At the intersection of being an entrepreneur and a dad

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Wow! It just dawned on me today that it's been three years that I've been doing this newsletter. Started April 2020 right after COVID lockdown, and I was at rasa.io in the day-to-day. I felt like on one hand I needed to better understand our product and use it as I talked about it with others. So that was one catalyst.

But the other was I found myself being just less and less interested in social media. I was kind of getting a little jaded on it, but I still wanted a way to keep in touch with people and keep people updated on what I had going on. The idea of email was intriguing to me with a list that I own as opposed to the recommendation algorithms of Facebook and Instagram determining who gets to see what. An email list is something that goes to everybody. So I started doing that, and as I am on three years now, on this anniversary of doing it, I'm thinking more about

Why am I doing it?
Who's it for?
What am I trying to get out there? What's the content?

And I think I'm getting to this point of narrowing in on this intersection of me being an entrepreneur and being a dad. It's interesting. I continue to be amazed at all the things I've learned from entrepreneurship that pertain to being a dad, and the things I've picked up along the way being a dad that helped me out with being an entrepreneur.

So I think this newsletter is more like a road trip than it is a final destination for me. It's one of those things that the the journey kind of is the destination if you will (and to be a little cliche). I appreciate you guys being along with it. It's just like a road trip in that it's always more fun to have people join you and ride along than going by yourself. What this is the lessons learned along the way.

As I get more into that space of narrowing in on the content, I'm also going to make a few other changes like the website and where this links to and things like that. But hey - if it gets to a point where you're like "I'm not really interested anymore, this isn't for me" - no hard feelings! Unsubscribe. Don't bear through it if you're not getting anything out of it. I wouldn't keep doing this if I wasn't getting anything out of it. But if you do decide to stick around, I very much appreciate it. I appreciate the little bit of attention that you are giving to me by watching this, by reading the newsletter. I can assure you that the journey will be interesting. There will be lots of twists and turns, and I appreciate you being along for the ride.

So until next time, I hope you're good, and I'll catch you on the other side.