写作既是一种教学方式，也是一种理解方式。 In learning science, there’s the “protégé effect,” which shows that students who teach material retain it better than students who merely study it. 学习科学中有一个“门徒效应”（protégé effect）：研究表明，教授学习材料的学生，比仅仅学习材料的学生记得更牢。 The cognitive load required to figure out how to explain something to someone else forces deeper processing, better organization, and identification of gaps in knowledge. 为了弄清楚如何向别人解释某件事，大脑必须承担额外的认知负荷；这会迫使人进行更深层的加工、更有条理地组织信息，并发现知识中的空缺。 I learned more in my first 6 months of writing online than I ever did in school. I’m exaggerating, but what I mean is that I learned much more about the things I care about. I could feel my mind changing shape, and I was closer to being like the thinkers that I admired as I was growing up. My younger self thought my brain was just too dumb to speak intelligently. Turns out, I just didn’t practice. 开始在网上写作的头六个月里，我学到的东西比在学校里任何时候都多。这话有些夸张，但我的意思是，我对自己真正关心的事物学得更多了。我能感觉到自己的心智正在改变形状，也更接近那些成长过程中令我敬仰的思想家。年轻时的我以为，自己的脑子就是太笨，没法有见地地说话。后来才发现，我只是没有练习过。 Last, writing demands that you understand. 最后，写作要求你真正理解。 You read something. 你读到一些东西。 You feel like you get it. 你觉得自己懂了。 You try to write about it. 你试着把它写下来。 You realize you can’t. 然后你发现自己写不出来。 Most people think it’s because they aren’t “qualified” to write about the topic, which is bullsh*t. You can write about an idea just like any other person on planet Earth can. You’re just creating invisible gatekeepers out of fear of putting your ideas in front of other people. 大多数人会以为，这是因为自己“不够资格”写这个话题——纯属胡扯。地球上的任何人都可以写一个想法，你当然也可以。你只不过因为害怕把自己的想法呈现在别人面前，而凭空制造出了一群看不见的守门人。 But now you know exactly where your understanding breaks. 但现在，你准确地知道自己的理解断在了哪里。 That’s when you go back and learn. You research. Then you continue writing. 这时，你回过头去学习、研究，然后继续写作。 The writing system I use to generate ideas people can't help but read 我用来产生让人忍不住读下去的想法的写作系统 I’ve never been the most organized person. 我从来都不是最有条理的那种人。 I’ve tried the second brain apps. I’ve tried doing everything inside of AI. 我试过各种“第二大脑”应用，也试过把所有事情都放在 AI 里完成。 But I always found myself going back to jotting down ideas in a long-running note. Of course, ideas would get lost all the time, but I don’t see that as a problem. If you need to remember it, it’s not important, and if it’s important, you will remember it. 但到最后，我总会回到同一种做法：在一份长期使用的笔记里随手记下想法。当然，想法经常会丢失，但我并不认为这是问题。如果一个想法需要你刻意记住，那它就不重要；如果它真的重要，你自然会记得。 I’ve found that great writing (or content) that actually gains traction and doesn’t disappear into a black hole of nobody caring about your work boils down to a few things: 我发现，真正能够获得关注、不至于消失在无人问津的黑洞里的优秀写作（或内容），归根结底取决于以下几件事： - You need ONE topic or theme for the week - 一周只需要一个主题 - You need a place to quickly jot down ideas - 你需要一个能快速记下想法的地方 - You need a way to capture inspiration (social posts, YouTube videos, Substack articles, etc) - 你需要一种捕捉灵感的方法（社交媒体帖子、YouTube 视频、Substack 文章等） - You need to understand how to package the hook or title so that people actually want to read it - 你需要懂得如何包装开头的钩子或标题，让人真正想读下去 - You need to effectively pull from your ideas, inspiration, and research while you are actually writing or creating - 在真正写作或创作时，你需要能有效调取自己的想法、灵感与研究资料 This is what that looks like in the form of a system. 