Justyna Dorsz

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Our Cat Book – Newsletter

I made a new landing page, just with a subscribe button, using ConvertKit. ConvertKit is a service that lets you collect e-mail addresses and send newsletters.

If you want to subscribe to our newsletter about our cat book you can do it here.

ConvertKit is an alternative to Mailchimp, which I had always used before. This is the first time I’ve used ConvertKit instead of Mailchimp. Mostly I just want to see how are they different and test which one is better.

I can already tell you that ConvertKit is very easy to use. I created a landing page to let people subscribe to a newsletter about our cat book in less than 5 minutes. If you have any kind of project/book/game/whatever-else-you-are-working-on, it’s a good idea to start collecting the e-mail addresses of anyone who might be interested as soon as possible. You can go to ConvertKit and create an account — for free! — and then create a page in mere minutes. Good luck!

I would love to see anything you guys are working on, let me know here in the comments or on Twitter.

The Imperfectionist

A few weeks ago I subscribed to yet another newsletter called The Imperfectionist. It’s written by Oliver Burkeman.

There have so far — since I subscribed — been just 3 emails sent, but it feels like each one is tailored to me. I know it sounds ridiculous — but I swear, each one answered one of the issues that I struggled with at the moment.

The first one, titled “How to make writing less hard” had 3 tips on writing. Even if you aren’t subscribed to the newsletter, you can view the email online.

The second one, “Are we there yet?”, starts with a story about Sam Harris, I am going to quote it here:

Sam Harris recalls being in the middle of a long session of moaning to a friend, about all the crap he was dealing with at the time, when she interrupted him. “Hold on,” she said (or words to this effect). “Are you still under the illusion that you’ll one day reach a point in your life where you no longer have any problems?”

It’s like it’s directed at me. I have always thought that once I am more disciplined and organized and finish some of my projects that drag on, I will have it finally all under control. It has only recently occurred to me that I will maybe never be in a state where I have everything figured out.

It reminded me of a tweet I once saw:

And the latest mail, sent yesterday, was about constantly having too many things to read, it’s called “Too many needles”.

The Imperfectionist is one of my favorite newsletters now. You can subscribe here if you want.