How writing a newsletter helps me fight my imposter syndrome

In this tiny article, I want to share how writing a newsletter helps me fight my imposter syndrome

Lately, I've added a kind of changelog of all the new Service Design content I published in my newsletter. You can see examples of these changelog-newsletter here:

1. Service Design Newsletter of August 25th 2022

2. Service Design Newsletter of August 15th 2022
   

The next newsletter is going to be one full of content. In the draft, there are already: 

• 12 new Service Design Principles 

• 15 new Service Design questions and answers

• 4 behind-the-scenes blog posts.

And tomorrow is Saturday, which means I'll have a deep work session where I'm focused only on editing some other Service Design Principles.

This newsletter will be overwhelming 🌊

But I have to say that every time I add something to the newsletter draft, it gives me a positive reminder: 

"You've made progress, dude!". 

The fact that on the top, I summarise with numbers all things that are new or updated since the last newsletter shows me at a glance how productive I was. 

So I have to admit that I'm not sure if the person that gets the most out of the newsletter is the guy reading it or just me to heal my impostor syndrome. 

In fact, I think that this is true for most of my writing. I first write for myself, and it happens that it can be helpful for others too. I started writing my Service Design Principles to remember these ideas better and to keep practising a Service Design mindset daily. Now, these notes have become books that help others, but they started as something that helped me.