The title wasn’t clickbait. If you don’t even remember joining, you should probably unsubscribe. I’ll explain in a moment - but honestly, it’s Saturday. You don’t need to read long emails (same goes for Sunday, Monday, or whenever you’re opening this).

It’s funny how often people equate success with happiness.
Even funnier how others swear success ruins happiness.

The truth? Flexible. Neither happiness nor success is stable. Both shift with perspective. You can be a “successful” writer with no money - happy from good reviews, unhappy from everyday life. You can be a wealthy entrepreneur - celebrated in public, yet restless and lonely in private. Or a parent - exhausted and broke, but feeling profoundly successful every time your child laughs.

Tolstoy wrote: “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Newsletters are the opposite.
All successful ones look alike - promising transformation, proof, and techniques (for a symbolic monthly fee).
All unsuccessful ones look alike too - they just give up earlier.

To be honest, most people who write newsletters don’t really know what they’re talking about. That’s not a criticism - it’s just the nature of the space. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an artist, a Web3 degen, or an AI enthusiast, the pressure is always the same: promise easy success. But real success doesn’t work like that - and it certainly doesn’t come packaged in courses or tutorials.

That’s not to say learning isn’t valuable. Every bit of knowledge matters. But in real life, the real trick is staying flexible, adapting constantly, and hoping for that one lucky break that turns effort into something sustainable.

And that’s what this newsletter will be about: real life. Because that’s where the actual fun begins.

So here’s the reboot: unsubscribe if you want.

If you stay, it won’t be digests, advice lists, or epic techniques.
Just life. Just stories.

Goodbye or welcome note - either way, I wish you an epic day.

Singer