Why Great Posts Stay Trapped in My Head

I suddenly realized that it’s way easier for me to think and write posts in my head. I can spend hours making plans, imagining what I’ll say, how I’ll write it, what the story will be, what jokes I’ll make — but it’s much harder to actually say it all out loud or write it down.

Seems like there are some internal barriers. To get up, sit down, and write text, you need some strong impulse. Recently, after hearing yet another piece of advice to record ideas and notes by voice, I put a voice recorder on my phone’s lock screen. And here we are, several months later, and I haven’t recorded a single note. 🥲

Then recently I got Limitless. It’s a pendant with a voice recorder that constantly records everything and transcribes it to text via a Bluetooth app. They started with an app that recorded your entire desktop, then they made the pendant. For me, it turned out to be super useful, primarily for calls and meetings, and secondly — for therapy sessions. Very convenient to highlight needed fragments and discuss them with GPT, make summaries, and do everything else you can do with text in GPT.

Today I thought: damn, now I can start dictating my awesome post straight into Limitless — and couldn’t do anything at all. Because the post is in my head and in my fantasies — it’s very beautiful, big, interesting, but when I try to express it in words, it turns into mush.

And even this post I could barely dictate into GPT, not the voice recorder, because I decided it would be short, and I didn’t plan it in advance, just wrote it quickly.

And those truly brilliant interesting stories might never see the light of day. Ever happened to you?