Write Everyday

Posted because this was shockingly relevant to writing software and bootstrapping:

>Nobody is going to steal your idea

>Most people think "If I could just get the right IDEA, then the writing would flow." That's like saying "If Nolan Ryan would just throw me the right pitch, then I could hit home runs for the Yankees." Before you get the chance to face the big pitch from Nolan Ryan, you have to hit 200,000 other pitches. Every day. No exceptions.

Best habit I've ever formed is to write ideas down as soon as you have them, from this Jack Dorsey talk: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2635

Funny, I recently read Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, and came across his class at BYU on creative writing [1]. I was shocked how applicable his lessons were to software development / startups (ideas are cheap was one of his main points in his first lecture). I think its a good idea to occasionally take a look at other seemingly unrelated professions and see what you can learn.

[1] http://www.writeaboutdragons.com/