Boundless #29 How to get people to open a newsletter? Share your income 🤣

How to get people to open a newsletter? Share your income 🤣

Nov 27, 2018

#1 Yay, Action!

1/ Shirt Design
After my e-mail last week, I got several responses about people dealing with perfectionism. One respondent even took the e-mail as an excuse to take action, saying "After reading your newsletter I went ahead and posted the Sweatshirts on my online store and on my social media." Turns out she has some pretty bad-ass creative skills. This one is probably my favorite:

I love when this happens! Check out her store here or on Instagram. Helping others take action like this is emerging as something I am really enjoying. If you are working on something, let me know how I can help!

2/ Shipping
Another friend, after reading Linchpin by Seth Godin (one of my favorites), decided it was time to "ship" and take his photography seriously. You can follow him here: @ervphotos

#2 Cash Money

While I got a number of e-mails about perfectionism, only one person said anything about my financials. But holy-moly did you guys click through like maniacs (75+ people took a peek). It appears that knowing someone's earnings is highly intriguing, yet something still awkward to talk about. Kate MacFarland said it best in the slack group:

"In general, I like the idea of greater public disclosure. The fact that it is taboo to talk about one's salary, just as it is taboo to ask after a person's weight or age, suggests that it is a number that most of us take very personally -- much too personally -- as if it were a measure of our self-worth. In reality, salary is about a good of a measure of self-worth as a phone number or street address. In other words, it might as well be a string of random or arbitrary digits."

In general, multiple people concluded that discosure or non-disclosure isn't the big deal, but again Kate puts it best:

"What attracts me, perhaps, is not disclosure per se, but the type of society in which disclosure of salary information would naturally be considered acceptable"

Right on.

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#3 Question Of The Week

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#4 Podcast

The podcast took a vacation this week, but check out one of my favorite episodes with Andrew Taggart, which could best be described as a meditation on work.

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#5 Quotes

Rebecca Solnit's Field Guide To Getting Lost is an amazing collection of essays. Here are a couple of quotes that jumped off the page:

"I’ve found out that the wish the plane would do an emergency landing in one of them is widespread among those who go from city to city on their work. These nameless places awaken a desire to be lost, to be far away, a desire for that melancholy wonder that is the blue of distance."

“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.”

#6 Reads

Five #goodreads This Week: Weekly Reads #98

Past Reads: Why we need to embrace the gift economy

Podcast: Peter Attias 3+ hour interview of Anton Apolo Ohno was fascinating, including how he thinks about training, performance, reinventing himself after dedicating his life to speed skating, learning and more.