Congratulations! I am fairly close to doing a year of weekly posts and have found it a transformative experience. One thing I notice is that only about 10-15% of readers ever click links and reading your post makes me extremely reluctant to click myself out of the flow of the piece, but I find it valuable to add links for my own sense of bringing the project together. Curious about to your experience
Thank you! I know what you mean about links. I like to add them in part because they add color and break the monotony a bit, and because they're useful as references. And the point you make about bringing a project together is true too. It's helpful to me sometimes to go back to something I wrote precisely to something I linked to. But you're right, I don't click them when reading someone else's piece, and I think that's fine.
First: congratulations! I did an experiment to make 100 daily podcasts and did almost 400, so, well, I really hope you continue with your quest — NO PRESSURE.
I really enjoy your writing in many ways and would love to keep reading you — NO PRESSURE — even though I'm not 100% sure how I came to be here and how your writing came to me.
Now, every time your newsletter hits my inbox, I instantly read it. NO PRESSURE, but you are a clear recomendation to anyone that never subscribed anything before. Kind of "I want to be like Étienne when I grow up" — but, hey, NO PRESSURE.
Congratulations! I am fairly close to doing a year of weekly posts and have found it a transformative experience. One thing I notice is that only about 10-15% of readers ever click links and reading your post makes me extremely reluctant to click myself out of the flow of the piece, but I find it valuable to add links for my own sense of bringing the project together. Curious about to your experience
Thank you! I know what you mean about links. I like to add them in part because they add color and break the monotony a bit, and because they're useful as references. And the point you make about bringing a project together is true too. It's helpful to me sometimes to go back to something I wrote precisely to something I linked to. But you're right, I don't click them when reading someone else's piece, and I think that's fine.
Very relatable this! And congrats on keeping up.
First: congratulations! I did an experiment to make 100 daily podcasts and did almost 400, so, well, I really hope you continue with your quest — NO PRESSURE.
I really enjoy your writing in many ways and would love to keep reading you — NO PRESSURE — even though I'm not 100% sure how I came to be here and how your writing came to me.
Now, every time your newsletter hits my inbox, I instantly read it. NO PRESSURE, but you are a clear recomendation to anyone that never subscribed anything before. Kind of "I want to be like Étienne when I grow up" — but, hey, NO PRESSURE.
So, please, keep writing.
NO PRESSURE.
Congrats, Étienne! I’ve enjoyed reading your posts and watching your style evolve over the past 1.92 years. Keep going!
Thanks Lyle. You've been an inspiration this whole time!
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Félicitations on your 100th post! Your posts are consistently delightful yet consistently consistent. Not many bloggers can manage both!
Thank you! Going to try to remain consistently both these things :)
Your work, and particularly your aesthetic, is greatly inspiring. I hope I have the pleasure of reading your work for a long time to come.
Thanks! I'm glad you like the aesthetic (and glad I found an aesthetic I like myself)
Ditto. This was very relatable. You’ve captured the tension between creative freedom and creative discipline Etienne!
Also this art is incredible!!!
Yay nice to see that my efforts at picking 2 good pieces of art each week are appreciated :)
I’m seriously obsessing. Lost down a Rousseau Wikipedia rabbit hole rn.....
Congratulations on this milestone and growing links to 2 years of readers through your words!