How to Write Online with David Perell

David Perell explains everything you need to get started writing online. You'll learn the basics of writing clearly, organizing ideas, and growing your online audience.
If you're interested in writing online, you'll like his 7-day email writing course: ageofleverage.com/course
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David's Online Writing Email Course: ageofleverage.com/course

[@brucedemeester8547]

Timestamps from David's presentation: 14:19 - Three Points Of Focus 14:34 - How To Improve Your Ideas (You need a note-taking system) 14:51 - The Capture Habit 15:14 - Three Important Avenues For Saving Ideas 16:20 - Great ideas of David: (1) Modern writing isn't created. It's assembled. (2) You don't need to be original. (3) As the number of notes you have to grow linearly, the number of connections you can make between them increases exponentially. 17:33 - What Ideas Should You Save? 18:45 - Hot Notebooks 19:04 - Cold Notebooks 20:52 - Explaining The Content Triangle 25:13 - The Use Of Voice Transcription 26:28 - How To Improve Your Writing 26:41 - Myths Of Writing Education 30:35 - Introducing: The CLEAR Sentence Method 34:47 - introducing: The Story Roller-Coaster 36:09 - Introducing: FAST Writing Method 38:45 - SLOW Writing (The School Method) 39:22 - How To Grow Your Audience 39:50 - Myths Of Audience Building 44:00 - Building A Personal Monopoly 45:27 - Defining Your Personal Monopoly (Skill-stacking + examples of this) 48:06 - Recap 49:30 - Are you still having doubts about writing? Listen to these encouraging words of David. Thank you for this, David! If I had a teacher like you in college, I definitely stayed in college then.

[@ridwanslife]

This comment needs to be pinned! Thanks!

[@wmng13]

Can i also add these timestamps for FAQs 55:22 - FAQ 1: What changed in your approach between the KZbin failures and your successful writing? 56:36 - FAQ 2: How do you not get overwhelmed by abundance of information and compress that efficiently and use that to create ideas? 58:50 - FAQ 3: How do you get pass the fear of sharing ideas and also the idea if someone might steal that idea? 1:01:36 - What does the experience of the community looks like? 1:03:36 - Should you wait until you're and expert before you start writing? 1:05:22 - 5 x 5 rule to become specific for your Personal Monopoly

[@Wilson-br5fq]

appreciate it !

[@kamdengianni3352]

Instablaster...

[@8020]

+The world rewards not the best ideas, but the ones who are best at communicating those ideas. Improve Your Ideas with a note-taking system: •Cold Notebooks for ideas that you are passively interested in •Hot Notebooks for ideas you are actively working on. The Content Triangle: +Have a conversation and then share it via Email, then publish a blog post. Then you get the 3rd series of feedback. +Have a conversation with someone and use transcription software to record the conversation. Then organize those thoughts into a post. Write CLEAR Sentences: •Create a Rhythm •Link your Sentences •Eliminate Anything that is Confusing •Add Colourful Detail •Remove Unnecessary Words +Fast writing is writing 1st and researching 2nd. +Grow your audience on open platforms: •Twitter •Medium •LinkedIn ...And build your relationships on owned ones: •Email •Website •PodCast +Expertise is a ladder. There are 8 rungs. People at the top are the PhDs. The PhDs are writing for people on rung 6 and 7. People on rung 1 don't benefit from people on rung 8. The level 2/3/4 need 5/6. We can only talk to people within 2 rungs. + If you are interested in history. Break it down. What are the 5 things you are interested in within history? The American Civil war, The Scottish Enlightenment, Australian Aborigines, etc. Within each of those 5 things, what is the thing that you are the most interested in? And then write about that.

[@bricetrophardy]

Feels like Roam Research saves the complexity of cold/hot notebooks. Focus on capturing notes, and Roam will do the rest (if you sync it with Readwise for example. To go a little further, use a system to review notes, as Zettelkasten (or other) : read the notes, sum them up in your own words, and tag everything in Roam. Then when you want to write something, create a new page for the project, and collect from your database in Roam.

[@uascertpilot486]

David! You are absolutely Awesome!!! Thank You!!! 😀😀😀

[@jaymathews183]

Love this so much thank you

[@alexandregagnard]

Mind-blowing! This was really helpful for my writing. Thank you so much David

[@debbiesedgley100]

Thank you David 🙏 Really eye opening. I've been writing online for some time and am now moving my niche, so this has come at the perfect time. Had a system before but this is another level! Have completed BASB so going to utilise this alongside your amazing system here. Thank you so much for sharing this. So much gold. Love the use of audio recorder and transcription for getting the thoughts out of your head and into a very usable format.

[@ashvanths3214]

going to actually start writing and this is the first advice i get .. thanks a lot man lots of insight

[@botbot3698]

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the idea of owning your "online real estate"' something similar to your "personal monopoly", through developing a practice of writing on the internet.

[@projectfinance]

This is exactly what I need. Great content, David! I hope to use your methods to increase my writing productivity, clarity, and ultimately put out more KZbin videos.

[@DavidPerellChannel]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Sellingbeachproperty]

David, this was great. Thank you so much. Every single thing is useful!

[@Anna-du9bm]

Thank you, David! Absolutely fantastic and inspiring!

[@NishanthaU]

David your content so damn legit!! Thanks for putting this out here! I’m creating a series on my channel to help dyslexics become smarter using technology so they could develop their “personal monopoly”. Would love to do a collaboration/interview with about your course and ideas around building a personal monopoly.

[@chukwuebukacollins949]

Hello Nishantha, I love what you want to do to help dyslexics being an educator myself. May I know your KZbin channel so I could follow your thoughts? Thanks

[@NishanthaU]

@@chukwuebukacollins949 Awe man appreciate that! The channel is called how to dyslexia.

[@marisandifer5498]

I love your work. You are building something special. Keep going.

[@botbot3698]

This is really good, exactly what I was looking for

[@rjyoungling220]

Most Advanced Yet Acceptable is from the famous designer Raymond Loewy

[@bengreeley5681]

We need storytelling tutorials David !

[@stevenrensch3731]

How do you get the connection from the open site to the owned one? Good video. Thanks.

[@teeI0ck]

👋 this video is very helpful and informative. 🧗‍♂️ its showing an accurate and deep understanding; great perceptive. 💡 Muito obrigado for all the insightful information 🤝

[@josephsabio]

What do I do if I can’t afford the course now? I really want to learn and already have a blog. I just don’t have the savings yet.

[@jbcarthy]

Hey David Love the course How long do you recommend a blog post should be as a general rule

[@CrowMorder]

Sorry for the time. Depends on what you write about. I would say from 1000 to 4000 words. If you really feel like it or really love the thing split the post (my experience only)

[@progresswme]

Man, I so want to get into WOP. Badly.

[@chenvictor8]

Do you offer support for screenwriting

[@rollypolypress]

Hi David, I just wrote my first personal piece using Siri .. what was the dictation app you spoke of?

[@plannergirl777]

Can you tell us why, despite the fact that you have been told by many people that you were not good at writing, you made a decision to pursue being a writer as your career? You mentioned you failed to be a youtuber, but still there are a lot more alternatives out there other than writers and content creators. What made you decide to stick with writing?

[@tintianoTV]

39:20

[@stevenrensch3731]

How does make money doing online writing?

[@bengreeley5681]

Your mom edited your articles starting out? Same

[@ridwanslife]

He's using the standard webinar template. Get to the points mate!

[@marisandifer5498]

I think you might be Seth Godin's love child. You remind me so much of him. You should ask your mom...

[@raman8609]

Why this is even free? Damn