🔥 1000

I just hit 1000 days of daily writing!

I was a writer before I was an indie hacker. But the writing as a keystone habit had definitely helped me in the latter:

Living a reflective life

Reflect on progress of my products, myself as an entrepreneur, person. This was the original intention around Lifelog actually - a tool to help me live a more reflective life. I wrote monthly recaps, massive yearly reviews, and many more random reflections. Over time, it helped me realised many things about myself. When it comes to personal growth, nothing quite beats setting aside 30min a day to reflect and write.

Write to think

Write to think through hard challenges, brainstorm ideas, figure out solutions. Over the years I’ve slowly moved more and more towards writing it out to think it through. Most of my posts here had been in that spirit. Lifelog is the intellectual sandbox where I play with words, ideas, problems, before executing it out in the wild.

Emotional regulation

Writing to vent helps relieve stress. It’s amazing how the intensity of what I write about decreases once I write it down. It can be anything—positive or negative. Yes, surprise surprise – even positive, pleasant experiences get less intense after writing it down.

Better marketing

Daily writing practice means better marketing copy, better tweets, better SEO articles etc. It’s super understated, because it’s almost imperceptible, the progress from just writing 200 words a day. But it’s 1% compounding at its best.

Write once, publish thrice

So many tweets, blogs, newsletter articles had been repurposed from my daily writings. The content flywheel often originates right here in Lifelog. It’s a key hub in my content pipeline for sure. Sometimes I lift stuff here to my tweet. Other times, my tweet becomes inspiration for my posts. It feeds each other in a virtuous cycle. Like, how this post was originally a tweet, which I expanded on to this post. Maybe parts of this post can become a tweet next, or the whole thing becomes an issue on my Substack newsletter.

So many more little benefits to daily writing that’s too numerous to list. But you know what’s the best part?

Writing had brought me many friends, many of whom I’ve never even met in real life. Like all you guys here. It’s crazy how far we’ve come. The only other writing community I know with streaks like that is on the OG 750words.com. Pushing the streak to 1000 alongside #TeamStreak homies @peterdannock and @therealbrandonwilson had been so… great, in a social and comaraderie sort of way. My heart feels warm everytime I think about how we all journeyed alongside each other through the years. It’s like we know each other, yet we’ve never met. At least that’s how I feel – I think people here probably know me better than my in real life friends.

So, at 1000, a toast to friendship here. 🍻

Onwards!