About 75 days ago I decided I wanted to start writing blog posts.

My goal was to try and write one every day of the week Monday-Friday as a kooky side project to formalize some of my ideas and build a catalogue of thoughts I could look back on, share, and maybe provide some value to others with.

Now looking back 2.5 months later I’ve managed to pen 50 of them. At about ~32,500 words in total so far that’s like half a Harry Potter book. Not sure if I’m proud of that.

Either way at this point I thought it might be nice to start categorizing them into themes to make it easier to go back through them later and find good stuff (or avoid bad stuff). And while I’m at it, it seemed fitting to highlight some of my favorites so far.

So with that, here’s my top blog posts from my first 50 broken down by category (caveat: some fit into multiple categories):

My Favorite Blog Posts by Category

1. Running Startups

1. The Founder’s Paradox: Focused vs. Opportunistic

2. How NOT to Launch a Business 

3. How to (Properly) Launch a Business

4. This is the Golden Era of AI + Startups

5. Startup Guide to Having Productive Meetings

6. My Startup Internal Communications Guide

7. Side Jobs Will Save Your Startup

8. You’ll Overspend in Your First Startup

9. Idea Graveyard: PMF Failures & Successes

2. Lead Gen + Growth

1. A Following Is Your Greatest Asset

2. How TikTok Got Me a $50K Client

3. On Surviving Writer’s Block

4. B2C Marketing Channel Tier List (Worst)

5. B2C Marketing Tier List (Best)

6. SEO for Dummies (Beginner’s Guide)

7. Showing Up In LLM Results (ChatGPT SEO)

8. What I Learned Blogging Every Day for a Month

9. Sales is Everything 

10. Email Marketing Guide (Best and Worst)

11. Case Study: A Perfect Sales Funnel

3. Life Hacks & Dumb Wisdom

1. Jeff Bezos’ Regret Minimization Framework

2. 3 Stages of Career: Learn, Earn, Legacy

3. 4 Reminders to Take More Risk

4. It’s Now About Being Right, It’s About Directionality

5. What Being 26 Taught Me

6. There’s No Such Thing As Adults

7. Invest in Good Mentors

8. Rainbow Days vs. B*tch Days

9. Jogging, Blogging, and Vlogging

10. On Being Patient

11. The Ovarian Lottery

12. Day Jobs Are Going Extinct

13. Overnight Success, the Men the Myth

14. World’s Most Efficient Being

15. Soviet Pencils

4. AI + Side Projects

1. Chicago AI Meetup October 2024 (Hype Cycle Litmus?)

2. Building a Coleslaw Maps App with AI (Part 1)

3. My AI Coleslaw Maps App May Be Dead (Part 2)

4. My AI Coleslaw Maps App is Back Alive (Part 3)

Hopefully this serves as a decent introduction into what this blog has become and the types of things I think about and where I am trying to add some value in the world.

I ranked them subjectively myself, so if you end up reading any of them I’d be curious to hear which ones you like most, too. And if you know any friends who might like one of them, the best way we can all help each other out is by sharing.

Lastly, if you were to do me any favors beyond reading or sharing, I’d ask that you go out and make something to share yourself with the world too. I’d be happy to see it.

Cheers, 🍻 

Ramsey