One email. Every Thursday. Nothing else.
Field notes from wherever I am, the tech I'm actually using that week, and one researched explainer. Roughly a six-minute read. Written by me, every week, with no team and no schedule filler.
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Three sections, same every week.
Where I am
What's working and what isn't, logistically. Connectivity, costs, the thing that went wrong on Tuesday.
What I'm using
One tool, workflow or automation — including the ones I've killed and why they didn't survive.
One explainer
A researched answer to something I got asked. Same standard as the long posts, shorter.
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Everything eventually gets published here — subscribers just get it first, and get the parts I'm not confident enough to put on the site.