把这些整合成一个系统之后，就是下面这个样子。 It may seem complex, but we’ll recap at the end in a simple way. 它也许看起来很复杂，但我们会在最后用一种简单的方式回顾一遍。 1) How To Pick What To Write About 1）如何选择写作主题 I don’t care about niching down. 我不在乎所谓的“缩小细分领域”。 You are not an animal that dies when they get put in a different niche or environment, like a lion in Alaska. 你不是一种换到不同生态位或环境里就会死掉的动物，比如被放到阿拉斯加的狮子。 You are a human who learns, builds, and adapts so that they can thrive in any niche. 你是一个会学习、会建设、会适应的人，因此可以在任何细分领域里成长兴旺。 I operate by two principles when picking a topic: 我选择主题时遵循两条原则： - Is it something that I find important or worth sharing? Because by simply filtering an idea through my perspective and not overthinking myself to death, it becomes unique. I have a specific identity, and I’m probably not going to speak to soccer moms in their 40s no matter how hard I try. By just talking about what I find worth sharing, it will attract the people I can impact the most. - 这是我认为重要或值得分享的东西吗？ 因为只要让一个想法经过我的视角过滤，同时不把自己过度思考到寸步难行，它就会变得独特。我有自己特定的身份，无论多么努力，我大概都不会吸引那些四十多岁、孩子踢足球的妈妈。只谈论我认为值得分享的事物，自然会吸引那些最可能被我影响的人。 - Is it packaged or framed in a way that grabs attention? Because as a writer, that’s what you do. You grab attention, otherwise your writing doesn’t get read. The way you do that in today’s world is by studying what’s working on social media and applying the structure and principles to your hook, title, etc. - 它的包装或框架能抓住注意力吗？ 因为作为写作者，这正是你要做的事。你必须抓住注意力，否则作品就不会有人读。在今天，做到这一点的方法，是研究社交媒体上哪些内容正在奏效，再把其中的结构和原则运用到你的钩子、标题等部分。 This is social media growth in a nutshell. 简而言之，这就是社交媒体增长。 Many people want to feel like they’re a super creative writer, and they want to be super authentic bro, so they don’t package their ideas in a way that the market actually wants, so they never get traction on their work. In other words, they never get paid, because it feels icky to them, so they continue working on someone else’s dreams so their boss can get paid. They want to impact people so badly yet refuse to do the one thing that allows that. They see it as sacrificing a part of their identity rather than acquiring a skill that increases their usefulness. 很多人想让自己感觉像一个极富创造力、又无比“真实”的写作者，兄弟，所以他们不肯用市场真正想要的方式包装自己的想法，作品也就始终得不到关注。换句话说，他们永远赚不到钱——因为他们觉得那样做很恶心——于是继续为别人的梦想工作，让老板赚钱。他们如此渴望影响别人，却拒绝去做那件真正能让影响发生的事。他们把这看成牺牲自己的一部分身份，而不是学习一种能提升自身价值的技能。 The simplest way to do this is as follows: 做到这一点最简单的方法如下： Before you write, research what’s working on social media. 动笔之前，先研究社交媒体上哪些内容正在奏效。 Because that shows you what the market is already paying attention to. 因为这会告诉你，市场已经在关注什么。 You can do this just by scrolling social media and saving posts that are doing well, or you can use a research tool for it that pulls all top-performing posts into one place. 你可以浏览社交媒体并收藏表现良好的帖子，也可以使用研究工具，把所有高表现帖子集中到一个地方。 As an example, this letter is titled “The writing system that saved my brain (and my future).” 举个例子，这封信的标题是“The writing system that saved my brain (and my future)”（拯救了我的大脑，也拯救了我未来的写作系统）。 I had previously seen this post in the Discover feed of Eden and saved it to one of my boards, it’s called “The Notebook System That Saved My Brain.” 