#001 - A new beginning

My new newsletter on emerging tech & solopreneurship

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Hey 👋

Over the last five years, there were 503 of you who were gracious enough to subscribe to my email newsletter and invite me into your inbox. For that, I am grateful.

I proceeded to never send out a single email 😂

With Twitter’s recent announcement to shut down Revue (my previous newsletter provider) and 2023 around the corner, I thought this would be a good time for all of us to clean up our inboxes.

Before you hit that “unsubscribe” button, let’s try this out…

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Things I want to focus on in 2023…

• Marketing & writing skills

  • Consistent newsletter, blog, and Twitter updates

  • Learn more about SEO, notably Programmatic SEO

• Gamification

  • I love the impact that gamification techniques have on human psychology

  • I’ve been brainstorming a micro-saas idea related to this topic

• Web 2.5

  • Much has been made of “web3”, but I think people greatly underestimate how much society depends on the trust that centralization provides

  • I plan to utilize a new library called MetaFab to share ideas I have on this

• A.I. Writing & Artwork

  • If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed that I’ve spent the NFT bear market playing around with this amazing new tech

  • I’m currently building imgine.io as I experiment with A.I. art generation

• Solopreneurship

  • It may have been obvious based on the tagline of this newsletter, but this minimalist approach to running businesses intrigues me

  • I’m nearing the end of my most recent 5-year plan and think this topic is going to play an important role over my next five years.

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Favorite Tweet of the week…

Alex Cohen @anothercohen

AI is going to put the cooking blogs out of business

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Now Streaming…

While on vacation this week we managed to finish the latest season of Yellowstone, all ten episodes of 1883, and just started the first episode of 1923.

I love the approach that Taylor Sheridan and team are taking with these shows. With streaming providers constantly looking for new ways to put their intellectual property to work, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw more of this over the next couple of years.

Random Facts: Taylor Sheridan graduated from Texas State University (40 minutes south of my house) and was inducted to the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2021.

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I would love to hear from you!

Each newsletter I want to ask a question to make this a little more interactive. If you have a minute, please reply to this email or leave a comment below.

Q: What is one thing that you are currently excited about?