Ali's weekly email newsletter (2018)
project history · status: last documented in 2020 · last event: milestone (2020-04-29) · owner: Ali
Parts: Ali promises to keep writing his weekly email newsletter forever (2018)
About: Revue, Sunday Snippets
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-14 (happened 2018-04) | launched | About five weeks before the video Ali started using Revue to set up a weekly email newsletter, which he sends out every Sunday morning. | Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal 00:00:29 |
| 2018-05-14 | milestone | Ali's weekly email newsletter goes to about 650 people, a number he calls ridiculously large. | Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal 00:03:01 |
| 2018-08-30 | milestone | For almost five months Ali has sent his weekly email newsletter every Sunday without fail, with a snippet of life advice or something he learned that week and links to interesting things. | Monthly Favourites #6 - Ali Abdaal 00:14:21 |
| 2018-12-08 | milestone | From around April 2018 Ali decided to write his weekly email newsletter every Sunday and has not missed one since, because once he set that system it stopped being optional. | Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A 00:02:56 |
| 2019-07-26 | milestone | Ali's weekly email newsletter, with a few paragraphs on productivity, links to articles, podcasts and videos and a Kindle highlight of the week, has about 9,000 subscribers. | How I Manage my Time as a Doctor + YouTuber - 9 Time Management Tips 00:13:06 |
| 2019-10-19 | milestone | Ali used to start each Sunday's newsletter from a blank slate, taking an hour or two; drawing on his resonance calendar, the latest issue took about 20 minutes. | How I use Notion as a Resonance Calendar 00:10:57 |
| 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) | milestone | Ali's email newsletter grew from maybe 4,000 subscribers a year earlier to 18,000. (hedged) | My Annual Review using Notion 00:04:53 |
| 2020-01-14 | milestone | Ali thinks his weekly email newsletter, Sunday Snippets, is at issue 95. (hedged) | My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) 00:05:05 |
| 2020-04-29 | milestone | Ali has sent his weekly Sunday email newsletter for 108 weeks without fail, probably the best habit he has started: writing brings ideas, publishing brings feedback and an audience, and it connected him with Noah. (hedged) | Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive 00:44:28 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali says Revue suits a personal newsletter: links are easy to add, it builds a profile page with all past issues, and its fixed design spares him worrying whether his newsletter looks good enough. — 00:01:51
- 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: On a day you cannot study, Ali advises asking what your goal is and whether a break is consistent with it: if it is, take a break; if not, battle through, as he wrote in his latest newsletter. — 00:21:27
- 2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali: Following Gary Vaynerchuk's idea of one main pillar of content, Ali makes YouTube his main pillar, with his email newsletter and blog as offshoots. — 00:20:07
- 2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali's second newsletter email, Motivation is a myth, gives his thoughts on motivation with links to articles he returns to, including one called "Screw motivation, what you need is discipline". (hedged) — 01:04:38
- 2018-06-17 · Monthly Favourites #5 - Ali Abdaal — Ali is trying to take inspiration from Seth Godin's writing for his own weekly email newsletter. — 00:05:15
- 2019-01-20 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps — recommendation: Ali writes his weekly email newsletters and blog posts in Ulysses: it supports Markdown and different styles, and he finds it a distraction-free pleasure to write in. — 00:05:07
- 2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — Ali struggles to write a blog post and his email newsletter every week, while Seth Godin writes a blog post every day. — 00:06:57