I'm really pleased to announce the Commonplace Membership Program: commoncog.com/blog/announcin
There are a lot of cool things I'm cooking up for members over the next few months; here's to hoping that I can go all-in on production!
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I'm doing a bunch of things for members. First up are 'action sheets' — summarised, actionable 1-pagers of every blog post in Commonplace. You may view an example here: commoncog.com/blog/a/using-i, which is an action sheet for
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Second, Commonplace Guides. Think of these as 'Wirecutter, but for self-help': commoncog.com/blog/guides/
Basically: continually updated handbooks, instead of experiments and write-ups spread across many blog posts over time. I get to update one resource with whatever I learn.
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Third: the forum. I'm modelling this after the Bogleheads forum, which has a huge emphasis on 'what is personally actionable'. It's also an excuse to add comments to the blog: forum.commoncog.com
(Scroll to the bottom of every blog post — it's integrated right in!)
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Fourth: I'm offering members-only blog posts, although I'm not quite sure what that would be like. The first few posts would be about business, and about traditional moats. Then we'll see where to go from there.
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All this is to intended to give me enough freedom to write the blog and build the app; so naturally the fifth offering would be early-access to the app, plus a discount for members when I finally launch.
(Though it's probably going to be alpha software for some time.)
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I have to say that the experience of implementing the membership has been quite smooth sailing. I just used Ghost's built-in subscriptions, which integrates with Stripe, and then I hooked that up to a Discourse forum with Zapier.
All off the shelf tools. Remarkably easy.
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Egads! I forgot to link to the actual signup page: commoncog.com/blog/signup/
Sign up today, and I'll see you in the forums soon!
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