Vibe Writing: The Voice Memo Method That's Changing How Creators Write LinkedIn Content

The Blank Page Problem

You know that feeling. You sit down to write a LinkedIn post, cursor blinking on an empty screen, and suddenly every good idea you've ever had vanishes.

It's not that you don't have things to say. You have too many things to say. Your brain is full of insights, experiences, and observations—but translating that mental swirl into coherent, engaging content feels impossible.

What if the solution isn't to write at all—at least not at first?

Enter "Vibe Writing"

John Zeratsky, founder at Character Capital and co-author of Sprint, recently shared a technique he calls "Vibe Writing"—and it's changing how creators approach content.

The method is elegantly simple:

Step 1: Record Your Thoughts

When you're working on something new, start by recording a voice memo. Don't script it. Don't structure it. Just talk.

The key insight? Do this while walking, driving, or otherwise away from your desk. There's something about being in motion that frees up your thinking. You're not staring at a screen. You're not under the pressure of a "focused" work session. You're just... thinking out loud.

Step 2: Let AI Organize

Take the entire transcript and drop it into an LLM. Give it context about what you're creating—is this for a LinkedIn post? A blog article? Internal notes?

The AI's job isn't to write for you. It's to help you see what you actually said. When you ramble for 10 minutes, the AI can extract the key themes, identify the strongest points, and organize your thoughts into something coherent.

Step 3: Rewrite (This Is Non-Negotiable)

Here's the step most people skip—and it's the most important one.

Open the AI output in one window. Open a blank document in another. Then start over, rewriting and selectively copy-pasting from the AI draft into your own document.

Why does this matter? Because this step is what separates content that sounds like you from content that sounds like everyone else using the same AI tools.

The AI gave you structure. Now you give it soul.

Why This Works So Well

This isn't just a productivity hack. There's real psychology behind why Vibe Writing produces better content:

Talking Is Easier Than Writing

When you're not sure what you want to say, speaking out loud removes the barrier of "proper writing." You don't worry about sentence structure or grammar. You just explain your idea like you're telling a friend.

Movement Unlocks Creativity

There's a reason great thinkers from Aristotle to Steve Jobs were famous for walking meetings. Physical movement activates different parts of your brain. You're literally thinking differently than when you're hunched over a keyboard.

Context Beats Prompts

Here's a crucial insight from John's approach: by providing the LLM tons of context (your entire brain dump), you avoid the generic slop that comes from prompts like "write me a LinkedIn post about X with three main points."

The AI isn't inventing ideas—it's organizing your ideas. That's a fundamentally different use case, and it produces fundamentally better results.

The Final Pass Preserves Your Voice

When you rewrite from the AI output instead of just posting it, you make thousands of micro-decisions: this word instead of that one, this phrasing instead of that one, this joke stays, that cliché goes.

Those micro-decisions are your voice. Skip this step, and you sound like everyone else. Do this step, and your content is unmistakably yours.

Adapting This for LinkedIn Content

The Vibe Writing method is especially powerful for LinkedIn because the platform rewards authenticity and insight over polish and perfection.

For Thought Leadership Posts

Voice-record your take on an industry trend. Let your raw opinions flow. The transcript will capture nuances and strong opinions that you might self-censor if you were writing carefully from the start.

For Story-Based Content

Tell the story out loud first. You'll naturally include the details and emotions that make stories compelling—things you might forget to add when you're typing.

For Educational Content

Explain the concept like you're teaching a colleague over coffee. Your natural explanations are usually clearer than your "written" explanations.

The Key Insight

John mentions that he still uses his old method—jotting notes in Google Keep throughout the day. Both approaches work. But there's something different about the "open-endedness of a long-running voice memo."

When you jot notes, you're capturing fragments. When you voice-record, you're capturing thinking. You're capturing the connections between ideas, the "oh, and another thing" moments, the tangents that sometimes turn out to be the main point.

How VibedIn Fits Into This Workflow

If you're nodding along thinking "this sounds great but also like a lot of steps," here's the good news: this is exactly the workflow VibedIn was designed to support.

1. Capture your rough ideas — voice transcript, bullet points, scattered thoughts
2. Let AI transform them — not into generic content, but into your content, trained on your style
3. Refine and publish — with full control over the final output

The best content isn't 100% AI or 100% manual. It's the intelligent combination of both—using AI for what it's good at (organizing, drafting, overcoming blank-page paralysis) while keeping humans in control of what matters most (voice, insight, authenticity).

Try It This Week

Here's your challenge: the next time you have an idea for a LinkedIn post, don't open LinkedIn. Open your voice recorder.

Talk for 3-5 minutes about what you're thinking. Don't worry about structure. Just explain it like you're telling a friend.

Then bring that transcript into your writing process—whether that's through VibedIn or your own workflow.

You might be surprised how much easier it is to write when you've already said what you want to say.

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