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The streak is broken, and I'm OK with it
I launched this newsletter almost a month ago, with the goal of publishing something every day (ok, technically, every weekday)
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A robot wrote this email
Well, half of it anyway
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My pandemic experience to date
I heard someone remark recently that one of the things the pandemic has taken from us is some of the shared sense of struggle or difficulty that a…
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How Bon Iver taught me to stop trying to be creative
The value of creating space, showing up, and paying attention
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Could you delete your email account?
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.- Henry David Thoreau
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What if we each thrived by default?
Is individual scarcity an inviolable rule of nature?
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Ryan Waggoner
Loving this
Last weekend, my wife and daughter and I all went to the park here in NYC. It was a beautiful day, clear, sunny, and breezy. I was sitting on a grassy…
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Forget 1000 true fans. Start with 1.
The first edition of newsletter² — a newsletter about newsletters — goes live tomorrow.
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Stop mistreating your customers, please.
Why dark patterns always lose to light patterns in the long run
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This one weird trick boosted my traffic by 86,700%
(spoiler: it was the headline, and that stat is bogus)
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No, I won't read your amateur COVID-19 "research review"
Even good arguments in a bad context encourage bad thinking
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Rethinking this newsletter
I've already gone in the wrong direction...
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Ryan Waggoner
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