writing

I’ve been posting on LinkedIn consistently for a while now, and one of the quiet problems nobody really talks about is the formatting. You write something. It looks clean in your notes app or in a Google Doc. You paste it into LinkedIn and suddenly everything is a wall of text. The bolded texts changes…

What’s more important? To sound like you or the version of you that you think people want to see? This is an age old question if you think about it. We’ve always had to choose this. For example, when you want to impress a girl do you think “let me be 100% me” or do…

I struggle with calling myself a writer. I am not a formal writer. I am not an academic one either. Even though I’m starting master’s program I’m starting soon, I hesitate to call myself a “writer” But I love writing. I love thinking on paper and screens. Writing helps me clarify what I am actually…

I would sit and stare at the blank page, my cursor blinking at me with no end. Will it be good? Who’s going to read it? Why would they care? These thoughts stopped me every time. I’d open my laptop with the best intentions, crack my knuckles, and then… nothing. The white screen always won,…

I used to be a teacher. For two years, I was trained to speak only on what I knew. To source it. To back it up. To be sure. Every lesson plan required citations. Every claim needed evidence. If a student asked a question I couldn’t answer with absolute certainty, I learned to say “Let…