(Kalid from BetterExplained here, thanks for posting this!)
The impact of evergreen content was my biggest eye-opener. The more time, the better, but don't beat yourself up about "lost time". Just start today. Before we know it, 2, 5, 10 years will have passed.
This worked for blog posts, starting an email newsletter, selling books on Amazon, making YouTube videos (for standard math concepts), design improvements to the site, etc. You plant the seed once and it bears fruit for years.
Really glad it resonated. It's hard to overstate gentleness with yourself, I remember the instant last year when I forgave myself for mistakes / regrets that had long bothered me. I was walking outside at night, and literally felt an evaporation from the back of my head. Tension I didn't know I had just disappeared.
It reminds me of a Greek proverb which goes a step further with time: "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
The impact of evergreen content was my biggest eye-opener. The more time, the better, but don't beat yourself up about "lost time". Just start today. Before we know it, 2, 5, 10 years will have passed.
This worked for blog posts, starting an email newsletter, selling books on Amazon, making YouTube videos (for standard math concepts), design improvements to the site, etc. You plant the seed once and it bears fruit for years.