The blank page problem
The hardest part of making anything isn't the making. It's the starting.
The lesson
A blank page asks you to create something from nothing, and nothing is heavy. But give yourself a rough draft to react to, and everything changes: you're not creating anymore, you're editing. Ask AI for a bad first version on purpose. Crossing things out is so much easier than conjuring them.
Try it — 60 seconds
Give me a rough first draft of the thing I've been putting off — a letter, a plan, a post. Make it imperfect on purpose. I'll tell you what's wrong, and we'll fix it together.
Copy it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — whichever you already use. Fill in the brackets with your real life.
Watch out
The draft is scaffolding, not the building. If you ship the first version untouched, you skipped the part where it becomes yours.