How I’m Testing My New Email Provider (Loops) So here’s what I did. 1. First Stop: Mail-Tester I went to mail-tester.com, grabbed the weird little temporary email address they gave me, added it to my Loops list, and sent my email. Score came back great. 9.5/10. Huge win. 2. Then I Tried My Personal Gmail I added my own personal email to the Loops list because I wanted to see where it actually lands in a real inbox. ...
so simple, so good.
there’s a difference! Because this blog right now is still an infant, and literally I think only three people have ever even been given the link, I am able to be much more sensitive to the shifting experience of writing it as more people become aware of it. for example: i shared it with Michael Dean last week (Michael if you’re reading this, which you probably are cuz i’ll probably send it to you, hi!). ...
this is, strangely, a huge deal. or not strangely, but just interestingly given how common of a thing that is. everyone is posting onto youtube all the time. and yet for me it felt impossible. until now (dramatic) i decided to run an experiment this morning at about 530am - could i record and publish a video in 30 min. ...
Just read this awesome short essay Ramblings from Obsidian CEO Steph Agno in which he (until v recently I assumed Steph was a woman) shares how at their work they have individual channels for each person called ramblings where each person can just write out whatever stuff they’re thinking about and working on: A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice. ...
God I hope I can stick to these. The first that just came to mind is: no analytics. No knowing which posts do “best.” But isn’t that…useful? For people who come here? damn it I’m already folding like a lawn chair. well, that’s not really a problem right now - no one reads this, and I sort of want to keep it that way. well, A PART of me wants to keep it that way while another part of course wants people to read this and it grow. ...
I love collecting prompts and just found a bunch of real weird ones in a book titled Learning for people who prefer not to be taught Some prompts: Just add hot water and stir Internship Lottery Performative Artists’ Talks
ChatGPT wrote that as part of a summary of my Create a Loops email sequence experiment. And i like it. I like that idea a lot. 85% is good enough, at least for this blog. Maybe for Substack too?
ChatGPT wrote that as part of a summary of my Create a Loops email sequence experiment. And i like it. I like that idea a lot. 85% is good enough, at least for this blog. Maybe for Substack too?
“I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.” From Lily King’s “Writers and Lovers”