Beliefs

• We believe writing is hard
• We believe writing about an idea is the first step towards understanding.
• We believe it’s better to write something untidy unpolished and raw than to write nothing at all.

This is the way:

• Share links only with someone you know, and only directly to the post.
• Write in such a way that you don’t worry about scruffyness, but write about things you care about
• We write under pseudonyms to remove any barrier to writing that would come from embarrassment.

Principles

• Before all things, write
• Don’t stop writing because of how it sounds
• Don’t stop writing because of how it reads
• Don’t stop writing because you’re unsure of your point. It may come. It may not.
• The finish work is for elsewhere. Here, we write to get ideas out of our heads, into words so we can look at them, and evaluate.
• Writing is hard. It’s better to try and fail, than to wait for the perfect words.
• Getting started is the hardest part. Often we’ll avoid starting because we can’t get the right words out.