Nobody Cares

368 days ago I shared my first blog post.

One week prior I didn’t know how to build a website or what Wordpress was. (Started with WP, now using beehiiv 🐝)

I was afraid to put my writing on the internet: What would people think? Could I get in trouble for sharing my opinion? What if I got canceled? What if my manager finds this?

I was nervous but I told myself two things that helped me get over that hump:

1. You’re not going to die.

2. You’re overthinking it. No one cares.

If you’re worried about what other people think of you, I assure you: they don’t care as much as you think.

The most successful people I look up to world all had some medium where they shared their thoughts and gained a reputation. That was a blog, instagram, a newsletter, Linkedin, or even twitter. They had a way to share their thoughts, opinions, and gain credibility:

• Sam Parr: The Anti-MBA, My First Million

• Scott Galloway: No Mercy, No Malice

• Shaan Puri: Twitter, My First Million

• Tyler Denk: Big Desk Energy

• Jesse Itzler: Instagram

• Paul Graham Essays

I wanted that to gain credibility, distribution, and trust. Just like all these guys did.

So I wrote down three topics that I could go on and on about. Then I just started writing. The first ones didn’t flow that great. They were way longer than they needed to be. But it got me over the hump to just start.

I had under 10 blogs posted by June of 2024. I decided to challenge myself and take it one step further: I wanted to do a weekly newsletter.

Its really easy to say you’re picking up a new habit, but it’s even easier to let it slip and actually never do it. So I just shut the hell up and just started writing. Writing about whatever I found interesting or exciting. Since doing that I’ve been able to grow this to almost 100 people reading what I think is interesting. Every week. That’s nuts, and it’s really fucking cool. I mean it.

This will be my 30th week in a row. I know you’re going to laugh at this, but I’ll say it anyways… staying consistent with this was hard. I thought it would be easy to just fire off a newsletter every week on whatever I found interesting. The more I shared this with people, I kept pouring more and more effort into it.

Each newsletter can take 3-4 hours/week to write. You know me. Once I start talking about something I’m passionate about, I don’t stop. My year in review took 8 hours to write because I just loved doing it.

I wrote posts on my phone on the plane back from Mexico City. I delivered countless type-o’s and grammatical errors that my roommate selflessly totals up for me on a weekly basis (love you for that, big E 😘).

I fucked up my sleep schedule dozens of times because I wanted this to hit your inbox at 6am every. Damn. TUESDAY!

And you know what….

I’m going to keep doing it too. (Perhaps more systemized in the future)

What started as a small side project to get good at writing as turned into an obsessive hobby that people laugh at me for. So why am I going to keep doing it? Because I love this shit.

I mean it when I say you opening my damn emails with the disco guy in the subject line means a lot to me. Because when you text me about how much you liked the 3-4 hours of passion I vomited into a silly newsletter. It doesn’t feel so silly anymore.

Speaking of Tyler. I got a shoutout…

To anyone reading who is thinking about getting started on anything new they want to try. Just start. It’s going to look like shit in the beginning. Just keep going. It won’t stay like that for long.

Thank you for being a part of this. Now I’m going to hike a mountain and cold plunge for the new year. As one does…

You’re Awesome,

Jared

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Made it to the bottom? Nice. I know what you’re thinking: he’s gunna ask me to share this with a friend again…

Yeah and I know if you don’t because I obsessively check the subscriber count despite what my therapist told me: “you have better things to worry about”

They’re right. Want to feed my addictive personality anyways? Get someone to subscribe and I’ll personally shout you out in my next newsletter. Get 3 people to subscribe in a week and I’ll send you proof of me running a half marathon.

They can subscribe using this link here 🙌🏻