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It's only good to experiment if you're willing to kill what's not working.
After 7 daily flywheels, I'm killing the 30 days of flywheels project.
The best way to explain why is, fittingly, with a flywheel.
After 7 daily flywheels, I'm killing the 30 days of flywheels project.
The best way to explain why is, fittingly, with a flywheel.
I introduced a big time crunch on myself. A new flywheel every day for 30 days. I thought it would possible to write an interesting thread each day, but the reality was it was always going to be a time crunch.
I underestimated how long it would take for me to do each one. I found myself scrambling at 8pm to get my thread out for the day.
The result was pretty lackluster engagement. Unsurprisingly, the first one did the best and that was the one where I had done the thinking ahead of time.
Each subsequent day engagement deteriorated slowly. https://twitter.com/jakesing_/status/1334262759706517506
Each subsequent day engagement deteriorated slowly. https://twitter.com/jakesing_/status/1334262759706517506
With decreasing engagement, my motivation dipped, and my stress level rose. This caused me to leave it to the last minute even more, which exacerbated the time crunch.
Perhaps I'm giving up too soon, but I don't think so. It was a fun experiment, but I have learned that what I really enjoy is going deep on companies for my articles, not masquerading a hot take with a flywheel diagram.
One awesome thing that has come out of this is that I've found ~10 collaborators for upcoming threads. I plan to keep working with them and either turn the work into a more thoughtful thread, or even a full article.
In the meantime, I have other exciting stuff coming up in the Flywheel that I think makes more sense to focus on for now!
Stay tuned
PS grateful to @alexhughsam and @kadlac for encouraging me to do this!
Stay tuned
PS grateful to @alexhughsam and @kadlac for encouraging me to do this!
