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Action. It’s the action you need to take — the writing. My writing starts with an outline, in which I define the headings. Once that’s determined, filling in the blanks gets easier. I set the environment beforehand: background music to focus, some water next to me, and a clean desk.

Cue. It starts the habit. In my case, I like to do it in the morning after having coffee. This way, my mind has slowly associated finishing breakfast with writing. After some time, it gets automatic.

Every aspiring writer has a good idea of what they would like to achieve: millions of views, a steady source of income, loyal fans, and being published in popular magazines. Some even dream bigger and aspire to build an online writing empire.

However, first, you must overcome a long list of challenges. You need to learn multiple skills, change your routine, improve your work, and deal with rejection, to name a few.

But this is not just a shipping boom — it’s a war. Amazon, the creator of one- and two-day delivery of everything from groceries to books and furniture, is now out to dominate shipping too. At a time when U.S. and European regulators are filing more and more antitrust cases against Amazon, the e-commerce giant is getting its machine ready, talking of taking over cavernous mall spaces formerly occupied by Sears and J.C. Penney, and converting them to fulfillment centers close to customers. It has leased 12 Boeing 767s, creating a fleet of more than 80 aircraft.

For instance, reading a book for 10 hours a day for one week doesn’t make you an avid reader. But reading for 30 minutes every day for ten years does. It’s not about being too intense about something. Instead, success requires consistency.

“What, me worry?” seems to be a highly risky strategy. But when watching Amazon, the impression is less indifference than the conviction that shipping dominance is worth almost any risk.

There is dissonance in this picture: The Trump Justice Department’s antitrust division has been aggressive. The Biden Administration is expected to be as tough or tougher. The European Union is not letting up on Amazon. Yet judging by its behavior, Big Tech thinks it’s business as usual.

This is a calculus of Amazon’s own making: If it is in a fix, feeling it must always up its shipping game and now capture the commanding heights of yet another industry, it’s because it itself created unusual — and perhaps unreasonable — customer expectations. But now, if in doing so it gets tripwired by the Justice Department or the EU, it has no one else to blame.

It’s a woman-owned and organized competition. Wife-carrying started in 793 AD after Vikings raided villages on the Island of Lindisfarne off the coast of England. Allegedly, they killed the men and made off with their women, carrying them over their heads. Back then, it was referred to as ‘wife-stealing’ which has, understandably, been rebranded.

This is a calculus of Amazon’s own making: If it is in a fix, feeling it must always up its shipping game and now capture the commanding heights of yet another industry, it’s because it itself created unusual — and perhaps unreasonable — customer expectations. But now, if in doing so it gets tripwired by the Justice Department or the EU, it has no one else to blame.

This is the opposite of laying low. As David H. Freedman writes this week in Marker, Amazon, in the case of shipping, has needled what might have stacked up as an ordinary rivalry into something nasty. Reminiscent of the ruthless shenanigans that led to the Supreme Court’s watershed 1911 breakup of Standard Oil, Amazon last Christmas season banned merchants from using FedEx to ship their goods.