我之前在 Eden 的 Discover 信息流里看到过一篇帖子，并把它保存到了自己的一个看板中；它的标题是“The Notebook System That Saved My Brain”（拯救了我的大脑的笔记本系统）。 In other words, I saw what people already signaled that they wanted, took the topic I wanted to write about, and merged the two together. This is when you use a research / inspiration library tool like Eden（https://eden.so/）, or you can scroll social media manually and attempt to find high-performing posts. 换句话说，我先看见人们已经用行动表明自己想要什么，再拿出我想写的主题，把两者融合在一起。这时候，你可以使用像 Eden 这样的研究／灵感库工具（https://eden.so/），也可以手动浏览社交媒体，尝试寻找表现出色的帖子。 2) Create One Project For The Entire Week 2）为整整一周建立一个项目 I post one newsletter a week on Substack. 我每周在 Substack 发布一期 Newsletter。 That long-form piece gets posted to X articles, turns into a soft YouTube script, and the YouTube video gets uploaded to all podcast platforms. 这篇长文会被发布成 X 文章，再改成一份较为松散的 YouTube 脚本，而制作出的 YouTube 视频还会上传到所有播客平台。 I’ve tried twice a week, but my brain operates better when it has time to think and gather inspiration around one topic. 我试过每周发布两次，但当大脑有时间围绕一个主题思考和收集灵感时，它运转得更好。 My entire week revolves around the topic. When I read a book, ideas stick out that fit the topic. When I listen to a video on YouTube, the same happens. Ideas come to mind for that topic. 我的整个星期都围绕这个主题展开。读书时，与主题契合的观点会自动凸显出来；听 YouTube 视频时也是如此。围绕这个主题的想法会不断浮现。 Those idea become research for the topic I’m writing about, and the newsletter becomes the source of social posts for all platforms. 这些想法会成为我写作主题的研究素材，而 Newsletter 则成为所有平台社交帖子的素材源头。 In other words, I write one piece a week, and it becomes content for all platforms. This has drastically improved my thinking, because it isn’t scattered all the time. 换句话说，我每周写一篇文章，再把它变成所有平台的内容。这样做极大地改善了我的思考，因为我的注意力不再总是四处分散。 This is my entire idea capture and content system. 这就是我完整的想法捕捉与内容系统。 What do you actually do here? 实际应该怎么做？ Create one place a week to save ideas to. 每周建立一个专门保存想法的地方。 I create one board in Eden (which I talk about a lot because it’s the only app that can do all of this in one place), and that’s where I jot down ideas, paste social links, add articles and videos, and even upload books as PDFs so I can ask AI to pull ideas out of them so I don’t have to go searching manually for them, or even worry about highlighting them. 我会在 Eden 里创建一个看板（我经常提到它，因为这是唯一能在一个地方完成上述所有事情的应用）。我在那里记下想法、粘贴社交媒体链接、添加文章和视频，甚至把书籍以 PDF 形式上传。这样，我可以让 AI 从中提取观点，不必再亲自到处查找，甚至不用操心划重点。 I’m writing this, right now, in that board. 此时此刻，我就是在那个看板里写这篇文章。 With all ideas and inspiration in one place, it makes it easy to have this open as I write, or just create a chat and connect a post, PDF, or link to it to pull the idea out of it. 所有想法和灵感集中在一处，我写作时可以很方便地把它放在旁边；也可以直接创建一个聊天，把帖子、PDF 或链接接入其中，从里面提取想法。 If I post ideas when I’m away from my computer, I just save them to the board on mobile, like a YouTube video I watched, and then I can chat with it to get the idea I wanted out of it. 如果我离开电脑时碰到想法，就直接用手机把它们保存到看板里——比如看过的一段 YouTube 视频——之后再与它对话，提取我想要的观点。 Note: I do have multiple boards called “Favorite Ideas,” “Validated Ideas,” and “Personal Ideas.” 