Dickie started writing online in January of 2020 - and doing so is by far the best decision he’s ever made.

But for the first 9 months, he was spinning his wheels. He followed all of the conventional advice: "write a weekly blog post on your website so you can own your platform, write about only things you want to write about" and all of that other common advice.

The problem? There was no feedback loop. The weekly cadence was too slow to work through all of the ideas in his head. And since barely anyone was reading them, he had no clue what he could improve or what his readers were looking for.

So Dickie needed to try something radically different. If he was going to keep writing, he needed to tighten his feedback loops.

This meant going from publishing 1000-word weekly blog posts to posting short, 250-word posts.

And instead of publishing into the void of his own blog, he would post them on Twitter, where he knew there was aggregated attention.

And so off he went. Dickie challenged himself to write and publish something daily, every day for 30 days. 28 days in, the results were pretty good.

His perfectionism? Squashed. His writing speed? 10x faster. His feedback loops? And damn it felt good to work through the backlog of ideas in his head.

And during his personal 30 day challenge, he grew his audience by over 500%. Dickie made his first dollar on the internet. And he woke up every morning excited to write, publish, and improve.