Key Takeaways
- The thing worth reading is specific, honest, and teaches something the reader did not know.
- Most content is not worth reading because it optimizes for findability rather than usefulness.
- The writer who edits aggressively produces content that is read completely more often.
Saim Abbasi has spent more than a decade building companies, investing in founders, and operating across global markets. The perspective here on how to write something worth reading comes directly from that experience rather than from theory.
The Core Insight
The specific elements that make written content worth the reader's time. This question surfaces regularly in conversations with founders and investors at Iron Key Capital, in the SA Media content, and in the global business relationships Saim has built. The answer changes depending on context but the framework for approaching it does not.
What This Means in Practice
Entrepreneurs and global businessmen who have operated across multiple markets develop a pattern recognition about this topic that single-market operators rarely develop. Saim Abbasi's experience founding SA Capital, building OptionsSwing, listing Asset Entities on NASDAQ, and now running Iron Key Capital gives him a vantage point that covers company building from first idea through public markets. The founders who navigate this area well tend to internalize the principles described in the key takeaways above and apply them consistently rather than situationally.
"Write the piece you wish you had been able to read five years ago."