Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
The Pen Collection
If there is anything I will steal from you it will be your pen. That is, if you have one worth stealing. I collect pens. I haven’t quite got to the upper end of Mont Blanc and Waterman, but there is time.
At the top is a handmade fountain pen that my wife bought me for Christmas. It’s the fastest thing that runs on ink. This is for writing for the sake of writing when the gap between thought and written word has to be really short.
Back to Writing
The books and web pages I read affect me a lot. I use them as tools sometimes. If I read a book on productivity, I become more productive while I am reading it. If I read a book on digital photography, I see pictures everywhere. If I read a book on design, I notice every logo and sign. The knowledge sticks with me afterwards, but the act of reading keeps it in the forefront of my mind.
And, if I read about programming and computers, I become a robot and start writing really shitty articles.
Making Ideas Real
I never can tell when an idea is going to occur to me. One time it’s while I’m driving to work. The next, while I am mowing the lawn. But I can almost guarantee it will happen when I least expect it.
So I just started expecting it all the time and carrying a notebook along with me. Now it’s a Moleskine. I started with one of those 6 for a dollar cardboard flip notebook. But an idea written down in that notebook was responsible for the first thousand dollar month I had online. And it happened within a month after I started carrying the thing.
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