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Writing online without collecting emails is like playing Monopoly, passing GO, and not collecting $200...Trying to build an online audience without an email list is a rookie mistake...My email list is my most underrated asset.

As these strategies develop, I expect that the growth metrics underlying the most successful Consumer SaaS companies will come to resemble those of the most successful Enterprise SaaS companies — specifically, a material portion of growth for the outperformers will be attributed to negative churn.

Beyond Patreon and Memberful, there are a handful of music-specific options on the market. Bandcamp allows subscriptions, but only a few labels like Topshelf Records and Tiny Engines have enabled the feature. Withfriends focuses on memberships for brick-and-mortar small businesses, and counts venues and promoters like Elsewhere and AdHoc as custome... See more

What will the use of this technology encourage me to notice?

We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

One of the quieter casualties of these pandemic months is dedicated space. Hospitals, grocery stores, and warehouses have held on to clear functions, but for everything else, there’s your apartment. Confinement leads to a kind of versatility; it means we figure out how to use the same room to work and raise kids and play and sleep, the same ingredi... See more

So the first lesson is not to despair at reading these stories. They are excellent inspirational material, but poor instructional manuals. The second is, even though we see it in movies and read about it in magazines it’s not necessary to imbue forced significance on to any particular event or idea as it happens – many successful people didn’t reco... See more