Writing for One Person
"Writing for the crowd breeds generic performance. Writing for one friend breeds honesty."
When you sit down to write for an audience, your voice changes. You become performative, worried about how your words will be received by thousands of strangers. You start using generic advice to please everyone.
The solution is to write each note to a single, specific friend. Think of one person who is struggling with distraction, and write directly to them. Explain your thought as if you were sitting across from them with a coffee.
This single constraint removes performance anxiety. It makes your writing warm, specific, and direct. The irony is that by writing for one person, your words become more resonant for thousands.
J.C.