Exploring the stepping stones nearby, I found one which suited my interests and was something I would use - making an Obsidian plugin to publish long-form content seamlessly to Nostr (this essay came from that!). From there, I saw the potential for writers on Nostr; keep your audience, monetise easily, no platform dependency or lock-in, content ownership - the perfect place to publish. Then, the next stepping stone came into view - I decided to start publicly sharing some work I had written. This was something I'd wanted to do for a while but had never found the courage to do so. As the audience and visibility on Nostr is low today it helped me click publish and get off the mark - another serendipity on this trail of stepping stones! Finally, I'd discovered some long-form Nostr clients and enjoyed reading articles and posts on them. On Nostr, you can publish short-form Twitter like messages or long-form material; essays, blogs posts, reviews, op-eds, etc. The next stepping stone came into view - maybe I could build a long-form Nostr client that curated and displayed content in a novel way.