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Previously on Phil’s Newsletter: My grandmother died. It sucks.
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Hey folks, long story short the next edition of my newsletter (Volume 2 Issue 1) will come to you on Monday and we’ll be doing Mondays for all Phil’s Newsletters for awhile.
A reasonable question at this juncture would be “Why?”
Well, I like my newsletter, but I’ve found I like writing it less and less. It’s become a thing I have to rush to get done for Friday mornings, which stresses me out, makes me feel like I’m not doing “real work,” and therefore kinda makes me avoid doing it due to various Brain Worms I have that I’ll never be able to afford to have diagnosed or treated.
Plus a core aspect of Phil’s Newsletter is that it is produced just-in-time, as a way to help me mark what I’ve done, seen, and thought this week up to the minute I publish. It’s a personal review of my time that I do in public. I’ve found over the year(s) that I actually need way more time to think about recent events than this, and so the actual quality of my writing has suffered as a result.
Additionally, telling people about events that happen next week on the Friday before is a total waste of time in terms of getting them to show up. It’s both too close and too far away to be useful. I’m thinking it is better to give people a head’s up on Monday for the thing happening later that week (or ideally, two Mondays advance warning).
So for all of these reasons, we’re trying out Mondays. For the first Monday issue you can expect a piece about fixing my awful calendar / time management habits, ways I tried to fix them in 2021, and what did and did not work. We’re gonna work thru it.
Also I bought a shit ton of old video game stuff, and a couple new guitar pedals. It’s becoming a problem… unless you like old video games and guitars a lot. I do. We’ll talk about it Monday.
— Phil Nelson
Wizard Tower Gamma, South of Market, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Earth
01.21.2022
P.S. My birthday is on Feb 1st. If you wanna buy me something here is my Amazon wishlist