Unfortunately, I won’t be able to publish a full post this week, so I’m going to use one of my vacation days.
I’m working on several mega posts that I’m really excited to share with you. And I think it’s worth the extra time to get them right rather than rush something out just to stick to the schedule.
But I still want to leave you with something. So, today, I share two things:
#1 personal lesson learned since starting the newsletter
# of paid subscribers this newsletter has so far
#1 Lesson On Paid Newsletters
Writing a paid newsletter is a constant tension between two forces:
One tension is sticking to a schedule that subscribers can count on.
The other tension is focusing on quality no matter how long it takes.
Over the last 10 years, I’ve focused 100% on quality, and I only published a few posts per year. As a result of this strategy, my average article on Medium had 150,000+ views. But this strategy also had downsides:
Not regularly staying in touch with readers
Throwing away most of my re…