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Why Is My Newsletter Open Rate So Low?

Click-tracking software puts an invisible pixel at the end of the newsletter template, but Gmail will partially hide your email if the content is too long and require the user to click-through in order to download and see the rest of the message, therefore never triggering tracking for emails that were not fully opened. If you have a newsletter and are seeing very low click-through rates, this might be the case, and your solution is to redesign the template to fit within Google's limits.


What's Wrong With San Francisco ?

It's a homogenous bubble where every thought you have is reinforced in the same way and you have very little chance to get any non-conforming opinion.


How Can Scissor Statements Help Us?

There is value to know that scissor statements are out there. These statements cause us to pause and realize that they are planted to divide us. Initially, it will allow us to not be fooled by them.


What Is Miasma?

It’s when someone thinks a disease is carried through smell. Back then, people thought diseases were spread by air, not by sticking unclean fingers into a bullet wound to fish a bullet out of someone.


What Are Some Challenges With Growing Employee Count?

Adding 10 more people does not make your company 10x faster, and in some cases it makes it slower, for a while. It's normal, but you have to anticipate it.


How Do You Know When You’re In Good Shape With A Problem?

If your problems are upgrading, such as productive ones or ones you’re trying to solve, then you’re on the right path to where you want to end up. As you continue solving problems, you’ll have others that will arise once you get past one set of problems.


What Does Society Not Tell You About Being A Mother?

Rosie says that as a mother or parent, people like to tell you that you can have it all and it’ll be fine. She disagrees, and says that no one talks about the reality of going back to work after having kids. Sometimes when people found out that she had kids, it made it difficult for her to get a job.


What Is A Good Way To Stay Motivated While Working On A Podcast?

To stay motivated on Indie Hackers podcast, Courtland committed to releasing at least 100 episodes, and to force himself to actually do it, he named the first episode "001", thus leaving a constant remind that he wasn't done yet, at least not until the episode count hit a 100.


What Does Russ Roberts Worship?

We all have a desire to be part of something larger than ourselves, something that's transcendent in history. It. is a very powerful human urge, related to tribalism.

You can worship anything. A lot of people mistakenly worship beauty, but your beauty will fade. Others worship money, and their money does not give them true satisfaction. Sports is a worship of human effort and failure. There are a lot of options.

Religion typically helps people live a life without doubt, giving answers to all the questions of life. Russ, on the other hand, practices Judaism as a way to wonder about the mystery and the wonder of life, things we do not understand.


How Do You Get Sars Co V 2 ?

Most people would get it through their nose and throat. So somebody is sick, and they sneeze or cough, and all that virus gets fired into the air. And this is a virus that sort of lives in the little droplets that you spray out and floats around.

Now, this virus is also probably also present in blood, and it might actually might also be present in your poopy.

Mostly though you would get it through respiratory droplets. So if you also sneeze onto a surface, then all of that fluid from your disgusting upper airway goes under the surface. So if some other unfortunate person comes by, and puts their hand on on that surface and then rubs their eye or sucks their thumb or whatever it is, then they can get the virus too.

It's more infectious than flu, but it's much less infectious than something like measles. If you have measles and you go in a room with like 10 people just by breathing, the measles virus goes up in the air and it stays there for ever, and it's very infectious and you'll infect like seven out of 10 people. This one is much less infectious in that, and that's good. So you can get it from other people.


What Was Garry Tan's $200 M Mistake?

Garry shares a story about how he turned down the opportunity to start a company with his friends and Peter Thiel to stay at Microsoft and how that mistake cost him $200M.


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