Digital postcards
A digital postcard is a recurring (typically weekly) newsletter or blog post about what you are already doing, thinking, and feeling.
The goal of digital postcards is to optimize for consistency not quality. Make them a light lift. Keep it fast, easy and fun.
This way, you can maintain a consistent cadence while still taking time to work on longer form, higher quality pieces.
Postcard information capture
Start a spreadsheet and each week start capturing nuggets of inspiration like this. This will help give you something to write about each week.
- Your latest writing
- Summarize your article
- What's top of mind?
- Curate your best social posts
- Expand on a simple idea
- Coolest thing you've learned
- Article excerpt
- Summarize a paper
- Best thing you read
- Recap a conversation
- Summarize a podcast
- Recommend an article
- share an internal note or piece of writing