“Belief” | #39 – February 10, 2025

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Mon Feb 10, 2025

This is based on a memory from many years ago, when I was very young, and I encountered for the first time that there existed people in the world who held beliefs that were directly opposed to my existence. For a time afterward, my naive mind really wrestled with not being able to accept that people I’ve never met could hate another without ever meeting them – that they could judge someone based merely on characteristics they couldn’t control, instead of who they are as a person. There’s a part of me that still has trouble reconciling that discrepancy – but the above summarizes the general sentiment I arrived to upon reflection over time.

Early access February 10, 2025; published publicly February 24, 2025. 

“Questionable Marketing” | #38 – February 4, 2025

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Tue Feb 4, 2025

I was struck by how strangely personal the subject line of this email newsletter was.

I was checking my email the other day, and a subject line stood out to me. It seems to be an email marketing trend to write the subject lines in a way that’s not obviously advertising to you – almost like it’s crafted to appear as if it’s from one of your contacts. While a little amusing (it did catch my attention, after all), this kind of marketing has always felt vaguely intrusive, or insincere, or a little manipulative (or slightly more so than regular marketing is intended to manipulate you).

Early access February 4, 2025; published publicly February 17, 2025. 

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