Writing Habit = Clarity Habit

I'm taking on a challenge from Dickie Bush: ship 30 mini-essays in 30 days.
Why on earth would I spend 1 hour per day writing, editing, publishing... especially when that means I'll spend 23 hours agonizing over what to write about?
Because a writing habit is a thinking habit, a clarity habit.

I ended 2020 like many of us, with two 18-wheelers full of pivots, lessons , and opportunities.
All in my head.

Publishing forces us to clarify something to a different level of coherence.

It makes us focus on one thing.
Like a mental oven on a popcorn kernel.

It also gives new purpose when we listen to you, social media, articles, podcasts, books.
When we notice something illuminating...
Worth sitting with...
Worth writing on until the kernel in the mental oven pops...

That process accelerates the internalization of the idea.
So we don't forget. And if we do... at least it is written down somewhere to stumble on later.

PS. Thinking I’ll call these essays "lightbulb moments" or 💡 for short. What do you think?