Why I Go for Quantity Over Quality in My Writing
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My newsletter last week wasn’t very good, but I published it anyway. Here's why.
My newsletter last week wasn’t very good. To be fair, wasn’t, like, horrible either. But I wasn’t very proud of it. Last Sunday afternoon I was sleep-deprived and beat from travel and somehow felt jetlagged even though I hadn’t changed time zones between New York and Detroit. And I’d foolishly put off writing my piece till Sunday afternoon, even during what I’d known was going to be a very busy week. I was a little embarrassed to publish. But I sent that piece out anyway, without a second thought. Because with this newsletter, I’ve decided to err on the side of quantity over quality. And I…
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