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1: Please, Not Another Newsletter
Welcome. At this point you probably subscribe to enough newsletters and are wondering why you should add to your overcrowded inbox.
On any given day, your average person could see 6,000 ads (conservatively)([1]. That's 42,000 ads a week and over 2.1 million ads a year. Lately, I've noticed that newsletters are particularly guilty of inundating us with advertisements when we actually subscribed for interesting content.
This newsletter will not contribute to this problem and won't be an incessant barrage of ads and marketing material for you to spend more money. There are too many newsletters out there where the sole objective is to be the marketing funnel of an online business - that is not my objective here.
We will cover a wide cross-section of seemingly unrelated topics, but always point back to a singular objective: explore high quality ideas for a high quality life. Getting there involves getting pretty deep into serious topics: Entrepreneurship, Investing, Philosophy, Psychology, Automation, History, Personal Productivity, Economics, Technology and more.
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