💡 Warp News #200
😊 Americans satisfied with their lives. ☀️ EU will hit renewable energy targets ahead of time. 🤔 Studies: Cynics aren't smarter (they are actually the opposite). 🧬 Human Y chromosome fully sequenced for the first time.
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📈 How's it going?
In March, we did a reboot of Warp News, with the goal of preserving what worked well and fixing what didn't.
What had worked well was that many of those who discovered us became loyal readers and subscribers, and a high percentage also became paying subscribers (Premium Supporters).
The bad part was that too few knew we existed, and therefore our growth was too slow.
In March, I started writing much more of our content, giving more talks, and being more active in appearing in other media, such as in the debate about AI. My key metric became the number of subscribers to the free newsletter.
So, how's it going?
Pretty decent, actually. We have now surpassed 15,000 subscribers to the free newsletter and added over 2,000 since March. That's a bit more than double the previous growth rate. Not rocket speed, but clearly better.
This is 100 percent organic growth. No paid marketing.
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When you forward the newsletter to a friend or share something on social media, that's when we grow.
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Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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