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Comparing football to writing.

In my recent conversation with Dickie, I brought up the topic of sports and what he learnt playing football and how he uses that discipline to write online.

Dickie answered with listing the framework that he used when starting college football AND writing on twitter:

In football, you spend a lot of time observing your betters and replicating their moves. When Dickie entered the writing arena, he asked himself the questions:

• what are the rules of the game
• who is playing it well
• what are they doing
• why are they doing good
• recognize what theyre doing from a unique perspective
• sprinkle your own secret sauce on it

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Dickie's writing journey:

Beginning of 2020, started writing a weekly newsletter as a forcing function

He was consuming books, podcasts - making notes and dumping them in Notion folder without much internalisation. He needed a forcing function to put the learnings into action.

He asked hiself: "How can I spend a little bit of extra time on things I'm already doing."

Now, his goal with writing is to meet other people and build things with tme. He believes there is not better way to do that than to put his thoughts out there and build an audience.