Write Screenshot Essays

By David Perell

You can profoundly change your life by publishing one Screenshot Essay per week. Get started, even if you don't have an audience. If your ideas are good, people will share them and you'll get discovered. Smart people will reach out to you; some will become friends, others will want to work with you. Writing online is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter where you live, how old you are, or what you do for a living. All that matters is the quality of your work. Don't just post your Screenshot Essays on X. Post them on a website so people can binge-read them. Most of what you write won't be a hit. That's okay. People will forget the misses, but remember the hits, and when they someday ask how you managed to write 10 incredible pieces, you can smile and tell them about all the duds you shipped along the way. One per week. Do it for a year, and do it wholeheartedly. Magical things will happen.