“Mikolay,” my college cross country coach used to say, “When a kid on a bike approaches a turn, you don’t say, well, considering the forces of gravity, momentum, and friction, coupled with centripetal acceleration, you’ll need to angle the bike twenty degrees opposite the direction of motion…”
“No! You just say CANT THE F-IN’ BIKE!”
Sometimes things are easier in practice than they are in theory.
A month ago on Twitter I ran into Jack Butcher. Had never heard of him before but was impressed by the way he thinks. We exchanged DMs, got on the phone for 30 minutes, and talked about building things and connecting with people.
For years I’ve been seeing patterns on Twitter and Instagram. Jack handed me a decoder ring to the internet. It was as if I were drawing a parabola from memory and someone handed me the potential energy equation.
Practical hack: freely share practical hacks with others.
Pull those together into a story about what you’re learning. How you’re growing. That’s your process. What practice are you following?
Then there’s the high order bit. Freely share macro/meta thoughts.
That’s your domain, what you can speak about with authority. What are you adding to the conversation?
Mix the two — hacks and insights — and help others.
Closing thought from my college coach, Al Cantello:
“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but the freedom to roam was! Reinvent yourself!”