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Hello!

If you’re reading this message, then I am inside your computer!

And I may have been here, sending you stuff, for awhile.

Maybe you found me on blogspot or Twitter in 2006, or in my email newsletter in the early 2010s, or on Facebook, never.

Or maybe you found me all over again recently, on Substack, like this guy, whose email I opened yesterday during my 212th daily check of my inbox.

However you got here, here you are;)

This is Substack, and this is 2024, and things are changing.

First up, I’m writing again. I didn’t do that for a year more than a year. Life threw some Grade F curveballs, I didn’t want to, blah blah blah TOO LONG DIDN’T READ.

But that’s all in the rearview mirror now, and not in some sort of concerning dissociated fugue state kind of way.

I’m back! And as you’ve seen around here in the past few months, I’m back to what I did for those many years.

The online typing of it all.

I couldn’t be more glad.

And now I am here to make an announcement!

Now listen, if change isn’t your thing, don’t worry.

This announcement is not one of those heavy iron-y irons they used to use in the olden days, which could knock a person dead with one errant swing.

it’s called an iron because it was made of iron! the fun 2024 usage of this perilous device of death is door stopping.

This announcement is a gentle one.

That’s because nothing about this newsletter is going to change if you don’t want it to. I will be here, clicking the little buttons.

But, if you do like a teensy bit of change… well then, here’s your invitation!

The invitation is to pay for this newsletter with your cash money.

Let’s not mince words. That is the invitation.

Here’s why:

Paying for this newsletter is supporting my work!

Because this here newsletter is work. It’s also fun, but fun can be work, and work can be fun.

Also, there are benefits.

Oh, the benefits.

To extol you on the MAXIMUM LEVEL benefits of upgrading your free subscription to a paid one, I have made you a Pro and Con list.

PROS

• support my work (see above)

• get 1-2 extra posts per month

• read and participate in subscriber threads

• have access to the whole archive of past posts!

• get access to 100 video interviews with experts on leadership and mentoring from my past online Success Mentor Summit. Think: Ken Blanchard, Adam Grant,

  Jeff Goins
  , Ally Fallon, Ruth Soukup, Chandler Bolt, Jessica Turner, and many more!

• get access to 45+ video interviews on productivity and working well with the star-studded cast of my past online Work by Design Summit. Think: Jon Acuff, Donald Miller,

  Chris Guillebeau
  , Pam Slim,
  Tsh Oxenreider
  and many more!

CONS

• dollars

Ready to do it?

Not convinced?

Here is an image of two post it notes, one stuck slightly on top of the other to indicate a fluid canvas, aided by a tragic line dividing them, taken with the visible hand shadow of the camera-taking-arm itself, to better aid in your decision.

Still not convinced?

This is the part of the sales page where I show you some testimonials.

Reader, I runneth over with testimonials.

There’s my mother, for one.

Illuminate! My mother’s life!

Then there’s my father.

Not sure what he’s on about, but it goes without saying that neither of them paid full price.

Then there are the friends of my mother and father, who’ve also been pulled into the racket.

But are there other people here? Other people who aren’t blood or blood adjacent?

There are, reader, there are.

But they are normal and nice and kind and not as funny.

I will leave you with this one, though, which I would like to tattoo on my heart.

YOU’LL KNOW WHY, READER.

YOU’LL KNOW WHY.

Ready for it? To find your pennies? Click here.

If not, that’s 1,000,000% cool too.

After all, there’s a cardinal rule around here.

You do you!