注意：我确实还建了多个看板，分别叫作“Favorite Ideas”（喜爱的想法）、“Validated Ideas”（经过验证的想法）和“Personal Ideas”（个人想法）。 I save posts I love to favorite ideas. 我把自己喜欢的帖子保存到“喜爱的想法”。 I save posts that have gone viral to validated ideas. 我把已经走红的帖子保存到“经过验证的想法”。 I save personal notes or thoughts to personal ideas. 我把个人笔记或思考保存到“个人想法”。 A mix of all of these creates a great piece of writing (yes, your favorite writers research, save inspiration like their lives depend on it, and mash it together to write their pieces). 把这些东西混合起来，就能创作出一篇优秀的文章。（没错，你喜欢的那些作者也会做研究，会像性命攸关一样保存灵感，再把它们揉合起来写成作品。） I can chat with any of those to give me headline variations, angles, or post ideas that I can then pop into the scheduler. 我可以与任何一个看板对话，让它提供不同版本的标题、切入角度或帖子点子，再把它们放进内容排期工具。 3) Outline, Write, and Repurpose 3）列提纲、写作与再利用 I am not going to go into the actual writing process. That would take an entire bootcamp（https://eden.so/bootcamp） to go over. 我不打算深入讲解实际的写作过程，因为这需要用一整套训练营（https://eden.so/bootcamp）才能讲完。 However, someone broke down my best newsletters and turned it into a prompt that helps you outline your own in an engaging way（https://app.eden.so/w/dan-s-workspace/prompts/3a15e1ef-3026-4f55-94ed-8f134448de6f）. It will ask about what you want to write, then help you gather ideas that can go into the outline. 不过，有人拆解了我最出色的几期 Newsletter，并把它做成了一个帮助你以引人入胜的方式拟定文章提纲的 prompt（https://app.eden.so/w/dan-s-workspace/prompts/3a15e1ef-3026-4f55-94ed-8f134448de6f）。它会询问你想写什么，再帮助你收集可以放进提纲的想法。 As mentioned, here’s what I do: 如前所述，我的做法是： - I create a board or place to save posts, ideas, and videos (this is the research portion of my writing) - 我创建一个看板或其他地方，用来保存帖子、想法和视频（这是我写作中的研究环节） - I create an outline document to start organizing the ideas - 我创建一份提纲文档，开始整理这些想法 - I have all of that open next to me while I write - 写作时，我会把所有这些材料都打开，放在手边 - I post that as a Substack and X article - 我把成稿发布为 Substack 和 X 文章 - I block out an hour 1 day a week to record that as a YouTube video - 我每周抽出一天、留出一小时，把它录成 YouTube 视频 - That YouTube video goes to all podcast platforms - 这段 YouTube 视频会发布到所有播客平台 - I use the article to generate post ideas throughout the week - 整个星期里，我都会用这篇文章生成帖子的点子 - I promote my Substack a few times a week under my other content so it grows - 我每周会在其他内容下方推广几次自己的 Substack，让它持续增长 That’s the entire system. 这就是完整的系统。 Walking, reading, and about 60 minutes a day of writing forms the foundation for some of the most future-proof skills: learning, thinking, and earning (independently). 散步、阅读，以及每天大约 60 分钟的写作，构成了几项最能抵御未来变化的技能之基础：学习、思考，以及（独立）赚钱。 I’ll leave it at that, and am happy to expand more on this in future articles. 这次就先讲到这里；以后我很乐意在文章里继续展开。 – Dan ——Dan If you want these letters sent directly to you, so you don't miss them if the algorithm doesn't show you them, join the list here - here's another article you can read as well.（https://letters.thedankoe.com/p/the-most-profitable-skill-of-the?r=of0ip&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web） 如果你希望这些信直接发送给你，以免算法没有把它们推给你而错过内容，可以在这里加入邮件列表——这里还有另一篇文章可供阅读。（https://letters.thedankoe.com/p/the-most-profitable-skill-of-the?r=of0ip&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web）