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#173: Lessons from Geniuses, Billionaires, and Tinkerers

The Tim Ferriss Show

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How Do You Edit When You've Got a Brain Dump of Text?

My preferred approach is to edit myself as i write, and do a lot of polishing that really would be better served after i got the words out. Would you kick out nine thousand words of session? Ahi, sometimes yes. But there's ideas to work with. I got the ideas down. More typical session would probably be 700, an 50 to two thousand words. The usually the less work i had to do on editing. Often it would take three times as long as if id just barfed out three thousand the less grist for the mill to work with in the first place.

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