Ryan Frederick tried writing at different times and places while working on the Founder's Manual. After a month of experimenting, he found his rhythm: early morning at a coffee shop, where the ambient noise helped him focus instead of distract.
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That's actually evolved over time. When I first started working on the Founder's Manual, it was laborious because I didn't yet know what the most conducive environment and conditions were for me to be an effective writer. Yeah. And so for the for the first month or so after signing the contract to do the Founder's Manual, I was really sort of adrift because I would try to write in the morning and I would try to write mid-morning and I would try to write at every time of the day. And I would try to write with music on and I would try to write in complete silence and I would try to write, I'd take my Mac to a park bench And then what I realized was my best writing for the Founder's Manual happened first thing in the morning at a coffee shop. And I needed the white noise of the coffee shop to help me focus on what I was writing. And for me, it almost acted like a funnel of taking my focus and my energy of acknowledging but ignoring what was happening at the coffee shops to then be able to write well.