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Hi, today I added an update to this two-year-old post and in the spirit of "shipping fast" I published it without spending too much time on editing. Let me know if you find typos, have questions that the post doesn't answer, or if something in the post doesn't hold water.

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You know...I’ve never thought of shipping fast as being applicable to blogging. In some ways my blog posts fall victim to the “waterfall” development model and never end up shipping. Thank you for helping me think of that in this way.

That's exactly the problem I used to have. So I decided to just publish an MVP and then iterate on it later if a) I have something more to add, or b) the post starts getting a lot of attention. In this case both are true, so here I am touching it up on the fly.

For me it's an issue of "If I had time I'd have written a shorter letter".

Random question while I/we have your attention: I noticed you changed your homepage pretty dramatically to a "less designed" version (but more direct). It looks great. Is that showing you better results or are you still in the midst of experimenting?

PS - hi! :)

Hey Noah :)

Glad you think so. I haven't tested it because conversion volume is so low (going for quality > quantity). I opted for the simple site so that:

a) I don't spend time/money on designing or nitpicking, which can turn into a real time-suck for me.

b) It loads super fast. I'm using Netlify for static hosting.

c) Reader's attention is focused on the copy.

awesome, and makes sense. maybe the subject of a future blog post :) thanks and stay well!

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