# Put up the Writer-Signal

> What I've Been Thinking About Lately #83

**Published by:** [WIBTAL](https://wibtal.com/)
**Published on:** 2026-04-01
**URL:** https://wibtal.com/83

## Content

I've spent the past two months at Network School (NS). It's a community near Singapore where ambitious people come from all over the world to build, think, and live together. I've met a lot of interesting people at NS. But the two most thoughtful were both writers. When they left, I kept thinking: how do I meet more people like them? It's not a coincidence that writers are thoughtful. Writing well requires thinking well. The craft selects for depth. So if I want to meet more writers, the answer is obvious: become someone writers want to talk to. And writers want to talk to people thinking deeply about the same things they are. I've written before about why everyone should write WIBTALs. But there's a fourth reason: To find your people. If you put enough quality thinking into the world, it acts like a bat-signal for other people thinking about the same things, calling them out of the dark to encourage and/or challenge your ideas. This is important to me, so I'm committing to publishing a WIBTAL once a week for the next 12 weeks. If I don't I will burn 1,000 USDC (send it somewhere so it can't be accessed). This post can be used to hold me accountable to my word. Happy writing :)

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