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Dean Peters's avatar

This isn’t a newsletter origin story. It’s a heroic saga of typing into the void, battling the Algorithm Kraken, and emerging with 492 loyal villagers and one tired keyboard.

You’ve unlocked:

- +10 Writing Stamina

- +5 Vulnerability Armor

- The Cloak of Steady Subscriber Growth™ (unfashionable but effective)

Next up: tame the Substack Note Gremlins and summon the Viral Post Phoenix. Godspeed.

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Polina's avatar

Haha! Love it, Dean!

On to the next quest, to improve the skill. 4000 points left till the next level :D

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Angela Langmann's avatar

I'm so glad you started writing. You are really great at it and I think people are so interested in hearing more behind the scenes Amazon stuff. You are inspiring and more people need to know about your newsletter!

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Polina's avatar

Thank you Angela! 🙏

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Dashpreet Singh's avatar

This is an excellent reflection. I’ve also started my writing journey and a lot of what has been said here resonates with me.

Writing into void can be difficult, but I too have had quiet feedback from friends and colleagues that has kept me motivated.

Subscribed to follow along your journey 👍

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Polina's avatar

Thank you Dashpreet!

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Kacper Wojaczek's avatar

Great post! Seems like we started at similar time but you grew much faster than I did, so really cut yourself some slack 😄

Also, thanks for the book recommendations, I'm definitely gonna dive into these since I'm interested in similar topics

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Polina's avatar

Thank you, Kacper!

It is not always the one who goes fastest goes the furthest, it the one who keeps going.

And I have just subscribed to your newsletter too :)

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