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CraftAugust 14, 20265 min read

One idea, five posts, without repeating yourself

Most people post an idea once and move on. The idea was the expensive part; the second and third telling are nearly free.

Working out what you think takes an hour. Writing it down takes ten minutes. Then it goes out once, reaches a fraction of your audience, and the hour is spent.

The same idea from five angles

  1. 1The claim — say the thing plainly, in one post
  2. 2The evidence — the example that convinced you
  3. 3The objection — what somebody sensible would say against it, answered
  4. 4The how — the practical version, as steps
  5. 5The story — the time you learned it, which is the one people remember

Five posts, one idea, and nobody reads them as repetition — because four of them are about something else on the surface.

Five tellingsThe one that landed
One of the five will do far better than the others. You cannot tell which in advance.

Spread them out

Not five days in a row. Across a few weeks, mixed with other things, so the account reads like a mind rather than a campaign. The gap is also what lets you notice which telling worked.

Across networks, not just across time

The same idea is a paragraph on Threads, a carousel on Instagram, a spoken minute on TikTok and a long message on Telegram. Same idea, four native shapes — which is a different thing entirely from the same caption pasted four times.

Keep a list of ideas you have already had. Most people rewrite their best thought once a year by accident; a list turns that accident into a decision.

Stop watching the clock. Start drifting.

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